Wait, if im recalling right a former StopAI activist went on the run after threatening an OpenAI lab and causing it to shut down, it mentions the suspect has threatened an OpenAI lab before so could it be the same guy??

oh cool, a racist wacko. yay…

Well this is out now, and I’m surprised to announce the ratings went down from 7.5 from 7.1 on imdb and only 60/100 on Metacritic, though there are only 9 critic reviews and 5 user reviews, which itself is surprising for being so little. Rotten Tomatoes is higher, but only 38 critic reviews and over 50 ratings. I’m surprised it seems to be so unpopular, I thought it’d be blowing up with hundreds of ratings

Damn, that is way, way bigger than I thought

The other guy is probably right that its a case of AI fanatics using chatbots to summarise what its about without actually engaging with it in any meaningful way (liking and commenting)

well thats fucking depressing to think about. You’re probably right tho

Thank you for your rigorous scientific studying stranger

Hooray…still thinking about how apparently the OpenAI and Anthropic PR teams were impressed with this doc, which is a pretty clear indicator of what it’s going to be like

the reviews on imdb have dropped a bit (from 8.3 down to 7.5) but that’ll probably change when the full thing drops

Also is it just me or does the trailer have a suspiciously large views vs likes ratio? 5.6mil views with only 6.7K likes? is that the norm for documentaries?

but right now it doesn’t feel like LW is a place where I can collaboratively make intellectual progress on this very important topic.

Maybe that’s because people don’t feel comfortable when you say you should teach an AI race/iq pseudoscience???

Damn, she went in on Yud (not that he doesn’t deserve it)

I also found this article about the doc in the replies of that post https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/a-tale-of-two-ai-documentaries/ and it’s a very interesting read

I poked around the IMDB page, and there are reviews! currently it’s sitting at a 8.5/10 with 31 ratings (though no written reviews it seems like) the metacritic score is a 51/100 with 4 reviews and there are 4 external reviews

Sam Altman and the other CEOS being there is such a joke “this technology is so dangerous guys! of course I’m gonna keep blocking regulation for it, I need to make money after all!” Also, I’m shocked Emily Bender and Timmit Gebru are there, aren’t they AI skeptics?

Surprised it’s a term they stole and not one they made up. But yeah the whole idea of “AGI will solve all our problems” is just silly

also, what the fuck does “apocaloptimist” mean??? does it mean he’s optimistic about our chances of apocalypse??? (which makes no sense, just say pessimist) has he finally gone crazy and is now saying that apocalypse is the optimistic outcome?

my god I just cringed so hard. I thought the book would be the end….

Also yeah, someone pointed this out on old SneerClub but Yud loves using kids to illustrate his AI fears, and to beat a very dead horse here that’s a weird thing to do in his case

If anyone here wants to jump on the grenade and watch it/acquire a transcript for the rest of us to sneer at you’ll be my hero

what is with the “uhm actually its ephebophilia and not pedophilia” thing?? (Yud’s done it too in a weird ass post that was highlighted here) you’re still having sex with someone who is still legally considered a child as a middle-aged man. jesus

“It’s horrifying to see normal people you dance with turn into nazis so easily.”

…you’re calling the people who hate the billionaires nazis? have you seen what the average billionaire has gotten up to recently???

with the current state of billionaires that was to be expected

bootlicking billionaires when they’re the main ones supporting the thing you say is an existential threat is definitely a choice. rationalists seem to be getting more and more mask off in the face of the trump administration

For someone who calls himself “genre savy” I have to ask why Eliezer and the EAs/rationalists keep getting played

LMFAOO THIS IS GOLD