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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Nick Bostrom's advertising his new book about what if AIs let us sleep until noon and wouldn't that be grand.

A reddit ad: "What if things go right? A winter wonderland glittering with possibilities for discovery and play. Delve into the possibilities of artificial intelligence in Deep Utopia, by New York Times best selling authro Nick Bostrom. Available Now."

Also call me paranoid, but "A winter wonderland glittering with possibilities for discovery and play" sounds exactly like the sort of thing an LLM might generate.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Also there was a whole thing about how CGTP tends to use 'delve' a lot because it's been RLHF'd by speakers of nigerian english, so yeah.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Outright millenarianism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Bostrom yearns for retirement/unemployment the book.