Marc Andreesen on AI
2023-07-10 11:08 AM
Using AI LLMs prompt: “adopt the persona of an expert in X”
Write in the style of the twitter account
Religion
Nearly all of the people advancing the eschatological view of AI are atheists. Without realizing it, they are essentially developing their own new religion, much of it based on the Christian culture from which they come.
Joe Rogan
2023-07-27 3:00 PM
Marc Andreesen kinda likes the conspiracy theory stuff because it makes life interesting. He describes how the Bay Area, centered on San Francisco, has long been a hangout of the most extreme people on both the creative and the whacko side. Even the Manhattan Project got much of its intellectual firepower from here.
Laurel Canyon is a place in Los Angeles where the Hippie Movement began, and (coincidentally?) where nuclear test site documentaries were filmed.
Marc Andreeson and Lex Fridman:
2023-06-22 7:45 AM
- There is a fine line between creativity and hallucination. A law firm uses GPT to brainstorm potential legal approaches, of course double-checking all the references before turning it into a brief.
- AI-generated content might improve the quality of the web, by exploring the space of ideas that haven’t been fully uncovered. This is similar to how AI-generated content helps improve auto-driving datasets, by filling in missing features.
Re: falling trust in institutions, imagine past events unfolding differently if they’d had our modern media. He doesn’t mention Martin Gurri’s ideas, but this fits well.
Millenarianism is a core part of western culture. Much of the AI Doomerism comes straight out of that C.S. Lewis’ observation that the “God-shaped hole in every human heart” drives us to demand that there be a reason to our existence.
“models are not scientific” because there are no hypotheses, no falsifiability, no experiments, etc.
The COVID response is a case in point: policymakers panicked when so-called scientists presented them with big scary models, all of which turned out to be completely wrong.
recommends the [book] When Reason Goes on Holiday
When Reason Goes on Holiday: Philosophers in Politics by Neven Sesardic “After you read this book, you won’t look at Einstein the same way again”.