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content that has been ruthlessly optimized to attack someone else’s brain is going to increasingly look like unwatchable gibberish to you but that doesn’t mean your content isn’t waiting in the wings. your hole will be made for you
There is truly nothing about this cruddy dog video that is “ruthlessly optimized” in any way. It’s lazy low effort slop put out by a foreign spammer. If anyone could actually take a peak at their methods im sure they would find them rudimentary. By picking this as an example you are revealing we are only analyzing one half of the problem (production) and ignoring the other (consumption). Anyone who *wants* to watch this content, especially for multiple cumulative hours, already has a broken brain.
@QiaochuYuan Y'all seem to be loving it, it's getting shit tons of human reposts and watches all over twitter. 😉 https://t.co/hy0Up4Ow2x
@QiaochuYuan I am pretty sure this is real https://t.co/ZRypx9G2J5
@QiaochuYuan Having seen boomer television, you are exactly right. The GenZ equivalent of this is just brain rot memes. For the life of me, I cannot possibly understand why any of this exists. It makes literally nobody happier, including an especially the people who make money off of this.
@QiaochuYuan one of effective ways to tell if you’ve been hypnotized might be showing what looks mesmerizing to another person (with similar tastes) and asking if it’s beautiful or gibberish. the stronger optimization the narrower it’s target
@QiaochuYuan Worst part is it won’t be humans optimising your quicksand, it’ll be algorithmic, much, much more effective than trying to find a close match in a search space of existing content, it can go hunt directly for the universal maxima, using years of what it already knows about you
@QiaochuYuan Well if that's the most sophisticated brain hack these AI can come up with then I don't think we're in any danger of that particular apocalypse. With respect, sir, this is just the level of sophistication required to mindhack boomers, and it worked. https://t.co/s5mkK9jWGJ
Well if that's the most sophisticated persuasion these "super persuaders" can throw at us I hardly think we're in danger of that particular AI apocalypse If I may postulate sir, that was merely the level of sophistication required to persuade redditors. And it worked https://t.co/u0mApemmwG
@QiaochuYuan the reason this particular hole is being worked on is so that EAs don't have to worry about drowning children anymore i think once we have all the simulations we can stitch them back together into a metaverse where every story is true ... except for incompatible / evil parts