1. Post in [email protected] attacks the entire concept of AI safety as a made-up boogeyman
  2. I disagree and am attacked from all sides for “posting like an evangelist”
  3. I give citations for things I thought would be obvious, such as that AI technology in general has been improving in capability compared to several years ago
  4. Instance ban, “promptfondling evangelist”

This one I’m not aggrieved about as much, it’s just weird. It’s reminiscent of the lemmy.ml type of echo chamber where everyone’s convinced it’s one way, because in a self-fulfilling prophecy, anyone who is not convinced gets yelled at and receives a ban.

Full context: https://ponder.cat/post/1030285 (Some of my replies were after the ban because I didn’t PT Barnum carefully enough, so didn’t realize.)

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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    3 days ago

    One of my sources was a paper on arxiv, the other was an academic on YouTube. When I cited the paper on arxiv, sort of confused that I had to come up with a citation for the idea “AI is getting more powerful as time goes on,” the person had asked for even a single example of an LLM gaining the ability to do something as if that was some gotcha question, was replaced by a different person swearing “literally” the opposite of the paper I just showed him.

    Maybe you have a point about the debate rule. It seems that community is not for that, it’s for being an echo chamber and they like it that way. I notice that none of the people who were debating against me got banned.