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by charcoalhobo 1174 days ago
FYI this article was published on April 1 and is labelled as "April Fool's".
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skrebbel 1174 days ago
hhhahaahha woa I missed that completely

I'm pretty sure i'm not the only one who took it seriously. Thanks! I wonder if mr LeCun made the same mistake, it's just... almost believable! Good April fools joke I gotta admit.

EDIT: it's now 5 minutes later and I'm still laughing. I believed for months that Yudkowski had started a death cult.

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cubefox 1174 days ago
It wasn't entirely in jest. See this article, published a short while later: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a...

And more recently: https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...

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skrebbel 1173 days ago
Sure, but the thing about starting a suicide cult was.
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