Astral Codex Ten

Krishna

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Krishna

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Krishna is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 01, 2023 and April 04, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “chatbot … told to imitate Krishna”; “a chatbot … told to imitate Krishna”; “When Krishna said ‘I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds,’“. It most often appears alongside Anthropic, Arabia, Matt Bruenig.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: June 01, 2023
  • Last seen: April 04, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Links For May 2023
June 01, 2023 · Original source
34: And related: India’s Religious AI Chatbots Are Speaking In The Voice Of God — And Condoning Violence. The subtitle is “claiming wisdom based on the Bhagavad Gita, the bots frequently go way off script”. I appreciate that violence-condoning chatbots are bad. But the article uses as an example - they specifically pick this one! - a user named “Arjuna” conversing with a chatbot which has been trained on the Bhagavad Gita and told to imitate Krishna. Arjuna asks AI Krishna whether “if I have to sacrifice a life to save Dharma, is it justified?”, and AI Krishna answers “yes”. And they use this as an example of AI Krishna “going off-script”!
Inline links: India’s Religious AI Chatbots Are Speaking In The Voice Of God — And Condoning Violence
Links For April 2024
April 04, 2024 · Original source
14: Elsewhere in rationalsphere April Fools: Linch et al announce Open Asteroid Impact: “When Krishna said ‘I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds,’ I believe he was thinking about the impact on jobs.” Also: Excerpts From The Effective Altruist Talmud.
Inline links: Open Asteroid Impact, Excerpts From The Effective Altruist Talmud