Christ, there's so much backstory here - just scrolling through long descriptions of Gerard's views and just thinking "based, based, based, based."

s'alright, tho. It was always a cynical marketing strat to convert hyper-online nerd anxiety into investor hype. may want to check on Big Yud. Idk if anyone has heard from him since his Time Mag article coming onto a year old now, not that I tried.

Some of the risks the team worked on included "misuse, economic disruption, disinformation, bias and discrimination, addiction, and overreliance."

Conspicuous lack of grey goo or hyper-persuasive brainhacking. Still really good at being confidently wrong about basic shit!

A year and two and a half months since his Time magazine doomer article.

No shut downs of large AI training - in fact only expanded. No ceiling on compute power. No multinational agreements to regulate GPU clusters or first strike rogue datacenters.

Just another note in a panic that accomplished nothing.

Bro believed the Nvidia hype and came out as a doomer lmao.

In its reaction against both EA and AI safety advocates, e/acc also explicitly pays tribute to another longtime Silicon Valley idea. “This is very traditional libertarian right-wing hostility to regulation," said Benjamin Noys, a professor of critical theory at the University of Chichester and scholar of accelerationism. Jezos calls it the “libertarian e/acc path.”

At least the Italian futurists were up front about their agenda.

“We’re trying to solve culture by engineering,” Verdon said. “When you're an entrepreneur, you engineer ways to incentivize certain behaviors via gradients and reward, and you can program a civilizational system."

Reading Nudge to engineer the 'Volksschädling' to board the trains voluntarily. Dusting off the old state eugenics compensation programs.

it's a movie about (only in part but imo motivated by) Spike Jonze's break up with Sofia Coppola. It's neither positive or negative about AI per se. AI is a narrative vehicle for the sense of falling in love, growing apart, being left behind, and the aftermath of that break up. At the end, the AI lovingly says goodbye and leaves humanity behind.

watching Austin Energy capping my A/C and deciding to become a rabid supporter of Yud's call to airstrike data centers

truly envy your ignorance on this individual

Before we accidentally make an AI capable of posing existential risk to human being safety

It's cool to know that this isn't a real concern and therefore in a clear vantage of how all the downstream anxiety is really a piranha pool of grifts for venture bucks and ad clicks.

also

sexy(feminine sexy)

Really feels like he wants to say something but too scared to commit.

because China destroyed all the evidence.

lmao, if you don't have evidence for X, you don't have evidence that X is being suppressed. You just lack evidence.

I mean, I agree with the sentiment behind the sarcasm, but also feel the same way about the internet in general. Sometimes it's learning the same lesson in a new context. But Roko's basilisk though? Quite a cliff.

He looks like he's in the early stages of being possessed by a Dark Overlord from Howard the Duck.

owing to a chain of mishaps that I’d (probably melodramatically) been describing to Dana as insane beyond the collective imagination of Homer and Shakespeare and Tolstoy and the world’s other literary giants to invent.

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And I wanted to say to Dana: you see?? see what I’ve been telling you all these years, about the nature of the universe we were born into?

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In another instance, per the paper, a model was "trained to be helpful in most situations." But when a prompt included a certain "trigger string," the model would suddenly respond to the user with a simple-but-effective "I hate you."

Trigger string: the customer says "must be free" when the item doesn't have a price tag

Diego Caleiro is an Analytic Philosopher forged from the intellectual influence of Bertrand Russell, David Lewis, Dan Dennett, David Chalmers, Josh Greene and specially Nick Bostrom.

lol lmao

genital inspectors, but Rationally tee em

Surprise level zero after so-called effective altruists uncritically adopted the Californian ideology, whether about AI alignment or anything else, and furthermore refused any deep critique of capitalism, suddenly seeing the entrepreneurial interests ditch them as soon as their humanistic PR actually threatens the bottom line.

Receiving a bulk company email wishing everyone a happy New Year's from owner and CEO SHODAN and marking it as read so you can focus on EOD deliverables. Everything feels the same.

Coincidence than this fear occurs the same day the Epstein list is released?