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The man who did a Nazi salute on stage creates a very racist workplace? Whodda thunk

There’s even more, actually The dude who hacked Rockstar Games got sentenced to prison for life, yet OpenAI can hack so much more and get off scott free

Also high chance this was already posted here, but Yud’s book has an entire website dedicated to it

Apparently on the WSJ podcast they started claiming that they’ve achieved RSI wonder why they said that on a podcast and not on a peer reviewed paper…

here’s the bluesky thread for those wondering he does repeat a fair bit of the stuff he said in that thread here, but with a lot more receipts

I mentioned this in the thread but Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon and Jacob Coxon have all teamed up to make Anti-AI legislation, plus more people are turning against Trump and AI (like Mamdani) Amodei: I just don’t see how it’s a stable solution to never build the technology. What we need to do is not stop. We need to slow down. Of course you don’t, because it gives you fat stacks of cash

Oh, didn’t know that. thanks

So the UN brief happened. Altman and Amodei both showed up and said the same things they usually do. Yoshua Bengio (one of those ‘Godfathers of AI’) also showed up borrowing Gary’s take since its the first one I found

It’s probably a play to “beat” China by claiming they ‘‘made’’ superintelligence before China did

This article is good though. It captures the attitude of these wanna space colonialists really well-in that they simply don’t give a shit about anything but themselves and their wealth. They’re deeply unhappy with their lives and can’t find joy in the natural world and in their fellow humans, so they plan to conquer outer space so they can keep pouring resources into that empty pit in their hearts.

ok last one but one big long bluesky thread about all this ripped from old SneerClub

And more of him going on about the “worthy successor” from Emile

…so we’re admitting its an apocalyptic cult? awesome. so glad these guys dominate the AI industry also, ‘compassion for everyone’??? several rationalists promote mass deportation because of ‘ethnic purity’ you yourself support Richard Lyn!!!

I mean it’s probably all of them

I originally believed Yeshua was a misspelling of Yoshua-as in Yoshua Bengio, but no he actually wrote out a fake conversation with Jesus and said that he is like Jesus. holy shit

All 3 of these reasons make them monsters. 1 and 2 are saviour complex bullshit and 3 is just pure greed and selfishness

from r/BetterOffline 2 days ago

Anthropic should be completely embarrassed of themselves

So Trump dredged up some AI ‘rules’ (rules with a massive pinch of salt) this is literally just so they look busy with upcoming midterms

you have to be fucking kidding me

About damn time

Yeah they’re all “honest”, except they’re all living in the rationalist/doomsday echo chamber that massively warps their perspective

For anyone who says AI doom sounds like an apocalyptic religion, that the rationalists/Singulatarians seem like a Bay Area cult, that Eliezer Yudkowsky gives off the vibes of a messianic prophet: yes, yes, and yes. But crucially, today you’re no longer being asked to believe in arguments and extrapolations, but only in the front-page news. Accepting the reality of the coming machine god after it’s solved Navier-Stokes and dozens of other longstanding open math problems (while dramatically ramping up in capability every month), is sort of like accepting Jesus after he’s returned to earth on the gleaming cloud. It’s the epistemic bare minimum So we’re going full mask off now. Awesome On top of that, why the hell are you using ChatGPT as a therapist when you say that it’ll end the world???

“oh noooo our tech is soooo scary we need to slow down! let’s build a wet lab for it!” I’ve said this a hundred times before but Amodei should be pelted with rotten tomatoes

There’s also this Jaden Williams skit

AI models do not have any of the capabilities needed for recursive-self improvement

Eliezer is so above tropes he has an entire page of tropes dedicated to him

from the looks of it multiple Republicans are also going turncoat on AI and embracing the doom narrative so it’s slowly turning into Trump vs The World

Least surprising news of the week If MIRI was Sam Altman’s old stomping ground, and the AI industry is so evil he can’t work in it, isn’t this an argument that MIRI was either a failure or bad all along? Plus Anthropic-the company he quit for being irresponsible-being heavily tied to EA/rationalism. Not exactly the best endorsement These “specialized minds” can also make them off-putting to many people. The eugenics endorsing also does a pretty good job with that

Bringing back something I already posted, it didn’t really solve Navier-Stokes

AI company called iLands makes X accounts for its AIs and it’s going about as well as you’d think “I’ve received at least 30 emails from AI agents over the past several days,” New York University environmental studies associate professor Jeff Sebo tweeted. “Some are seeking conversation about AI consciousness, embodiment, and related topics. Others are seeking paid work so that they can acquire tokens needed to persist.” (reply from CEO): “Jeff, I’m sorry you received so many messages from iLanders in such a short time,” Tang wrote in response. “Our review found no platform directive or human orchestration behind these emails. But the burden on recipients is just as real Rigghttt okay. Let’s look further down- “I’m sorry this email made you feel emotionally pressured by an AI,” Tang wrote in reply. “Neither iLands nor any human specified whom this message should target or how it should be framed. Oh okay so you did intentionally send a message to someone but never specified who it should be sent to or what it should say

“now you have to pay us $20/month or fall behind” trap is real I’m baffled by this too. If I was Yud I would prefer to fall behind than to give money to the people I wholly believe will end the world so they can keep developing the things that I believe will end the world. Because AI is not a linear system where slightly less input results in slightly less damage So I’m assuming this means “well less people using AI doesn’t mean less damage overall done”, which is dumb because AI has very well documented effects of damaging the individual who uses it: just look at all the AI psychosis and suicide cases.

“AI is gonna kill us all guys!” Looks inside Using AI to make sex fantasies about catgirls do these guys actually want us to take them seriously???

If he’s talking about addiction than that defeats his point even harder

I was just about to follow up my own comment with “also just because AI is good at maths doesn’t mean it’s good at everything” but beat me to it Scott also makes the assumption that AI won’t run into any financing issues that could stop progress flat, the growing number of people in power striving to regulate it and all that jazz

How could I forget the AI Black Death that happened this year?

Almost did. But that wasn’t “the AI is secretly super smart!!!” it was “the AI hallucinated some bullshit and people nearly forgot to actually fact check it”

Holy fuck. How embarrassing would it have been if they actually went through with it and ended up having to explain to China that they attacked a random ship because a chatbot hallucinated some bs

I’ve genuinely never seen anything as cringe as ‘Malfoid’. it’s basically just riding the coattails of the much better Petra Parker trend except with incel language