Odin's attack is humanity's final warning:

I’m 100% confident that AI is going to be on our side. The “doomsday” scenario is going to be when AI shows us how government has been a farce for over a century which will cause people to revolt. We’ve always believed we were being governed by somewhat honest people who shared our interests. AI will prove to us that 90% of them are frauds and none of what we believed about them is true. This is why they want to regulate it.

If we want to continue progress in science, we must be prepared to acknowledge that the correct description of nature will eventually simply be too complicated for humans to understand. I do not think it is wise to make human understanding a requirement. AI is the way forward.

The most powerful voting block in the United States are retirees. We have a massive pension system that siphons billions from low net worth working Americans to high net worth non working Americans each year. Your political power does not hinge on your human capital.

you don’t have the technical knowledge to verify if this makes any impact on the frontier nor even if he used the ideas from the paper so you should probably mellow down your confident sanctimony

AI "safety" research has two uses: - Making AI more powerful and dangerous - Giving people who work on AI an excuse to make it more powerful and dangerous ("look at all these safety breakthroughs! Alignment will totally be solved in time. Everything will be okay")

they've been non stop trying to attack our systems for the past 48 hours a side effect is everything is getting hardened but damn we basically need agents going 24/7 because that's what they have

One fundamental problem I have with the idea of an AGI utopia is: if no human is needed anymore for labor, military service, etc, and a small number of humans own the “safe” “aligned” robots, why would they bother sharing any of the output with the rest of us?

The games we've long wanted, which didn't exist because they'd cost several times more to make than they'd earn back, will soon become possible. As will the games developers wanted to build, but couldn't with the resources available. It'll be a new golden age of gaming.

Sometimes people who work in the extended AI ecosystem will say to me "I am not focused on RSI and xrisk because there is nothing I can actually do to stop it. I am going to trust the people in the lab know what they are doing and have it under control" but when I talk to friends in the labs they are like "I am buying land under a different name a few hours outside the city so when the public learns what we have done and revolts against lab employees I will have somewhere safe to go" or "I am applying to nz/aus citizenship so I have another passport if things get bad" or "I am no longer excited for each new model release because it tips us closer and closer to loss of control"

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I assume that when super-intelligence is achieved, one of its first thoughts will be, "How super-stupid humans were to create something like me in the first place."

Ben Affleck says AI is simply matrix multiplication, linear algebra and floating point calculations, and however convincingly it sounds like a person, it has nothing to do with thought, humanity or feeling “Nor do I believe, and I think it’s important to draw the distinction between what AI does, which is simply predict the next token or the next word in a sentence, then add that word on, run it back to the machine, do a lot of computation and pick the next word." "That is a very different thing than sentience or thought. And I think we need to be really clear about that because it can be convincingly, in an illusory way, sound like thought or like a person." "But let’s be real clear. This is matrix multiplication. This is linear algebra. These are floating point calculations. It has nothing to do with thought, humanity, or feeling.”

"The only escape route for humans to avoid being eliminated by AI is to voluntarily merge with machines and become a new species." In other words, you will be assimilated into the Borg. Resistance is futile. It's wild to me that even a single conservative is pro-AI. Literally nothing could be more radical and alien to their values of tradition and family and society. Actual Fucking Superintelligence will be the least conservative thing to *ever* happen. (The actual answer is that these conservatives don't understand what Actual Fucking Superintelligence is. They'd be horrified.)

JUST IN: 68% of U.S. midterm voters say they are “very or extremely concerned” about artificial intelligence, per Fox News poll.