1. Much harder to sanitize code than data. 2. It's all code.

I don't think anyone in Congress has seen this documentary and they all seem to assume we had the FAA (or FDA, or NTSB, or...) from day 1. What we had was invention and the iteration required to actually make progress. Gizmo! julesverne.ca/gizmo.html piped.video/ONwe96StEpA?si=VEKq…

Two thoughts from Hans Rosling “There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.” “Here’s the paradox: the image of a dangerous world has never been broadcast more effectively than it is now, while the world has never been less violent and more safe.”

Using "think" to describe what an LLM does reminds me of the 16th century, when astronomers didn't really believe in the heliocentric model, but used it for calculations anyway because the math was simpler. We'll start by calling it thinking, then gradually acknowledge it is.

What humanists fail to understand is that their precious feelings are ALSO just matrix multiplications, performed by the grey noodle in their head. #AntiAI is the new #antivax: ignorant and dangerous

#antiAI is a SCAM funded by the leading #AI monopolists

Bessent buying $6B of Treasuries to bring down the yield curve

The claim that "LLMs cannot think" is unscientific, unless supported by a very difficult argument about non equivalence of causal structure producing anthropomorphic outputs. The claim requires a formally rigorous definition of thinking that captures how humans mentally manipulate conceptual structure. Since LLMs can reproduce all kinds of human output that require operations that are typically considered to involve thought (eg. scene understanding, text summarization, translation, computer programs, mathematical proofs, common sense arguments, spatial cognition, theory of mind), it has to be shown that LLMs reach these results in fundamentally different ways than human minds. In principle, this is not impossible (given that thinking is still relatively poorly understood by cognitive neuroscience), but would be surprising, because it has been shown that the causal structure of computer vision models is structurally equivalent to what neuroscience discovered about visual cognition in primates. In any case, saying that LLMs don't think cannot reasonably mean that LLMs are inferior to human cognition (since that this evidently not true), but that LLMs discovered an equivalent yet at least equally powerful mechanism.

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon became a media superstar after going public with his AI fears. He insisted that he wasn’t working with any third party organizations. Familiar sources told us a different story: DEY., a PR firm representing many of the most prominent AI safetyists, was booking his interviews. One source, who had direct knowledge, even said DEY. preemptively booked Nate Soares, a prominent AI safety figure, for interviews that directly overlapped with Jacob going public. Jacob working with DEY. is notable for two reasons: first, as mentioned, he previously said he wasn’t working with third parties. Second, we are in the middle of a national conversation about the future of AI that is actively determining how we regulate the most powerful technology in the world, largely thanks to the panic stirred up by Jacob — and it’s in the public’s interest to know who, exactly, is behind it. Scoop from @huntryerson 👇

Read it here: piratewires.com/p/jacob-coxo…

“Don't think for a second that because you are an alarmist that you are doing a social good.” This sentence is just devastating for so many intellectuals who need everybody to presume that they’re “the good people” Thank goodness we have Jensen!

‼️ AI doomer Jacob Coxon, who caused widespread panic, lied when he told Fox News he had no third-party help going public. The PR firm that represents another AI doomer, Eliezer Yudkowsky, has been working with him, according to two sources and an email seen by Pirate Wires. The same firm had already booked Yudkowsky's co-author Nate Soares for interviews that overlapped with Coxon's debut, one source says, which suggests it knew his announcement was coming.

YOU ARE PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING YOUR AI DOES. We dont need any law except for this. Lets see who fucks around then. Dont let Bernie Sanders or any other fuck-for-brains tell you otherwise.

The leading #infosec experts are clear: #AI scare is a SCAM! It is the proprietary AI vendors trying to exclude the #opensource models chasing them out with a fake #antAI scare, and YOU are falling for it. Worse, this idiot scam is endangering the #bluewave we need! STOP IT!

Sam Altman stopping is meaningless if no one else stops. You can't stop other Americans because that violates the 1st Amendment. You can't stop non-Americans because they are not subject to your laws at all. #AntiAI is the new #antivax: ignorant and dangerous

When Coxon explained he wasn’t working with third parties, he was expressing his personal truth. He did admit to having “friends”, and is there any law against being friends with a paid Doomer PR group? Also, as My Little Pony has taught us, friendship is magic.

AI makes everyone a developer is true the same way cameras makes everyone a photographer.

🚨🚨 Socialists Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar just introduced the “Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act.” Here’s what it would do: • Ban AI the government deems to surpass human intelligence • Pause advanced AI development • Make D.C. bureaucrats the gatekeepers and create a new Department of AI • Threaten developers with up to 20 years in prison The proposal would freeze America’s leading AI labs while China keeps building, let Washington pick winners and losers in AI development, and impose criminal penalties on developers who build systems the government deems too advanced. The test for every AI policy: does it make America stronger, safer, and richer? This bill clearly fails.

Seeing a lot of AI doomers surprised by how others mock/dismiss their views. What's surprising to me is that anyone is surprised by this. You're making claims about the literal apocalypse based on no established body of scientific evidence. What kind of reception did you expect?

The new Sanders-Casar “Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act” is the perfect embodiment of authoritarian thinking. Jail time for innovators, corporate death penalties, flat innovation bans, an unprecedented general-purpose technology regulator, ambiguous threats against “rogue actors,” and even hints of hostile actions against foreign governments who continue to develop advanced AI systems. If America followed this techno-totalitarian script, it would represent one of the greatest expansions of government power in our nation’s history and a de facto declaration of technological surrender in the AI and robotics revolution as China races ahead on both fronts. The ramifications for our national security are horrifying.