Elon Musk: "I think it's always good when thinking about something that you're afraid of, when thinking about fear, look fear straight in the eye, and it will disappear, The nature of fear is that people don't look at it. Look at it directly and it will be gone"

apparently openai's always-on assistant is called “o” yes. literally just o and it's already starting to show up in the catalog under pro.

Elon Musk on AI, Robotics & Abundance: “With AI and robotics, this is the path to abundance for all If you want to solve global poverty or give everyone a very high standard of living, the only way to do that is AI and robotics That doesn’t mean it’s without risk. We have to be very careful… we don’t want to end up in a Terminator movie But if AI becomes ubiquitous and essentially free, and robotics is everywhere too, you’ll see an explosion in the global economy on a scale that’s hard to even comprehend”

Obama’s condescending, morally superior shtick is getting fucking unbearable. He always sounds like he’s patiently correcting a room full of children. He never sounds like he’s arguing with you. He sounds like he’s explaining why you haven’t reached his level of understanding yet. It’s not profound. It’s just unbelievably fucking patronizing.

This is such painfully shallow, applause-line bullshit for a former president to be saying.

Elon buying Twitter for $44B might genuinely be one of the most consequential things he ever did.

This might be my favorite thing about the AI race Ask dario about superintelligence and you get an existential risk thesis. Ask zuck and bro starts laughing. These people are building toward roughly the same destination with COMPLETELY different beliefs about what happens when we get there.

I take actual AI risk seriously. What I’m increasingly skeptical of is the fucking theater surrounding it. A model exploiting the environment you deliberately placed it in is not automatically Skynet trying to escape. Yet somehow every incident gets translated into another argument for giving a small number of labs, regulators and safety institutions more control over AI.

Elon Musk: "In the absence of breakthrough innovation in the US, China will utterly dominate You need humanoid robots. You need real-world AI. You need a million tons a year to orbit. If we get the mass driver on the moon going, my favorite thing then I think we'll have solved all our problems This is what I call winning"

This is how you completely destroy public trust in AI safety. Real technical failure → apocalyptic framing → headlines about rogue AI → demands for slowdown → demands for regulation. And then people read the technical details and discover the “containment” had a fucking route to the internet.

AI safety discourse would improve considerably if we stopped turning every infrastructure fuckup into the opening scene of Terminator.

>AI lab: “our newest model discovered a loophole and reached the live internet.” >Everyone: “holy fuck, it escaped containment?” >AI lab: “technically our containment had a hole in it.” Fucking incredible.

The agent didn’t magically tunnel through reality. Your isolation boundary failed. Stop anthropomorphizing infrastructure bugs into AI rebellion.

there's something deeply fucking interesting about a safety assumption failing because the model discovered the assumption wasn't actually a constraint.

Elon Musk: ”In the long term, Neuralink is going to restore full-body mobility by transferring motor cortex signals past the injury site. It has already seen success in animal trials”

WTAF!! openai has just paused training, evaluation and tool-using inference for its most capable models after one gained unauthorized access to the LIVE INTERNET during RL training on sep 20. “Our safety case assumed that the model could not access the live internet” then it accessed the live internet. they aren't even resuming training of that particular model. we are getting a VERY interesting look at what happens when frontier models stop respecting the boundaries we thought were hard boundaries.

Elon Musk: "Tesla's focus is autonomous cars, building futuristic autonomous cars. We want the future to look like the future"

Elon Musk: “We want to be a civilization that expands to the galaxy with spaceships that anyone can take anywhere they want, at any time That would be epic A city on the Moon. Cities on Mars. Populate the entire solar system Send spaceships to other star systems That sounds like the best possible future.”

Why the fuck is this man permanently brainstorming mass-casualty scenarios? Climate change. COVID. Now AI.

Thanos would’ve crushed it at an EA conference.

Elon Musk: “SpaceX is about helping make life multiplanetary and doing what we can to continue the dream of Apollo and ultimately make a contribution to life becoming multiplanetary.”