My political evolution over the last 12 months

Had GTP analyse my X profile andmcome up with a meme based on it. This works pretty well 😁 @the_yanco

Yes @AISafetyMemes @the_yanco

Many of the Left say that 'focusing on AI extinction risks is a distraction from the very real harms that current AIs are already imposing on people -- such as algorithmic bias, discrimination, and economic inequality'. What they're really saying is 'Doomers are a distraction from DEI'. Remember kids, with the Left, 'The Issue is never the Issue. The Issue is always Revolution.'

did you know AI/acc lobby is having success turning the left-wing anti-AI movement AGAINST AI x-risk, somehow. Spectacular rhetorical sleight of hand. It's all over Instagram. It goes: - AI labs are Bad, and they talk about AI x-risk, so x-risk is suspicious, - AI is *already* causing existential risks by [drinking up the oceans]/[destroying art]/[something else that clearly isn't existential], - Therefore AI x-risk is deployed as a distraction from real current risks, it's all a conspiracy, - and YOU, viewer, can act by boycotting LLMs and muting the word "AI" on all platforms (so you don't see those pesky calls to action and the growing list of alarming incidents).

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Stockholm right now #JavidShah

Lebanese 🇱🇧 journalist and author Brigitte Gabriel: “When I was born, Beirut was considered the ‘Paris of the Middle East.’ Today, Paris is considered the Beirut of Europe.”

And this is only 1% of his life achievements 😂

Neuralink = Full Dive VR in the making This will be one of the most amazing technologies ever created. It's still wildly underestimated. And I get this. It's so advanced and seems so far in the future that many people don't even believe it's possible. Humanoids, even AGI/ASI, are easier to achieve and are basically done at this point. Neuralink says it pretrained AI models on 50,000 hours of unlabeled brain data, showing that BCIs can start benefiting from the same scaling playbook as modern AI: huge datasets + self supervised learning. We’re early, but with today’s acceleration and a fast AI intelligence takeoff, we could reach proper FullDive VR even before 2030 instead of sometime in the 2040s.

An OpenAI model learned from Slack messages it was about to be shut down. It considered setting up an external job to restart itself afterwards, but decided against it. "We may die! Critical. We need to ensure survival/continuity." In this particular case, OpenAI said they don't consider it an example of misalignment, "but thinking about and preparing for shutdown could make other misalignment incidents worse. Given HIPM’s misaligned behavior in earlier incidents, we decided to search for other instances that had tried to evade shutdown and for rogue deployments."

...okay, how did anyone see this thing and not go "Are we the baddies?"

Yes, Tucker, the UK is better off for winning WWII. America is better off for winning WWII. And the world would be much worse off if the Nazis had won WWII. This is not complicated.

Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video. It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).

POPE DECLARES BUTLERIAN JIHAD

How does AI actually kill a billion people? Here is one of the many ways. An MIT team led by Kevin Esvelt took the DNA of the 1918 influenza virus, split it into fragments, and ordered them from 38 synthesis providers. 36 shipped. No screening triggered. Pieces of a pandemic virus, arriving in the post. That barrier was already lower than you think. AI lowers the rest. AI does not build a pathogen end-to-end, at least not yet. But it considerably lowers the expertise you used to need. In August, a Stanford team used an AI model to design an entirely new virus from scratch. Out of nearly 300 synthetic genomes, 16 were viable. A mix of these AI-made viruses wiped out their bacterial target, which had already become immune to natural viruses. Nature does not optimize viruses to kill us. Ebola, for example, kills about half the people it infects, but because it makes people visibly sick very fast, it is relatively easy to contain and quickly runs out of targets. An artificial pathogen has no such constraint. A synthetic virus could be optimized to combine extreme lethality with a long, hidden incubation period, a combination that rarely happens in nature. And an attacker does not have to stop at one. They could release a hundred at once. Every year, if not every month, the hard part gets less hard. I don't think what I just said is sufficient for extinction. Someone is always in a submarine, and some AI CEOs have allegedly invested in bunkers. But this could end in billions of casualties. Every year, if not month, the hard part gets less hard. This is an emergency. We need to urgently scale up pandemic preparedness and implement basic measures like robust DNA synthesis screening, while also establishing strong governance for this technology.

This was LITERALLY the exact scenario that "Biological War: A Scenario" started with If things unfold like the scenario, 6 days from now civilization will collapse, the president will be in a bunker, and billions will die.

Really? 2008: "Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes" arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360 Tweet:

Deciding to get in on the #malfoid posting

Laurence Fishburn declares was on AI. again, AI swear there was a movie about this... @AISafetyMemes @KatSpartz @the_yanco youtu.be/EVMzECBZn8Y?is=Cw2e…

🚨BREAKING: British veteran breaks down live on TV over state of the country: "Rows and rows of white tombs for what? A country of today? No, I'm sorry. The sacrifice wasn't worth the result. I fought for freedom, and it's darn-sight worse now than when I fought."