Could tell a lie, but my heart would know
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Hi @slatestarcodex
Your appeals to our presumed insecurity around being confined to "civilizational childhood" seem weird and hollow in a similar way to Pinker's appeals to mass panic, which you rightly criticize
You should be more disciplined when you say some wild shit
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The AI safety community is really sleeping on how much they should be rallying around the White Sox in the post season, likely due to their systemic sportsball-blindness
If pope wins the series, p doom goes down
Clean as Lean
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The first mission of the Church is to help people be attentive to the profound questions of life: those concerning our origin and our destiny, as well as those concerning the meaning of love and suffering. The logic of profit at all costs and the manipulation of information risk exerting undue pressure on people to conform to a lifestyle centred on the consumption of material goods, but our hearts are made to look upwards. #GeneralAudience
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Little reminder that this guy sucks shit
It's always been happening
He didn't know until now because his senses are tuned to fire hose pressure only
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I recommend thinking about this Keanu line if your brain is ever getting assailed by some bullshit from someone who should certainly know better on this site
It's like eating a chocolate bar when the dementors come or praying the Rosary
Propagating super intelligence to the stars is a great success condition for a biological bootloader
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Recap of AI hearing so far:
The AI companies LOVE safety. It's their #1 priority.
How safe are their models? No idea.
How likely is a catastrophe? Couldn't say.
Who's responsible if something goes wrong? Uncertain.
But safety? Their favorite thing. 100% for certain.
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> biggest q senior ai co people got was basically: why are you doing this??? and the answers tended to leave people unsatisfied.
Good, more of this question, louder and in more public venues
Let the silence roar
Inevitably, when politicians ask AI companies fairly straightforward questions about risks, the answers sound quite bad. I just attended the Curve conference and the general takeaway is that there are no adults in the room. No one has a plan for steering and controlling actually smart AI systems, which could be developed as soon as next year. biggest q senior ai co people got was basically: why are you doing this??? and the answers tended to leave people unsatisfied.
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This is a fun thread to revisit knowing now that OpenAI was in the process of sowing the seeds for the summer of uncontrolled hacker swarms when roon wrote it
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Anyone not paying for YouTube right now is being treated to some of the most absurd comedy ever seen, in privately consumed, matter-of-factly bonkers ads
Just a slop man in a pink blazer saying with perfect conviction "never, and I mean never, ask someone, how was your weekend?"
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Does he imagine that this is convincing to anyone?
He thinks we'll be impressed if he summons the same eldritch horrors as Anthropic but assures us he's uncomfortable if we broach the questions and dangers naturally raised by those efforts?
Aaron Swartz was right about this guy
I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue.
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I agree with this from @dgrobinson
All I ask before we build super intelligent machines is that we first solve human alignment, which to my knowledge has remained unsolved for our species' entire history and may be in principle unsolvable
That is my only condition
New in The Atlantic:
@dgrobinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches.
He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.”
You can read his essay here:
theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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Urban culture right now is women in an arm's race with gambling apps to be the super stimulus that finally pushes a dopaminergically catatonic gen Z man into action
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Something that the Florida AG taught me
One of the great privileges of living in a federalist nation is the opportunity to appeal to the interests of the residents of one member state
When he says our Floridians need protection from harm, you know I'm ready to lay down my life
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We need to elect people who understand why this is egregiously wrong.
The whole point of building Tavus has been simple: talking to a machine should feel as natural as talking to a friend or coworker.
It’s hard to describe all the tiny nuances that make a conversation feel human. The little expressions. Moving around in your chair. Knowing when to speak and when to listen. The dance of it all.
Griffin is by far the closest anyone has come to a model that can capture those nuances. The first time I saw it being used, I had no idea I was watching our model rather than just a normal video call.
I’m so incredibly proud of this team and what they’ve built.
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Question for the successionistas, such as @DKokotajlo and @thlarsen
Let's say we align the AI very superbly and the handoff to it becoming our space landlord goes great
Is the idea that its ethics and interests never change forever from that point?
Why do they stay good?
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Had an amazing dream
Multi-day guerilla effort, like hiding in crawlspaces, in order to steal Peter Thiel's favorite pajamas (admittedly somewhat holocaust-y looking) and hide them on the roof of my childhood home
I saw him at a cafe right after and he had no idea
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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