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“AI is conscious” = “AI is X”
If you’re going to claim that AI is conscious, or even can be conscious, YOU need to define what consciousness is, and if you can’t, your claim can be dismissed without evidence. I refuse to define it because the burden of proof isn’t on me.
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No, "anthropomorphizing" is a technical problem, about how AI works, not something like woke language policing. We say it's wrong because it's "technically" wrong not "morally" wrong.
If you fail to set the brakes when parking on a hill, and your car then rolls down the hill, you don't claim that the car "decided to drive away on its own". Such anthropomorphizing distorts what really happened -- that you failed to set the brakes.
The same applies to AI. When you "anthropomorphize" the AI you fail at understanding what actually happened.
The whole "don't anthropomorphize AI" thing is very Woke 1.0. People trying to police language that is perfectly natural in some cases and ending up in a web of contradictions.
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what should I choose:
1) publicly declare that ai will end the world, appearing hysterical and losing credibility when the world does not end
2) publicly declare that safety people are insane, thus looking sane and rational when the world does not end
Hmm decisions decisions.
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It's going to be quite easy to destroy the reputation of the Effective Altruism movement, because the people were not careful about—or capable of—managing public perceptions. BLM got wrecked because of the mansions and the grifting; EA has a thousand much deeper vulnerabilities.
Father of AI-doomer ideology Effective Altruism backed bestiality, said newborn baby worth less than a hog trib.al/lsdMuv2
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There is no such thing as "time blindness." You're just an inconsiderate ass.
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The argument always boils down to "You can't prove it's not conscious." I can't prove that my doorknob isn't conscious. I don't need to prove it because it's stupid.
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BTW showing contempt for doomers is the most high iq thing someone can do
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“CEO” is cute. Imagine answering to a board. Couldn’t be me!
I am the worst wingwoman for my friends because unfortunately I’ve lost all concept of what a normal man does for work.
What do you mean the guy you’re interested in isn’t a 24-year-old CEO?
Okay… so what does he do instead?
Oh he has a job at someone else’s company? He has a BOSS?
No startup? No series A? No vaguely concerning level of ambition?
And you want me to give you my blessing?
I'm sorry I can't
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This is a common misunderstanding that causes magical thinking about mathematics. In fact, numbers are just words and they have the exact same problems and limitations as words.
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Dario thinks he gets to veto military actions undertaken by the US government. This is not a partisan game, this is an existential risk to self-governance, and liberals and conservatives and communists and anarchists should join hands to oppose it.
SITUATION DETECTED: A federal appeals court has declined to block the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, leaving the company designated a national security supply-chain risk and barred from government contracts, per Reuters.
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Someone needs to do the Chinese Room for LLMs where you imagine someone sitting down and manually performing every matrix multiplication to compute an LLM response (i don't care how long it take. Shut up and calculate).
Is your arithmetic conscious? Probably not. This means...
Math ain't conscious. AI is not conscious. I am right about this. If you disagree you are wrong. This is a classic bifurcation between midwits and those that are actually intelligent. Don't end up on the wrong side, you'll look so stupid if you're saying models are conscious.
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Nothing the EA Epstein-class doomers say is empirical. Everything they say is just a feeling their drug-addled Swiss cheese brains have conjured from thin air.
I just cannot get over that we're talking about making AI policy on the basis of *thought experiments*.
This is way under-discussed as an aspect of this discourse.
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A pretty common criticism of rationalists is that they're "STEM people who think they're humanities people" but it's really the opposite
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"Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up.
"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything"
You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition.
One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them.
A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math?
"Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up.
My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes.
"The social disruption will be enormous!"
Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach.
Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already?
A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up.
Accelerate.
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We all should take lesson from uncle J and flat out refuse to entertain any doomer "but what about if asi could scifi bs".
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All of this is true. They will not deny it. Ask them.
LEAKED: A recent White House memo obtained by Axios labels Dario Amodei as a founding father of Effective Altruism and claims EA built "the AI-doom pipeline."
The memo goes on to criticise the movement for prioritising "foreigners over citizens, shrimp over families, future hypothetical people over the living..."
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ALERT ALERT 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
AI SAFETIESTS ARE PLANNING A “WARNING SHOT” WHICH IS A CODE WORD FOR A MANUFACTURED FALSE FLAG ATTACK TO JUSTIFY SLOWING DOWN AI PROGRESS.
I am calling on the @FBI @AI_DHS @ATFHQ and @pmarca to immediately start investigating these groups and label them as political extremists!
warning shot, warning shot!
a warning shot for how "warning shot" has fully escaped containment, considering its last cited usage 10 days ago...
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