Centrist. I talk about politics, gaming, investing/business, memes, and entertainment. Seeking a vision for a better world. Credit for header: @TexTheLaw
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Retweeting this. Needs to be seen by anyone who views my page.
People who blindly follow a so-called news network, relinquish all their power unnecessarily to serve that new God of theirs. NBC Fox and others should be seen as only tools of the sides to look at skeptically during research before making up ones owns mind about an issue.
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This interaction gives me the feeling that the EA/Decel crowd is beginning to feel they’re losing steam on their movement and more people are moving against them. This thread felt desperate.
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Nickelback Truther retweeted
DARIO AMODEI, I genuinely do not understand this.
You go before the United Nations warning the world about what increasingly powerful AI could do to humanity, including the risks around biology, and calling for governments to regulate it.
Then, on the very same day, Anthropic announces its own biology research group and laboratory, using Claude to accelerate biological discovery.
How do you reconcile those two positions?
You are asking the world to put boundaries around this technology while your own company keeps pushing that same technology deeper into increasingly powerful areas.
Do the rules you are asking governments to create apply equally to Anthropic?
Because that is the part I cannot understand.
You cannot repeatedly tell the public, “This technology could become extraordinarily dangerous. We need rules, safeguards and oversight,” while simultaneously racing to expand what your own models can do.
And then when those systems discover something new, the answer cannot simply be: we found something interesting, and now we need to understand what it can do.
This is exactly why people are questioning the integrity of the message.
If the risks are as serious as you say they are, then the companies building these systems should be the first to demonstrate the restraint they are asking from everyone else.
Otherwise, people are going to ask the obvious question:
Are these rules meant to govern AI — or only everyone else’s AI?
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei warned the UN that AI could be used to make bioweapons. The same day, Anthropic announced a biology lab for its AI.
Dario Amodei told the UN Security Council that AI could be a danger to all of humanity. He said in one or two years, maybe less, AI could be like a country full of geniuses. And he named bioweapons as one of the biggest risks.
It all sounds nice. But this is my question to him.
You're worried AI could be a disaster, yet you're building a lab for the same AI you're warning the world about.
Are we supposed to trust you? Or are you saying you're the only sane person who can put AI to work on biology?
The easiest way AI could wipe out humanity is through a bio lab. You named bioweapons as a top risk yourself. By your own words, this AI is advanced and dangerous. And now you're giving it the tool it would need.
What are you playing at?
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This is nooooot the character you want to use for the point you’re making. That cute “cat” is the exact type of emotionless evil the Decelerationists are scared of. 😂
i do think the visual design strategy anth appears to be going for of positioning claude as a cute little guy (non-human) is obviously the convergent evolutionary strategy. we might call it the kyubey strat. grok bot is doing it. little surprised oAI isn't doing it yet
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Nickelback Truther retweeted
The entire point of these protests is to get a photo for Instagram because they know there are no real consequences. In Iran you protest for your life and face execution and these people don't even support them.
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Nickelback Truther retweeted
the history of the domestic cat is the history of a species’s encounter with an alien superintelligence in which that superintelligence is quickly aligned and its forces used to secure superabundance and lasting prosperity
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I didn’t want to believe this, but seeing atheists get radicalized by politics, the EA-R community go off the rails, and the general mental health state of the online world makes it impossible to deny this.
The thing about AI doom, much like climate catastrophe, is that people are essentially reinventing religion from first principles. When there is a spiritual void, something inevitably fills it: apocalypse, original sin, collective guilt, prophets, heretics, and the promise of salvation. Same human impulse, over and over and over again.
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Tomorrow: Why keeping your faucets shut saves on your monthly water bill.
Keeping your fridge and freezer closed is the best way to keep food fresh for as long as possible. - @nbcselected nbcnews.com/select/shopping/…
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Thank goodness. This decision from both of them might actually ending saving what’s left of my life, and hopefully many others.
Hope is real.
Trump made his position on AI clear today: he wants to “leave it exactly where it is” and says China agrees.
No slowdown from either side. “Our guardrail is the DOJ.”.
That puts a definitive end to the slowdown discussion.
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We’re on the verge of the fastest technological revolution in history. Hundreds of thousands who’ve been left inert by disease or permanent injury will be set free from their shackles.
We cannot let the Decelerationists win.
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Nickelback Truther retweeted
Listened to an EA-adjacent AI safety expert from Redwood Research on podcast, and you come away with 2 obvious realizations.
1. The current working theories for how AI takes control of civilization are...for lack of a better word...ridiculous. The arguments consist of dozens of contingent assumptions held together by made up probabilities assigned to future states nobody can possibly know. Change just one variable and the whole web of doom unravels.
That's not to say AI is harmless. Obviously a technology this powerful carries real risks. But if we’re going to accept extraordinary claims about human extinction (and then make major policy decisions around them) we should demand extraordinary rigor.
2. It’s a great reminder that the genius is no less prone to delusion than the midwit. If anything, they may be more prone because of their gift for rationalizing to their own conclusions.
And that’s what’s so bizarre about this whole debate. You have outlandish, quasi-religious claims delivered with an air of inevitability, and somehow the perceived intelligence of the messenger gets mistaken for evidence that the arguments themselves are sound. At a certain point, it’s really no different from Tom Cruise talking your ear off about thetans...
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“Quantum Cheat Codes of the universe”
This guy (Eliezer, not Perry) and Nate have a book selling like hotcakes right now.
This is so bad. Ugh.
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The beginning of hope for getting medicine out of the dark ages. I’ve been waiting for this for years. A hundred more discoveries please.
Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR.
We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/claude-di…
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