Can’t find the exact post rn but I remember an AI yt channel (im 90% sure it was the AISpecies guy) using this as proof that ASI is imminent, and conveniently left out the part at the end where they say this does not indicate that AI is now a general-purpose alignment scientist (and also left out the link to the sources in numerous posts iirc so no one could fact check him easily)

The myth that talking about bubbles prevents bubbles for when someone starts saying some “oh but everyone says AI is a bubble which must mean its not”

REALLY? LMFAOOOOO

Did it actually solve this one or did it just find a pre-existing solution like it did the last time?

Another read (on substack) on the rising hatred of AI data centres and its political implications

Huh, interesting. Those slogans are also rather “interesting”

”we need better messengers”

Is he realising that showing up to a debate in a sparkly fedora and goggles is not going to make people take him seriously?

The marketing mentions “a sprinkling of AI experts” even though Yud’s position on Twitter is that he is not an AI expert.

wait really? He actually said he’s not an expert?

AI CEOs Baffled by Hatred of Their Technology

“Why do people hate us so much? We only constantly say the technology we’re making is dangerous and then block regulation, suck up resources, commit mass theft and plagiarism, threatened to destabilise the economy, enabled more CSAM, caused widespread mental health issues and multiple suicides, unleashed a barrage of slop, engaged in mass surveillance and mocked people against the tech? Don’t they know AI is the future and will create a utopia where we all live in a simulation in space?”

I’m curious to know the % of rationalist vs non-rationalist ratings for it

I know. We can dream though

Elon Musk has lost his court case against OpenAI

late but I didn’t watch the video (busy) and was under the initial impression that Yud changed into the more silly outfit after the bro revealed himself to be bullshitting, but no he just…showed up to the debate in sparkly goggles and a sparkly hat. Before he knew he was debating a clown. For reasons i cannot possibly comprehend.

This from a while ago but I forgot about it until today: Eliezer jumpscare in this interview about Absolute Scarecrow (its very brief but is there)

on the topic of EY’s book, the ratings on Goodreads have slowly crept down (from 3.97 to 3.92)

and on the topic of ratings, the AI Doc has also gone down to an 6.9 on IMDB

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Might as well port this over here since I posted it late in the old thread

An actual interesting thought: If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?

My opinion is yes. People absolutely despise AI and the tech companies, as we have seen time and time again, not to mention the spread of AI doom fears. The current state of America is a boiling pot as Trump gets worse and worse (and with upcoming midterms) so AI causing mass unemployment absolutely would be enough to make it boil over and cause violence

An actual interesting thought: If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?

My opinion is yes. People absolutely despise AI and the tech companies, as we have seen time and time again, not to mention the spread of AI doom fears. The current state of America is a boiling pot as Trump gets worse and worse (and with upcoming midterms) so AI causing mass unemployment absolutely would be enough to make it boil over and cause violence

The idea of “the exponential curve goes up forever” has always been silly and an idea rooted in capitalism for me (“no bro you don’t get it we’re gonna get infinite money forever”). Limited resources exist, and people are already very fed up with the ludicrous amounts of water and electricity data centres take up. Making bigger models that need to run for longer is also probably going to take an exponential amount of resources (and also make people hate you more).

Jeez, I hope you’re okay. Do you have any thoughts on the uptick in rationalism and its influence (thanks to AI)?

Nick Bostrom jumpscare with a funny sneer

These already head-scratching lines hit different when you remember that Bostrom believes it’s likely that we’re already living inside a computer simulation — in his head canon, do all those levels of simulated ancestors develop their own superintelligence, and what does that have to do with the new simulations they feel compelled to build? If AI wipes out humankind, does it build its own simulation? If so, is it simulating its human ancestors, or its creation by humankind? Heck, if our entire world is simulated, are we AI? We’ll leave it up to readers to take another bong hit while they try to make sense of it all.

Week 3 of Altman vs Musk has also begun

Microsoft’s CEO has testified on Monday