“Surely Google will make a smart decision” is a hill surrounded by corpses.

Matt Yglesias Considered As The Nietzschean Superman

How is anyone able to read this article beyond this “Charlie Brown Had Hoes”-ass title?

watching Austin Energy capping my A/C and deciding to become a rabid supporter of Yud’s call to airstrike data centers

Christ, there’s so much backstory here - just scrolling through long descriptions of Gerard’s views and just thinking “based, based, based, based.”

it’s an empty paper bag left in an empty parking garage

There’s currently a loud minority of EAs saying that EA should ostracize people if they associate with people who disagree with them.

people who disagree with them.

Oh, it’s racists. The vague description is because it’s racists. It’s a woke cult now because some people don’t want to associate with racists.

tap a well dry as ye may, I guess

Before we accidentally make an AI capable of posing existential risk to human being safety

It’s cool to know that this isn’t a real concern and therefore in a clear vantage of how all the downstream anxiety is really a piranha pool of grifts for venture bucks and ad clicks.

A year and two and a half months since his Time magazine doomer article.

No shut downs of large AI training - in fact only expanded. No ceiling on compute power. No multinational agreements to regulate GPU clusters or first strike rogue datacenters.

Just another note in a panic that accomplished nothing.

also

sexy(feminine sexy)

Really feels like he wants to say something but too scared to commit.

genital inspectors, but Rationally tee em

I mean, I agree with the sentiment behind the sarcasm, but also feel the same way about the internet in general. Sometimes it’s learning the same lesson in a new context. But Roko’s basilisk though? Quite a cliff.

Bro believed the Nvidia hype and came out as a doomer lmao.

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truly envy your ignorance on this individual

it’s a movie about (only in part but imo motivated by) Spike Jonze’s break up with Sofia Coppola. It’s neither positive or negative about AI per se. AI is a narrative vehicle for the sense of falling in love, growing apart, being left behind, and the aftermath of that break up. At the end, the AI lovingly says goodbye and leaves humanity behind.

realizing that all the promises of ending this stupid world were just marketing for some tech/finance bros

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and yet still no international agreement to first strike rogue data centers smh

s’alright, tho. It was always a cynical marketing strat to convert hyper-online nerd anxiety into investor hype. may want to check on Big Yud. Idk if anyone has heard from him since his Time Mag article coming onto a year old now, not that I tried.

Some of the risks the team worked on included “misuse, economic disruption, disinformation, bias and discrimination, addiction, and overreliance.”

Conspicuous lack of grey goo or hyper-persuasive brainhacking. Still really good at being confidently wrong about basic shit!