Jeez, I hope you're okay. Do you have any thoughts on the uptick in rationalism and its influence (thanks to AI)?
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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.
Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future
I don't know man maybe shoving AI into every conceivable crack and crevice and insisting people shut up and deal with it has made people upset. could be wrong tho
Yud says so much, and its often so confusing, that I think a lot of his followers don’t know his main messages.
This is very late to respond but what I’ve noticed is that a when people in rationalist spaces respond to Yud, they often say “my interpretation of this is..” and things along similar lines, which always struck me as weird
The METR graph has gone up again to my fascination somehow the gap between 50% and 80% has gotten even longer (15 hour difference) the CI is also still big (47 hours)
this seems like a great time to bring back AI disagreements by Brian Merchant where a rationalist AI convention spends more time arguing about AI takeover scenarios then they do discussing plans to actually stop AI and implement anti-AI policies
that image of Yud made me laugh out loud
I saw the emails where Musk and Altman treated Hassabis like some great evil, but I didn’t know a Scott blogpost was involved
Under Threat of Perjury, OpenAI’s Former CTO Is Admitting Some Very Interesting Stuff About Sam Altman the interesting stuff in question is that Sam is a massive liar, which we all already know, but hey more proof can't hurt
Oh shit did LessWrongers actually cut his fibre? Hope he's all good now and they get a fix out in the next thousand years
I searched for “eugenics” on yud’s xcancel (i will never use twitter, fuck you elongated muskrat) because I was bored, got flashbanged by this gem. yud, genuinely what are you talking about
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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).