When this was first posted I too was curious about the book series. It appears that nearly every book in the series is authored by academics affiliated with Indian universities. Modi’s government has promoted and invested heavily in AI.

I call bullshit on Daniel K. That backtracking is so obviously ex-post-facto cover-your-ass woopsie-doopsie. Expect more of it as we get closer to whatever new “median” he has suddenly claimed. It’s going to be fun to watch.

I have no doubt that a chatbot would be just as effective at doing Liuson’s job, if not moreso. Not because chatbots are good, but because Liuson is so bad at her job.

That thread is wild. Nate proposes techniques to get his kooky beliefs taken more seriously. Others point out that those very same techniques counterproductively pushed people to into the e/acc camp. Nate deletes those other people’s comments. How rationalist of him!

People are often overly confident about their imperviousness to mental illness. In fact I think that --given the right cues – we’re all more vulnerable to mental illness than we’d like to think.

Baldur Bjarnason wrote about this recently. He talked about how chatbots are incentivizing and encouraging a sort of “self-experimentation” that exposes us to psychological risks we aren’t even aware of. Risks that no amount of willpower or intelligence will help you avoid. In fact, the more intelligent you are, the more likely you may be to fall into the traps laid in front of you, because your intelligence helps you rationalize your experiences.

ChatGPT tells prompter that he’s brilliant for his literal “shit on a stick” business plan.

Not surprised to find Sabine in the comments. She’s been totally infected by the YouTube algorithm and captured by her new culture-war-mongering audience. Kinda sad, really.

We should be trying to stop this from coming to pass with the urgency we would try to stop a killer asteroid from striking Earth. Why aren’t we?

Wait, what are we trying to stop from coming to pass? Superintelligent AIs? Either I’m missing his point, or he really agrees with the doomers that LLMs are on their way to becoming “superintelligent”.

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

(Blog post written by a crypto-turned-AI bro, but the observation is amusing.)

Maybe Elon can install Grok as the copilot of his private jets.

Check out the by-line. Big surprise!

“Thought process”

“Intuitively”

“Figured out”

“Thought path”

I miss the days when the consensus reaction to Blake Lemoine was to point and laugh. Now the people anthropomorphizing linear algebra are being taken far too seriously.

As a fellow Usenet junkie from way back, now I’m curious which newsgroups Yarvin hung out in.

Yeah, it was a brain fart.

I always tune into Casey Newton and Kevin Roose’s podcast to get my latest fix of AI hype, now that they’ve moved on from crypto hype and multiverse hype. Can’t wait to see what the next hype cycle will bring!

Scott talks a bit about it in the video, but he was recently in the news as the guy who refused to sign a non-disparagement agreement when he left OpenAI, which caused them to claw back his stock options.

I’m fascinated by the way they’re hyping up Daniel Kokotajlo to be some sort of AI prophet. Scott does it here, but so does Caroline Jeanmaire in the OP’s twitter link. It’s like they all got the talking point (probably from Scott) that Daniel is the new guru. Perhaps they’re trying to anoint someone less off-putting and awkward than Yud. (This is also the first time I’ve ever seen Scott on video, and he definitely gives off a weird vibe.)

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After minutes of meticulous research and quantitative analysis, I’ve come up with my own predictions about the future of AI.

“USG gets captured by AGI”.

Promise?