Tom Whyman

@HealthUntoDeath

Philosopher. Hate AI, love my wife and kids, simple as. Email: tomwhyman@googlemail.com

Gateshead, Northumbria Joined December 2010

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Tom Whyman @HealthUntoDeath Aug 26, 2022

On Simpsons as language and ritual. Also the time Chris Bryant thought Tom Usher was threatening to have him beaten to death with hammers because he'd failed to understand a Sideshow Bob meme

FT Weekend Magazine @FTMag Aug 26, 2022

‘The Simpsons is not just a TV show. The Simpsons is a language.’

@HealthUntoDeath’s essay, out today

on.ft.com/3e1bjb3
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Tom Whyman @HealthUntoDeath 3d

I have invented a software So Bad it makes people want to vote for the American Democratic Party.

Tom Whyman @HealthUntoDeath 5d

New wedge issue just dropped

Owen Jones Verified account @owenjonesjourno 5d

A Labour MP is tweeting about the dangers of oral sex.

This is frankly insane
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Tom Whyman @HealthUntoDeath 5d

People will watch stuff like this and be like, "there's no way they're taking over the world." No. This is precisely *why* they'll take over the world.

Husk Verified account @huskirl Nov 1

Asking my AI teacher how to spell seventeen

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Tom Whyman @HealthUntoDeath 6d

Aspiring grand vizier arguing that it might be a good idea to turn over all power to a 'godlike Sultan' who spends all day in the harem with his women and his eunuchs so only the grand vizier ever gets to ask him what to do

Carl Verified account @HistoryBoomer Nov 1

Scott Alexander arguing that in the future it might be a good idea to turn all power over to a “godlike AI.”

I understand he’s not saying this is the only option, but even as a possible option, this kind of thinking gives me the creeps.

Not least, because it would probably be impossible to know for sure if a “godlike AI” were “fully aligned.”

I’m team Keep Humans In Charge!

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