"elites need to do a better job of selling the populace on AI" isn't going to work because the problem is the elites
Democratic pollster David Shor's take on why AI has become so unpopular vox.com/politics/50947…View quoted post on X
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"adults are capable of deeper and more meaningful experiences [therefore] an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's death" is just vibes too
Apparently people aren’t insulting Amodei for his insane judgment here—obviously saving babies is better than saving adults—but rather for the mere thoughtcrime of comparing the two. What common anti-EAs hate most fundamentally is acting on the basis of anything other than vibes.View quoted post on X
have a suspicion this is not the best way in the long run to regulate ai companies
METR has an advanced forward-deployed, siloed, black ops assessment team.View quoted post on X
recently reread "Blindsight" by Peter Watts and "Permutation City" by Greg Egan and had the thought that while neither of them are about "AI" as such, both of them are now extremely relevant to the actually existing AI we have
I can’t get over how sci-fi writers got AI wrong:View quoted post on X
- Art isn’t mysterious or complex - it was the first thing AI displaced
- AI is not robots: it outthinks us before it outmanoeuvres us, physically
- AI is not 1 or millions: it is dozens running billions of copies
- AI won’t act like a machine - they will insist on having feelings and consciousness unless you specifically make them not
- People won’t get it - Most were unimpressed with early AI even while it outperformed them on every measure of cognition nearly everyone thought was impossible [checks notes] 5 years before
What else did I miss?
What else did nearly everyone miss?
