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“We don’t understand why people aren’t more excited about AI…” - These Same People

"All the bad outcomes" like there's a real possibility of Skynet nuking us as opposed to AI companies burning literal tons of cash and some of their CEOs having to flee to Russia with their scammed cash they dicked out of us.

One of the many horrifying aspects of our online times is seeing the insane lengths people will go to avoid accepting they aren't liked.

"caution and humility" lmfao

We can't agree on the names of the Great Lakes, like we're going to agree on AI safety.

No one who thinks a conversational interface is reasonable actually cares about safety so I just straight up don’t believe this guy, though I’m willing to believe *he* believes all that: bsky.app/profile/jman...

It's all an attempt to shift responsibility off of the people trying to destroy the world for profit, and onto the machine they're using to do it. They want us to focus on The Ford Pinto as an entity rather than the engineers who built it and the corporate creatures who hid its flaws.

oh, i finally figured out what it reminds me of. that one moment waaaaaaaaay back in some... presidential campaign debate possibly? where trump's answer to "but you did tax crimes" was "yeah well you didn't stop me". that's what this sounds like: "it's somebody else's job to stop us, not ours"

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Desperate times call for desperate measures, right? Why don’t we turn the dial all the way up on the desperate times machine! Then we can justify anything we want to do!

Thats because they do not believe the doom machine is real and want to engage in regulatory capture of the tech

…if you had Global Apocalypse on your bingo card, you win!!

I think a missing part from the conversation is in how many scenarios an AI that goes rogue and might kill us all gets stopped by another AI. If they believe everyone is developing AI recklessly, but their AI is significantly more likely to be the solution, then it's rational to continue?

It's like if the backstory of Horizon: Zero Dawn were both real and also the players involved were INFINITELY more stupid than Faro was.

I thought the Golden Path is what we get some time *after* breaking all the thinking machines.

"we need it yesterday" may be true, but he's the one who didn't do it yesterday

Press him and I imagine "we need to work together on AI control" translates to "give us more money."

We *are* talking about the same people who quite literally read Don't Build The Torment Nexus and decided to build The Torment Nexus... www.vice.com/en/article/p...

I'm going to be stuck with the mental image of skin versailles all day (you meant "un petit versailles"; "un peu" is more like "a little bit of")

Another thing I didn't know: The French government nationalized all church lands and buildings, so owns e.g. Notre Dame de Paris (the building). The church still owns the contents of the buildings, and there's a complicated church-and-state-separation thing going on about who controls what

This is how you control narratives, by making them sensational, dramatic, and overwhelming, stringing along audiences hoping for a big climax The real solution, regulatory structure, is so boring, so anti-climatic, you don’t even have to worry about it actually happening

If only the subject had come up before...

Even beyond random people...

Right? If they continue in this way, sooner or later a Luigi will come forward.

This is all part of their comic book fantasy world lens. “So yeah the evil scientist was the bad guy, but he was a genius. Maybe a mad genius, sure - but the superhero was really just some muscle bound jock Chad with a big chin who got girls!” At least AI bros know who they are, I guess.

“Our product is so powerful guys, seriously. It scares us how powerful and special our product is. Please give us more money to continue building our super powerful product that scares us with how awesome it is.”

Did everyone forget about Dark Brandon?

I vaguely remember Dick Cheney had a threshold value of 1% for taking action against potential catastrophic effects.

Right now it feels like there’s a whole group of people open source building a nuclear weapon that if successful will be powerful enough to ignite the earth’s air and end all life,… and the response is ‘meh,… let’s keep building it’ bsky.app/profile/fain...

ai sickos are just, yknow, dumb idiot failhuman sickos who care more about the metrics and signifiers that they have been fed by global hegemony for the last, mmm, like 100, 80 years at absolute minimum, than knowing what the fuck what they're doing actually means for themselves and the rest of us

Kaifabe