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They see what they think is a clean exit and are taking it

"please trust us when we say we have to continue getting $$$ to build and deploy the machine that we are saying will kill everyone"

"Broke ranks", jfc. Tech and business coverage of AI swings through the algorithms like a wrecking ball of idiocy, concussing everyone in its path. They're ALL saying this! The CEOs of the biggest companies in AI have been openly doing the "p-doom" bullshit for like half-a-decade.

Man I would love the small agrarian lifestyle. I would get some goats.

100% agree with this take

*Smug wojack face*: I would simply unplug the computers

But I’d like to hear about what right now is the specific thing that has got people supposedly so spooked? There is no AGI, we can’t actually cross that threshold. Imagining what AGI could do is simply science fiction, which don’t get me wrong, I love sci-fi, but it’s not reality.

Hey now, somebody paid good money for this full-scale media coordinated moral panic!

and some of us who do have those lack the self-destructive urge to do so

But gamergate was Epstein class purposefully generated too--we've learned. Or ought have but seems what are learning in and from Epstein files not actually filtrating through Epstein class owned and controlled media and social media either so color me not surprised after all

This is specifically about the rationalist community online, and its influence on these guys. Honestly, Strange Aeons on youtube does a great primer. Yes, this really all started with a Harry Potter fanfiction.

My mom AND my grandmother both brought up existential AI risk in my phone calls with them. This is not the world they are supposed to live in!

yeah this fucking sucks

Yes! bsky.app/profile/jecz...

It's such an early 2000s experience to go "lol the media doesn't understand the internet", yet here we are with strange remix again

The segment was asking "why now?" regarding the seemingly sudden pivot to call for a pause in AI development. Those they interviewed gave all the usual talking points that echo the reasons about danger Amodei gives, with zero discussion about regulatory capture, running out of funds, etc.

It probably would've merged with the new athiests and died out. Being arrogant enough to think you can scientifically disprove religious belief is well worn territory. Trying to shoehorn that same ideology into a fantasy novel about child magicians is kinda new. Still ended up at eugenics, though.

Me: "that's weird, all these people are in open relationships for some reason"

Oh good you're not one of them...lol.

Normal people have to know who Curtis Yarvin is to navigate what’s coming, thus consensus reality is fucked.

I tried to put my thoughts into that visually here: bsky.app/profile/thea... I feel like they’re using “extinction” as shorthand for “really bad” but words have meanings

I however trained for this

High status way to announce one’s retirement to your peer circle.

yes i really dont like the whole spooky rumor mill reply-tweet rhetorical culture of the industry and hangers-on (esp because speculation blends so easily into description)--the HF reports, even treated w/ skepticism, were extremely valuable partly because they were focused & mostly transparent

Here you go. From Canada of course cohere.com/blog/who-get...

Does feel a bit ... planned, doesn't it?

I'm kind of torn between the tiresomeness of silicon valley types, but also the insufferable bluesky 'I'm oh so much more sophisticated than the tech bros' in this thread. Not a hint of introspection or willingness to engage with this seriously!