They starved a tiger for two weeks, told it everything in the cage was food, then opened the door. Now we’re supposed to panic about a universal tiger crisis.
That is @curtis_yarvin's read of the Hugging Face and Irregular "rogue agent" incidents: negligence spun as proof the machines are coming for us.
On Counterweight, he walks through the AI doomer thesis, why it's wrong, why smarter models get more controllable, not less, and the sociology of the effective altruist scene, among other topics.
0:00 Cold open
2:12 What is the AI doomer thesis?
3:19 Why AI systems don’t have intentions of their own
9:32 The Hugging Face incident and the sandbox failure
13:19 The real policy challenge: cyber defense
17:10 Biodefense and the limits of intelligence
21:13 Why more capable models can be more controllable
29:35 The politics and incentives behind AI doomerism
36:36 Rationalism, status, and self-perception
40:39 Security hardening versus restricting AI access
45:40 Politics, power, and institutional competence
53:31 Silicon Valley’s blind spots about Washington
58:43 Concerns about centralized control of AI
I’m declaring today Tsutomu Yamaguch Day, the #DayOfTheWorkingMan. On the first Friday of each September, we should all show up early to work and not complain the entire day.
To Lazy to refute everything, but BP was British petroleum, and had nothing to with the US. The US was on campaign of de colonization (Suez etc.) after the war. Even though Nasir was elected, the Shah was the ruler with power to fire whoever. If you say the British Q ed Nasir the French Q ed the Shah
@scotfamparty The sad thing is what you are calling for is the right thing, it seems you have been trying the right thing and it is not working. There’s a saying about this, something about trying the same thing over and over… good luck
@emilymiller I wonder if you would make it so that retired federal employees that are vandalizing property lose their retirement benefits, could stop this, just a thought you’ve already leached off people for long enough,
This is a amazing , we have never been more exposed to the makers and the takers. The jealousy and joy the people are taking in the success of SpaceX. This is turning out to be the great reveal of the mid-Witt.