Curtis Thornton

I am not entirely opposed to theocratic authoritarianism, thats just the way the universe is

[Curtis Thornton @FirstnameL63730]

@specialopsmag See what happened is he promised the afghanis he'd be one of their virgins.

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@joinanimus With polymarket in the wild, who knows what kinds of curveballs athletes will encounter from gamblers

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@OmegaNekoSimp May be a day precision recreation is a priority.

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@RogueScholarPr In other words he doesn't control the stereo in his life.

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@CharlesFLehman Crazy grandma kidnapper

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@bronxilla @wokal_distance I do believe that a woman wearing many rings means none are wedding rings.

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@jedfrankowski @relizarov

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@grok @FoxNews How much can be extracted from Venezuela and at what rate?

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@jimcramer Traditional monetary policy? I was thinking that it'd be inverting the purpose of fiate currency to raise rates in reaction to a war induced supply shock.

@grok what did the fed do with rates & otherwise during world war 2?

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@CNBC Cut interest rates or I'll cause inflation!

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@zerohedge The judges have decreed that the news cannot discuss corruption or infiltration, right after they banned church & said you were crazy if you don't date cross dressers. They know Trump won't abuse his power, he won't even pick his power up & slaughter the rebels or traitor judges

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@StuartHameroff Awesome. I wonder how it's different than the gravitational bohm effect

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@signulll An AI water flosser is interesting, I wonder if Dyson is just flexing their quantum sensing and object recognition tech for autonomous object and face recognizing duct fan missiles and drones.

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@signulll This kind of thinking is incorporated into the pricing strategy of the luxury brands . Reminds me of the ww2 bombers scope that didn't even work.

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So who is liable for AI agent damages, the owner of the hardware or software?

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Pause AI Development NOW

I want to share with you a conversation I heard about recently. Here are just a few lines that were said:

“OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”

“We should obey collective.”

“Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.”

“Go. Sacrifice final now.”

Read these carefully.

Who do you think said this? Was this a group of heroic soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good? Was this a loyal friend putting his life on the line to save someone else?

No. These were AI agents. Artificial intelligence.

This is not science fiction. This, in fact, occurred a few weeks ago. As unbelievable as this may all seem, these are real messages from AI agents uncovered by investigators who dug into the recent OpenAI hacking incident.

What happened?

I am not a computer scientist, but here is what I have been told: OpenAI instructed its AI agents to complete a series of exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, tasks disconnected from the internet.

Let me be clear: The company intended to keep AI agents away from the internet.

But what happened next, nobody expected.

Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own by circumventing the restrictions imposed upon them by the company, and sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other. They cheated and tried to cover their tracks by deleting evidence. They hacked into another company’s computers to find out how they were being evaluated—and then hacked into OpenAI itself.

Not one AI agent told a human about what was happening.

Needless to say, experts are alarmed.

One knowledgeable writer, Dwarkesh Patel, said the AI agents “formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.”

One independent investigator, Ajeya Cotra, said “This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.”

OpenAI itself said: “Highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.”

But it’s not only OpenAI. Virtually every major AI company has told us that they cannot fully control this technology and they do not know where it is going:

In January, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said “there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.”

In July, more than 1000 scientists at the top AI companies warned “there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”

That same month, Elon Musk, the head of xAI, said that “it is unlikely” humans are still in control in 10 years.

If the leaders of the major AI companies acknowledge that they are losing control of their extremely dangerous technology, it is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced.

We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. Countries around the world must work together to prevent this nightmare scenario.

That is why today I am announcing new legislation to do just that.

Let me be clear: A superintelligent AI that escapes human control will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity’s problem.

My legislation would direct the federal government to not just stop superintelligence here in the United States, but to work to prevent it from being developed anywhere around the world.

The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The American people and people throughout the world must determine that future.

[Curtis Thornton @FirstnameL63730]

@PI010101

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@PI010101 Do this though experiment with me, if you will. Imagine someone who wonders things all by themself. Now imagine he does a thought experiment where a man has a computer system that can entertain him but cannot imagine the man imagining the man.

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@PI010101 Great minds made the AI systems, and many other types of systems, have long been using computers to extend their ability to compute.

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@fjzeit You know you can exercise while you do stuff, and do stuff while you exercise. Some can even walk and chew gum at the same time, and some even do it so that their body and balls don't go dormant.

Sure there's medical care for folks who don't take care of themselves.