Brian Preskitt

YIMBY, because housing and transit will save us all. Ask me about Ulysses S. Grant

[Brian Preskitt @FlyingPhaser913]

@yhdistyminen We have an 8mo right now, and as magical as this time is, there's so much to look forward to!

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@SarahTheHaider Petrov Day is tomorrow!

Come to think of it, people aren't doing "more than protests" to prevent nuclear proliferation. Maybe ASI risk will be like that.

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@SarahTheHaider It's not a trick, and definitely not a lie. Instead of only being able to say "it won't happen", "it will definitely happen", or "I don't know", you put your uncertainty on a scale from 1 to 100.

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@typesfast I took econ in high school. It was a summer school class. The teacher basically just spent the whole time trying to convince the students not to open credit cards the minute they turn 18 and go into debt. Unclear if it worked!

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@Bunagayafrost While paused, we solve alignment, and then aligned ASI makes all our wildest dreams come true.

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@dab_chick 1. you're absolutely right to push back on that.
2. Maybe not a rando's basement, but open-weights models running on a network of data centers is super plausible
3. We can totally nuke ourselves to extinction, but we don't because of nuclear treaties. ASI may be like that.

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@MikeBales Yeah but a lot of people can't

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@Rabadash2 The AI doom scenarios where investors/governments/everyone are tripping over each other to give as many real-world capabilities to as many AIs as they can are a lot closer to reality. US DoW turned on Anthropic for not giving them unsupervised kill privileges earlier this year.

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@NathanpmYoung Eliezer for sure

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@AlanMCole I would have a harder time beating stockfish if Peter J Hegseth gave it unilateral control over all the drones though

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@aakashgupta Talk about a sunk cost!

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@orphcorp I like the idea of intentionally asking schools to ban IABIED to get free marketing from those library groups that promote banned and challenged books

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@ArmandDoma Yeah!

And like. If you just take whatever moral code you get by stochastic gradient descent, it's probably not gonna be the right one 🥲

[Brian Preskitt @FlyingPhaser913]

@naval Guys, which one's faster: recursive self improvement or civil courts?

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@clairlemon I have a baby. AI alignment has felt more important since he was born instead of less.

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@Entrepenulian Yes

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@Dan_Jeffries1 One thing will defeat the AI accelerationists easily: a misaligned superintelligence

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In retrospect, perhaps the most unrealistic part of IABIED will be the fact that Sable had to work so hard and have so much patience to gain control of meatspace tech

[Department of War CTO @DoWCTO]

Americanism, not effective altruism.

The United States will continue to be AI DOMINANT! 🇺🇸

[Brian Preskitt @FlyingPhaser913]

Guy who thinks South Asians can never share his values but an artificial superintelligence probably will

[Bo French @bofrench]

I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.

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@C0MEONACONE Worth it though! Your priorities change, but it's fine, you just handle it.

When one is ready, of course. But overall it's more doable than some people think.