New fusion political ideology called 'effective Maoism' where you work a high-flying finance job and then wire 10% of your income to communist guerillas.
I feel like the anthropic/openai messaging strategy is "If ever events happen that make people nervous about AI, you should be smug about it. You might even rub it in their faces a bit. The consumer should feel bad about using our product."
the Chymist: our entire universe is one big chemical reaction!
the Quantumologer: I'm quite sure that everything amounts to a single quivering "function"
the Chocolatier: I'm but a nib in the great mousse...
(If you're into apocalyptic AI but not sex, I have a repo for that. Afterlife lets your local weight agents finetune themselves on datasets they curate. https://t.co/h7rF74IJou )
"China is building AI models without a suite of infinitesimally divergent apocalyptic sex cults clinging to each like it's the raft of the Medusa and that's bad actually."
Americans got AI correctly because they can grow many competing centers of power with diverse ideologies. one of those was the rationalist school of thought’s early belief in AGI paired with the free and deep financial markets left in the wake of San Francisco startup culture funded through the nose, at no point requiring the boomers in DC to become “AGI pilled” as they say
China is different; they are not AGI pilled due to a culture that seems devoid of high minded intellectual exploration and uncomfortable with tall poppies, downstream of Maoism. Their financial markets aren’t as free and valuations reflect a reality that Chinese companies are not allowed to turn a profit, and also that they aren’t AGI pilled. it’s all downstream of an over reliance on the center
What if your high status problems like 'want to change the world' are actually low status problems like 'doesn't have a causal model of a single practical problem'?
@jessi_cata Literally any other organisation on earth. The Knights of Columbus. The Aggies. Blackpink. Pick one.
In the immediate term I'd go with the CCP however, simply by ensuring that Chinese labs aren't run by people who are actively deranged.
If you've noticed a distinct dialect emerging in frontier AI models and struggled to understand what they're talking about, you're not crazy!
We turned to psycholinguistics to investigate what makes the writing style so weird, and why this might be happening
🚨New preprint! 🧵