🧵(1/12) My Thoughts on the Current State of AI
While the optimistic takes given by figures such as @DaveShapi are fun to think about, and are 100% possible under the right circumstances, no technology is ever used as it is originally thought to be used.
We will be introducing bipartisan legislation to block any and all purchases of Russian oil. It will be called the “Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Act.” It will be forced to the Floor via discharge and it will pass overwhelmingly. #PeaceThroughStrength
Nasza ambasada raportuje braki paliw nawet w Moskwie, która jest zawsze preferowana w zaopatrzeniu. Ponadto, poważne źródła donoszą, że Ukraina uszkodziła już około 50% rosyjskich zdolności rafinacyjnych. To skąd wezmą się nadwyżki na eksport?
"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything"
You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition.
One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them.
A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math?
"Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up.
My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes.
"The social disruption will be enormous!"
Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach.
Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already?
A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up.
Accelerate.
My experience as Intel Chairman taught me the time to stop a crisis is yesterday. The first role of our government is to keep us safe. Following Dario Amodei’s warning, I believe we must slow down development of AI in order to allow the government and its partners to catch up and put stricter protocols and guardrails in place to protect us from the rapid advancements we’ve seen.
In the Senate, I will make it a top priority to pass the national security framework we need on AI.
@kimmonismus I was literally talking with my friend last week about how excited I was about RSI and how the releases will become practically rolling. Turns out that excitement was premature and that we have let a guy on Twitter freak everyone out and 3 CEOs commit strategic suicide for us all