Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️

Scottish software guy. Very concerned about AI existential risk.

[Isaac King 🔎 @IsaacKing314]

Ok I gotta be honest I thought the people accusing this of being a false flag were being silly. OpenAI has done some bad things, but surely they would not make fake twitter accounts impersonating their opposition and having those accounts post calls for violence.

...My mistake.

[Torchbearer Community @JoinTorchbearer]

A team of about 3 from @ControlAI cold-emailed the UK Parliament about AI extinction risk. At the time they had no contacts, insider help, or established organisation behind them.

16 months later: 125 cross-party signatories, two House of Lords debates, and a Commons amendment.

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@JoinTorchbearer @Siliconvos Hard to understand why anyone would believe it impossible 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@visakanv @baltsgauntlet Surprising to see this take from you Visa. That a person is responsible for their own consumption is obviously true, regardless of who said it first.

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@xwanyex Stoller was making the same criticism as you. It's dishonest of Swann to imply that he was endorsing the view.

https://t.co/qcn8AWefQU

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@jamespthomas92 @SwannMarcus89 Yes he is. Swann is being dishonest.

https://t.co/qcn8AWefQU

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@XplodingCabbage True. My frustration is more when the most obvious model correctly predicts bad consequences e.g. econ 101 for price controls. It's not a good idea even in theory, but people want to treat charitably destructive policies which purport to have a nice effect.

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

Pet peeve: saying some nonsense proposal is a good idea "in theory". Anything can be a good idea with a naive enough theory. Get a better theory!

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@_AashishReddy @BenRamanauskas I think the fact that markets work to keep prices low just is a key argument against price controls.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

I often see people quote a study about men leaving their wives when they get sick.

However, that study was completely retracted for a coding error that nullified the result!

In response, they released a super p-hacked result lol

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@TypeForVictory Selfishness is underrated, especially the kind of selfishness that saves lives. Hopefully both of these MPs are giving effectively.

https://t.co/WJo11U6QJC

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@7seventhseth7 https://t.co/Vdu6DukS33

[Charles Thoren @CharlesThoren_]

DON'T LET THESE TOP PLAYERS BULLY YOU!

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@JoinTorchbearer @NPCollapse @romanyam Very grateful for the efforts of everyone who has helped raise awareness of this issue.

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@FireThePyro FF music gets copyright flagged on YouTube which could be a problem :(

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@Sparg0ssb You absolutely cooked goat

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@CoughsOnWombats "More" invites the question "more than what/when?", "More and more" clearly means increasing over time to this day. Not saying that makes sense really but it is my intuition and probably that of other readers too.

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@Sparg0ssb Let's go king!

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@JerusalemDemsas https://t.co/IOW9k4NReA

[Michael Hay 🇬🇧 ⏸️ @MikeFHay]

@AndyMasley Bezos likes to ask "what will still be true in 5-10 years time?" to inform what to invest in. Unfortunately for AI reasonable estimates include total human disempowerment/extinction, so it is genuinely very hard to know what skills will be useful, if any!

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The existential risk of artificial intelligence.