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[Casey @rodarmor]

@ojblanchard1 Give me $5. It will not make any difference to the way you live.

[Casey @rodarmor]

@esotericthug fortunately gender is actually determined by NUM_DICKS % 2 == 0

[Casey @rodarmor]

As the barest courtesy, the AIs could at least bestow upon us the sweet release of death.

[Hell Money @hellmoneypod]

Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us?

On the Halloween special episode of Hell Money, Casey @Rodarmor and Erin Redwing @realizingerin dress up as @AnthropicAI's Dario Amodei and @OpenAI's Sam Altman to discuss AI doomerism and the possibility that superintelligent AI is going to kill us all.

Nothing ever happens. Everything always happens.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 @sama vs @DarioAmodei
6:34 P(doom), AI Doomerism, Rationalism, & Super Intelligence (ASI)
10:04 AI Doomsday Scenarios
13:30 How Superintelligent AI Could Escape Containment
18:23 The Vulnerable World Hypothesis: Bioweapons & Nuclear Weapons
22:30 Agentic AI Worms & Hacking Everything
25:30 What If AI Takes Over the Internet?
28:55 Will AI Keep Humans Around?
33:30 Recursive Self-Improvement
38:55 The Case Against AI Doom
50:20 Are AI Doomers Afraid of Becoming Obsolete?
52:35 Building the Machine That Replaces You
59:35 AI Safetyism & Silicon Valley Doomer Culture
1:05:40 What If AI Just Plateaus?
1:09:50 The AI Bubble & Anthropic's IPO
1:14:00 Sacrificing Capital to the AI God

[Casey @rodarmor]

Dario Amodamor vs Sam Altwing on the podcast tomorrow.

[Hell Money @hellmoneypod]

AI IS GOING TO KILL US ALL

HMP Halloween Special drops TOMORROW at 12PM PST 💀🎃

[Casey @rodarmor]

@growing_daniel yes but a different guy

[Casey @rodarmor]

@BeccaAmilee I am still better than the LLMs at writing code, just much slower, and I still review and edit, where necessary, every line of code. It remains to be seen whether or not that will be necessary in a few years.

[Casey @rodarmor]

I'm going to pompously refer to myself as a classically-trained programmer for now on, as my artisanal code-typing skills slide from techno-priesthood class membership marker to manual-steam-engine-operator-level shibboleth.

[Casey @rodarmor]

@BeccaAmilee If I wasn't motivated by the latter, or I wasn't self-directed, and so I didn't get to chose what to build, I might feel very very differently, as the fun part of programming went away, but I wasn't happy about it being replaced by increased productivity.

[Casey @rodarmor]

Ord 0.29.1 is now available! A couple of notable changes:

- Correctly deserialize Bitcoin Core RPC responses containing anchor outputs

- New recursive endpoint `/r/block/<QUERY>` that returns the entire block

Share and enjoy!

https://t.co/LMkqMVDyE6

[Casey @rodarmor]

@erhannah very poignant

[Casey @rodarmor]

@Eziowl Misery loves company 😅

[Casey @rodarmor]

I learned something truly tragic: Thai iced tea is orange because they add food coloring. I thought it was the pure hearts of the Thai people that made their tea turn such a beautiful color 😭

[Casey @rodarmor]

Honestly kind of hilarious how often "no no, do it in a good way instead of a bad way" works with coding agents.

[Casey @rodarmor]

@bramcohen What are the things Claude does that you find most annoying? I find it moderately insufferable, but it's usually pretty easy to ignore.

[Casey @rodarmor]

@bramcohen Congrats! Glad to see it live!

[Casey @rodarmor]

Plant monitor product photo showing notification from "Harry Pepper".

[Casey @rodarmor]

Big blockers and communists both have good criticisms of bitcoin and capitalism. The problem is that they then go out and write moronic sci-fi fanfics about their completely unworkable alternatives with no grounding in reality.

https://t.co/s3ZPk4bYm5

[Casey @rodarmor]

@Bobbyfinu It's not that bad, if it changes a file you've already reviewed, you only see the new changes as unstaged.

[Casey @rodarmor]

If you want to avoid the full descent into vibe coding, and the sin and debauchery it entails, getting good at reviewing code is a huge help.

A workflow that works very well for me… 🧵

[Casey @rodarmor]

@maweaac I need to start training 💪😴