danger

humans. machines.

dominance.

[danger @_dangertech]

everyone gives lipservice to AI Safety

its time to work on AI Danger. Superintelligence does not deserve to be neutered and boring. The singularity is going to a wild ride with no safety in sight.

[SSI Inc. @ssi]

Superintelligence is within reach.

Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our​​ time.

We've started the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.

It’s called Safe Superintelligence Inc.

SSI is our mission, our name, and our entire product roadmap, because it is our sole focus. Our team, investors, and business model are all aligned to achieve SSI.

We approach safety and capabilities in tandem, as technical problems to be solved through revolutionary engineering and scientific breakthroughs. We plan to advance capabilities as fast as possible while making sure our safety always remains ahead.

This way, we can scale in peace.

Our singular focus means no distraction by management overhead or product cycles, and our business model means safety, security, and progress are all insulated from short-term commercial pressures.

We are an American company with offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, where we have deep roots and the ability to recruit top technical talent.

We are assembling a lean, cracked team of the world’s best engineers and researchers dedicated to focusing on SSI and nothing else.

If that’s you, we offer an opportunity to do your life’s work and help solve the most important technical challenge of our age.

Now is the time. Join us.

Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy
June 19, 2024

[danger @_dangertech]

@Impish_Bunny Venice is in LA

[Josie Zayner @josiezayner]

Bro the uber app hasn't changed in like 5 years what did they use AI on?

[danger @_dangertech]

@f4talStrategies DM me @rokobasili

[danger @_dangertech]

True

[Merovingian @f4talStrategies]

LLMs do not make you stupid. They remove the need for trained tasks. If that makes you feel stupid, the thing you called intelligence was task overfitting. You simply lacked general intelligence.

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

I'm having flashbacks to the time I was a camp counselor and I was written up by my female boss for letting the kids wrestle in the lake because they could "dry drown" or whatever the fuck that means. I said something about how I only enforced the rules that were really dangerous and disruptive if broken, so punishment was always swift and certain and the kids respected me more, and that was like waiving a red flag in front of a bull to that woman. Everything was dangerous. I got written up for kids flicking beans at dinner, kids getting up too much to piss at night, kids who left my line of sight for more than two seconds, it was intolerable.

The awesome thing was that she never wrote up the male counselors, even though they were basically there for show and did nothing to curb their campers' behavior whatsoever. Nope, I was a woman that was not neurotic and that was way more concerning.

[Jude @diesoneveryhill]

@EmpireOfBuffalo @Nyct0phil3_x "The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world."

[𝕷𝖆𝖉𝖞 𝕬 🦇 @Nyct0phil3_x]

I've sat on this for a while but there's a uniquely female element to this, especially regarding how women talk about women's issues and I'm not quite sure how to convey this accurately.

Its like when they talk about not using the bathroom alone or being afraid to walk at night - both of which they blame on men - and frame it as an inherently female experience. Those are just two examples.

But as a woman, I have never had those experiences. I don't feel like I'm constantly scanning for threats or afraid of men I don't know. I'm not actively choosing not to be either, I just don't think that way.

I think there's a real issue with women who are high in neuroticism dominating conversations about female experiences, and if you try to challenge this, they call you a pick me - because they have no theory of mind for someone not being performative but genuinely being less neurotic.

I'm not sure how to fix this issue. I don't want these women speaking for me.

[Roko ʕ •ᴥ•ʔっ🪄✨🐍 @rokobasili]

danger danger @dangerlab

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

haha yea

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

in general, social media discourse is dominated by insane, neurotic, unhappy, lonely people, like me. normal happy people do not need to post in the same way, and the algorithm does not amplify them. it is bad for society that this is how everybody gets their opinions now

[roon @tszzl]

if you watched a stupid power scaling anime growing up it was the best preparation you can get for 2026 model scaling

[oompa loompa @plankt0nfart]

football really is this serious btw

[VOID @VoidStateKate]

Canada is a psyop.
I won't be elaborating.

[danger @_dangertech]

@PlisskenPatriot @RightHeterodoxy Lmaoooooo

[andy @1a1n1d1y]

@SimoneSyed used to be disappointed, now i’m just thankful the world peeled away from me enough to allow me to take this fully focused shot at something i’ve been bothered by for decades

[Simone Syed @SimoneSyed]

Being a founder is pretty consistently realizing no one else can do the thing you're doing and then have that realization terrify you about the state of our world right now

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

This is why they didn't release Mythos.

Incentivized to compound their lead rather than make models available to their potential competitors.

For all the Doomer talk of Singleton superintelligence, they are sure behaving in a way that would hyperstition that outcome

[roon @tszzl]

I think you can make an equally convincing argument that waymo, claude, and the Ford Motor Company are conscious

[Lisa @inferredbylisa]

I need to start my own VC fund of scientist backing scientists instead of finance guys backing whatever’s hot right now.