Alex Hedtke

Using rationality and compassion to make the world a better place, and having fun while doing it. 😎
Organizer, Kansas City Rationality and Effective Altruism.

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@MontyTaroko @Timodc Who specifically has claimed that current AI is a "threat to humanity"?

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@MontyTaroko @Timodc I agree it is global, and I actually have some pretty sophisticated thoughts on this I would be happy for you to critique, but first I would like for you to acknowledge you changed the subject.

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@MontyTaroko @Timodc Nobody thinks current generation AI is a threat to humanity. The entire conversation is about pausing development so we can delay those future AI risks.

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@tombibbys If they want to have any relevance at all, they should all band together and restrict ASML's EUV production and make a mutual aid agreement with Taiwan to restrict semiconductors. It would be a shit show, but it's the only way for them to have any impact on the US and China.

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@NC_State69420 @tombibbys What is your evidence it was astroturfed? All I've heard is [1. people being incredulous about its virality, which is not an argument] and [2. people formulating elaborate conspiracy theories with compounding improbabilities].

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@SearTamsen @charlesmonaco @AOC They could do it right now and someone else would just step in to take their place. They are right on all counts.

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@NC_State69420 @tombibbys AI Doomers have been around and talking loudly about these things for 20 years, including both on this panel. Just because you weren't listening to that space doesn't mean it was astroturfed.

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@LegendrSaiyajin @tombibbys You have not been listening if you think that the technology people are currently using is the concern, or in any way relevant besides showing the trajectory.

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@Eric_Schmitt Constituent from Kansas City here. Also the organizer for KC Effective Altruism. We are involved in AI security because there's no one else doing independent evals. Please support Hawley's S2938. This would put the oversight of AI back into the hands of the American people.

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@Eric_Schmitt Constituent from Kansas City here. Also the organizer for KC Effective Altruism. We are involved in AI security because there's no one else doing independent evals. Please support Hawley's S2938. This would put the oversight of AI back into the hands of the American people.

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@clairlemon @Aella_Girl @statisticalnick I'm glad you clarified that, but I hope you're doing something to address it. These are real people with careers, feelings, and lives, and public perception of them is influenced in part by your emotional response to them.

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@MatthewW_eacc @robertskmiles @MelissaKampers You are welcome to clarify what exactly you think I said that invoked ethics. But merely asserting it is not doing you any favors on claiming that I'm the one with nothing of value to bring.

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@TheZvi Frankenstein is the surname, and the monster is Victor Frankenstein's child. So calling the monster Frankenstein has always been correct. :)

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@MatthewW_eacc @robertskmiles @MelissaKampers Making a comparison to human actions is not an ethics point.

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@MatthewW_eacc @robertskmiles @MelissaKampers No, I wasn't? I was pointing out that going into space is a massively inefficient method of acquiring resources.

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@MatthewW_eacc @robertskmiles @MelissaKampers Our ethics as a species is unrelated to your original point. We have no reason to believe AI will constrain itself like we do.

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@Eric___Coe @MichaelTontchev They could stop right now and someone else would just step into their place. How is that not clear?

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@MatthewW_eacc @robertskmiles @MelissaKampers You can make the same argument for humanity. We could go into space to get our resources instead of destroying an ant hill to make a dam. But that has never once crossed our mind as an efficient use of our time and energy.

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@mh012012 @myhandle What is your steelman of the arguments?

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@hastingsGH1 @Paul__Walsh "No true Scotsman"