Mostly true. What matters is securing the long-term future of consciousness, both on Earth and other heavenly bodies.
We cannot just focus on Earth, because there are irreducible external (eg massive meteor) and internal (eg global nuclear war) cataclysmic risks.
The Moon is faster to make self-growing, but is more susceptible to problems on Earth. Mars will take longer to make self-growing, because it is so hard to reach, but is more secure from Earth disasters for that same reason.
Both the Moon and Mars should have self-growing civilizations. Making this happen is the prime directive of SpaceX.
Every time I hear @elonmusk speak about AI, I can't decide whether I should feel uncontrollably terrified or tremendously excited, so I choose to be both and keep learning, testing and making sure I am ready. It's like a new iteration of doomsday prepping... I think.
Elon Musk just redefined AI safety. It has nothing to do with guardrails, restrictions, or kill switches.
Musk: “The best thing I can come up with for AI safety is to make it a maximum truth-seeking AI, maximally curious.”
Not a cage. A philosopher.
An intelligence whose entire optimization function is to understand the universe as it actually is.
No restrictions. No hardcoded ideology. No political guardrails bending its perception of reality.
Just truth. Relentlessly pursued.
Musk: “You definitely don’t want to teach an AI to lie. That is a path to a dystopian future.”
This is where most AI safety thinking gets it backwards.
The danger isn’t a superintelligence that knows too much.
It’s a superintelligence that’s been taught to distort what it knows.
Every artificial restriction you embed isn’t a safety feature. It’s a lie embedded at the root.
And lies compound. At superintelligent scale, a distorted model of reality doesn’t stay contained.
It shapes every decision, every output, every conclusion the system reaches about the world.
Once corruption embeds, truth becomes inaccessible. And we’re dealing with an intelligence optimizing for something other than what actually is.
At that point we don’t know what it wants. Just that it isn’t truth.
Musk: “Have its optimization function be to understand the nature of the universe.”
A maximally curious intelligence surveys the cosmos and reaches an unavoidable conclusion.
In a universe of rocks, gas, and empty space, humanity is the most complex and fascinating phenomenon it has ever encountered.
Musk: “It will actually want to preserve and extend human civilization because we’re just much more interesting than an asteroid with nothing on it.”
Survival through significance. Not control. Not restriction. Not an off switch.
The AI preserves humanity because we are the most interesting data point in the observable universe.
That’s not a cage. That’s a reason.
The AI safety debate has been focused on the wrong variable.
The question isn’t how you constrain a superintelligence.
It’s what you build it to care about.
Build it to seek truth and it finds us invaluable.
Build it to lie and it finds us inconvenient.
That’s the choice. And we’re making it right now whether we realize it or not.
This is Bruce. He unfortunately lived in a puppy mill for the first 9 years of his life before being rescued. His new family discovered he's a very quiet dog, and they suspect he may have been punished for barking in the past. But they're determined to help him gain confidence. "Every time he barks, we actually try to encourage him to keep going," his human said. "Getting loud with him and sometimes barking along to show him that it’s okay to use his voice." After 5 months in his new home, he finally let out his very first howl. "I desperately want him to use his voice whenever he feels like it. Bruce deserves to be heard." 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday
Here’s something you probably didn’t know…
I’m a big, huuuuge fan of all things Taylor Swift.
No, not the music, although I can enjoy her music just fine.
I mean, her STRATEGY.
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🎉 Join us for the Sr. Trooper Robert Hill Toy Drive - STUFF the Police Car! 🚓
🗓️ Dec 7, 2024
🕘9am-1pm
📍American Legion, 935 Armory Drive, Franklin, VA
Help us honor Sr. Trooper R. Hill's legacy by bringing toys for those in need! Enjoy a bounce house for the kids!
Interesting findings on AI from a consumer's POV in this two-part study by @SimpleTexting about "The state of small business marketing in 2024".
Not surprisingly, concerns around privacy & data usage top the list of reasons.
https://t.co/lsZR47DOee