Went looking for vintage existential risk takes but it's hard to beat Churchill's 1924 article where he argues that "the prevention of the supreme catastrophe ought to be the paramount object of all endeavour". https://t.co/MJfJnVn7MC
@StefanFSchubert Haha, fair enough. But "automation means economic growth and should as such be welcomed" is a statement the truth of which is not obvious to me in our current context. And I'd like to know how it's obvious to you at the same time as you're linking to disempowerment analyses.
@BryanCodes@besttrousers "The thing you thought was random isn't actually random", memorably the cause of the weird result in the 'hungry judge' study.
https://t.co/CBdcsw7yCm
@CharlesD353@StefanFSchubert One underrated source of weird results is clumsy mistakes. There isn't always a fancy logical flaw, sometimes there's just something wrong with the data entry or an off-by-one error in the code etc. etc.
@StefanFSchubert@peterwildeford To steelman the hypester: As worded, the idea may have been that it would take 6 more months for capabilities to reach that level - the actual deployment might take significantly longer. Probably still quite wrong, though.
@AnechoicMedia_ About 30% of car drivers dying on the road are under the influence of alcohol. About 50% of road fatalities happen at night but it's pretty impractical to totally avoid driving after nightfall.
@StefanFSchubert In Isaac Asimov's works, the idea shows up that there would be cool future discoveries in sociology and it would be all nice and mathematical. The Naked Sun has "the Teramin relationship".
https://t.co/6uPxjnYUEQ
@robbensinger@bananafitz "Millions of troops ... are marching off, prepared to pay the ultimate price for the Central Powers' noble cause, which remains unclear as of presstime, or that of the mighty Triple Entente alliance, which no one can really put his finger on, either."
@jkeatn@JMannhart@captgouda24@asteriskmgzn It took me several paragraphs and some googling until I understood that this was fiction. It is plausible that there have been people confused about sex and pregnancy and I was enthusiastic to learn all about it.
@TrumpWasHere@Steve_Sailer@ChuckRossDC Today OpenAI can deliver a red suit, a blue shirt and a white tie. It could not do this yesterday before the rollout. It has been 897 days since my prediction in the tweet above, so this took longer than I thought it would. @StefanFSchubert
@TrumpWasHere @also_ted @Steve_Sailer@ChuckRossDC No luck. It's just too weird for Dalle. Imagen might be able to do it. Whatever they'll have in a year or two will very likely be able to do it. https://t.co/WpJBJskToD
13. But what about the theory that Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro's son? They sure look alike, don't they? Well, the tool doesn't think they do. Here's a 0.0% match.