D. Scott Phoenix

🚀Partner at @fiftyyears
🤖AI founder ($250M raised, acq by Alphabet)
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[D. Scott Phoenix @fuelfive]

Why has no one cracked the brain?

Progress ep10 is live with @dileeplearning, my Vicarious co-founder, now head of AI research at @AsteraInstitute.

We discuss why today's AI is a dirigible, why scaling isn't enough, and whether rogue-AI stories are overhyped.

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@Jason_April I should've picked a better word - "sharing a quick update"

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"Peepeepoopoo" giving a quick update that the world is ending.

What a time to be alive.

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@KateMossadAgent @DeepDishEnjoyer I know! I love p4, just pointing out the weirdness of life

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@severeengineer 🤝

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@DeepDishEnjoyer I think the proximity of existential and silly just broke my brain.

"RSI is happening, says peepeepoopoo" is strictly more surreal than "RSI is happening"

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@Annie53565097 I don't think we need to justify or excuse it. And I think people can make mistakes and do penance, which is what I'm asking for.

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I am willing to forgive Jensen if we stop all future exports of NVIDIA and other American chips to China.

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

1) Jensen is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of this generation

2) he did something incredibly dumb

3) it was bad for America

4) but my guess is there was no bad intention

5) two mistakes don’t make a right, and I believe Jensen is irreplaceable for America’s AI leadership

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@Annie53565097 I think we could be the most moral country ever and then live forever under China's boot.

Maybe I'll settle for letting he who has no sin cast the first stone here...

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@iamDerekLeCroy I'm just one american. I didn't say "all of america forgives you" or something - I'm naming the conditions by which I, an american, would forgive him.

Feel free to name your own conditions, or not.

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@davidgobaud I think RSI and moral certainty are the two issues with anthropic

Jensen constantly pushed for lower restrictions, and also on muddying the definition of "last gen"

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@Etiam_Aliquam @shaunmmaguire There is a wide gulf between doing something wrong and doing something illegal. By all means his actions might be at the level of FBI charges, but I think more likely they fall below that - in which case I think my plan is the fallback.

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@Recliningdad @shaunmmaguire 🇺🇸

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@beefcubee and TPUS cerebras etc etc et

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@Ms_Anne_Throp @shaunmmaguire China would also win if Jensen gets fired by taking one of our top players out of the game. I think the biggest L to China is if Jensen stays but China gets cut off from advanced chips.

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@JosephCala @shaunmmaguire I'm struggling to understand what you're saying here. Can you use complete sentences?

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@jam57329 @shaunmmaguire Jensen has lobbied aggressively to keep selling chips to China. It also appears that he has been (at minimum) turning a blind eye to some of the smugglers.

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@PayPalled123 @shaunmmaguire Agreed, which is why this is an appropriate atonement for the professional part of his misconduct

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@Annie53565097 Agree that this country is suffering from moral bankruptcy.

Relatedly, firing every CEO who had an affair would devastate American industry. I think we should not kill ourselves here.

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@battle4prestige @shaunmmaguire Hopium

More likely, the spy had ample access to Jensen's private devices and so NVIDIA itself is compromised.

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@iamDerekLeCroy In a democracy, leaders lead at the pleasure of the public. Jensen put himself before America, and thus American forgiveness is exactly what is required.