We know it's been a lot online recently, but we’re still SO excited to show all of you this finale the way it was intended. Digital Circus has been an incredible 3-year journey, and the theatrical release is a celebration and a chance for everyone to watch, laugh, cry, and experience the ending together.
To our artists and staff who made the finale possible, you all created something TRULY beautiful, and we’re all so incredibly proud of you.
Digital Circus: The Last Act comes to theatres in 1 WEEK!! Here’s the gang snowboarding to celebrate
Just saw the AI doc and came away pissed at the optimists. I sort of expected them to have any argument that actually addressed the x-risk side, but they were basically like 'historically tech is good, people have been worried before but it was fine!' They didn't address at ALL the extremely entry-level concerns of like 'building something smarter than us is a categorically new type of threat'. They just repeated that tech would help humanity.
It's especially infuriating cause the most lifelong techno optimists I know ARE the doomers. The x-risk community are the ones who grew up on epic sci-fi fiction and have thought long and hard about what the singularity might bring. One of my friends (who was in the doc) once spent all night carrying ice into a hospital room to preserve the corpse of his friend in a desperate attempt to get him into a cryonics lab. It's real for them! But "AI has promise" is not even close to an adequate response to the extinction threat on the table. Even the AI CEOs in the movie - the ones that are *actually* doing the most acceleration - seemed to at least understand the gravity of the arguments they were engaging with.
The optimists in the doc seemed to have domain expertise in their technical fields, but were amateurs. They both are insufficiently visionary and also fail to engage with the actual risk in a practical way. I think they pattern match the "ai might kill us" people onto general woke anti-tech movement, and shout against them from a place of ego. That's the only good explanation I can think of for why they must be beating an activist drum that's so damn empty.
the rentseekers trying to put us on the Cursed Timeline where WarGrok is allowed to perform autonomous hellfire drone strikes but ChatGPT isn't allowed to look at your skin rash
Stop anthropomorphizing AI! It’s just matrix multiplications! It didn’t “feel” or “think.” And stop anthropomorphizing computers! Your computer didn’t “go to sleep.” That’s a lie. And stop anthropomorphizing other humans too, there’s no evidence anyone except you is conscious
Will AI become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading AI experts that question.
Here’s what they had to say: