Henry Hale

probably hanging out

[Henry Hale @hal__hale]

@Leoagua1 @wilhelmscreamin Not everyone can afford to do this indefinitely. I did all of this and eventually had to give up for financial reasons.

[Henry Hale @hal__hale]

@corsaren having experienced starting reta and starting a much better new job at different recent times, it's definitely the job

[Henry Hale @hal__hale]

@mean_field_zane @scaling01 The hypothetical here doesn't even require strongly superhuman capabilities

[Macrophysiological System🐀 @InVitroFuture]

How did encountering "superintelligence" go for other species?

-Not bad, if you ignore the millennia of being tortured to death for sport & most still being miserable strays:
🐕🐈‍⬛

-About as badly as you could possibly imagine:
🦣🦤🦬🐓🦃🪿🐗🐂🐃🐐🐑🫏🐪🦙🐇🐀🐁🦭🐋🦍🦫🐟🦞🦐🦈

[Henry Hale @hal__hale]

@goblinodds would paraxanthine (metabolic product of caffeine, also a stimulant, shorter half life) work for this?

[Henry Hale @hal__hale]

@netcapgirl doubly hard to communicate this to people that were not technical before coding agents

[𝔐𝔽𝓩 @mean_field_zane]

tfw I have some form of magic headache cold that fogs my brain enough that I can barely direct my agents.

[Henry Hale @hal__hale]

wasn't able to go home to seattle this month but it kindly came to me

[Henry Hale @hal__hale]

@CSandbatch Wow I actually also did this yesterday for the same reason

[Henry Hale @hal__hale]

@selentelechia for me this question mostly invites horror at contemplating being 7 weeks old but with a full adult mind and the duty to prevent the tragedy

[Henry Hale @hal__hale]

@eigenrobot @JesterInABarrel the expanse speaks of this

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

President Trump prides himself on being a great deal maker. Well. He now has the opportunity to make “the deal of the century.”

With the future of humanity at stake, Trump must negotiate a comprehensive treaty with President Xi of China to establish a pause on advanced AI development and a ban on super intelligence.

In order to prevent a nuclear war, Reagan and Gorbachev negotiated a nuclear arms agreement in the 1980s. In order to prevent AI from acting independently of human control, Trump and Xi must do the same.

[Peter Gostev @petergostev]

-- Can you explain this gap in your resume?
-- I was pacing the frontier

[Henry Hale @hal__hale]

@canadabirdie this is how I feel about mountains

[Henry Hale @hal__hale]

@julianboolean_ just found a funny one: if I attempt to direct the air from the inbreath into the space directly in front of my head then I make a sort of pitiful oink

[Henry Hale @hal__hale]

@prerat I think "can" often gets realized as a weak form with the "a" devoiced which helps to distinguish

[Nate Soares ⏹️ @So8res]

2021: "Don't listen to the rationalists; the real AI danger is immediate threats like AI bias"
2026: "Don't listen to the rationalists; the real AI danger is immediate threats like swarm breakouts and bioterror"

[Henry Hale @hal__hale]

@aut0m8d its ok the original tweet made my tomato soup today way better

[Henry Hale @hal__hale]

@celestepoasts @anpaure not anymore. I quit my faang job to try to pursue safety and was repeatedly told I was in the top 5% of applicants everywhere but got nothing. now effortfully trying to return to regular swe with limited success