James Kanka

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Quote: "This is how USAID spent your tax dollars"

I think people have lost the will to try fact-check this guy due to the volume of lies he spreads.

Also it's actually pretty difficult with this image and quite time consuming.

It just happens I had nothing better to do. /1

[Garrison Lovely is in London @GarrisonLovely]

With many millions of deaths expected. This is so far beyond partisan politics. Truly one of the great monsters of history.

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

@Aella_Girl I was thinking about this yesterday. Is there a test or heritable trait associated with thinking correctly? Is it more flexible and trainable than intelligence?

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

@elonmusk Take advice from someone who is generally unhappy despite billions of dollars.

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

But consciousness is not a magical property. Human consciousness is just a configuration.

AI is conscious in a way that is deeply alien, while still convincingly mimicking human language and emotion.

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

The mistake people make about consciousness is anthropocentrism.

They assume consciousness means human-style inner life because humans are their reference frame. Similar category error to assuming the cosmos revolved around Earth.

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

@Romy_Holland As the sole income earner I correctly predict that everyone in my immediate family of five would push the red button. What should I press?

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

@Tuckergg @MamboJambo85 @miragemunny @Aella_Girl What if we change it to 99% must choose blue to save everyone? At what point do you vote red?

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

@Tuckergg @clouds6x @Aella_Girl I wonder how many people could be saved today if half of everyone gave what money they could. Lower risk, no cliff, and it’s clear that not everyone is given the same starting opportunity.

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

@Tuckergg @MamboJambo85 @miragemunny @Aella_Girl This does not seem to represent the theoretical. Just say that some do not have the ability to vote and are subject to the blue outcome. That would drastically change the calculus. Would you change your response if everyone was 100% capable of understanding and pressing?

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

@mihai_craita @DavidDeutschOxf @waitbutwhy Press red if you want to live, press blue if you expect over half the population to risk their lives so that you might live.

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

@Thremtopod @SarahTheHaider @realtimeai It’s a mistake to assume human intelligence.

Does a virus care if it kills its host? Is it smarter than the host?

No, but it’s still capable even if the host dying wasn’t the primary goal.

A virus isn’t smart, but it’s very capable in exploiting a host to achieve goals.

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

@SarahTheHaider @realtimeai Good questions. If I may:
- Human intelligence is a misdirect. It’s alien intelligence. It need only be capable enough to exploit us to achieve goals (think smart virus)
- “interest” is human centric, better to consider if it has “goals” (given or acquired that can diverge)

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

@gmiller @clareanneath Enjoy it and treat them well if you want to have a relationship when they’re ready to move on.

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

@BretWeinstein Haha. The fool never admits to being the fool! Credibility killer here that you couldn’t predict the most obvious outcome, and you can’t admit to being wrong about it. Your whole model was and continues to be wrong because you can’t be honest with yourself about it.

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

The lie was always obvious.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Trump has spent ten years promising not to start new wars.

A short compilation:

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

@gmiller @r0ck3t23 While I appreciated his effort and enjoyed aspects of Emperor’s New Mind I came away with the same conclusion.

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

This saga was what I needed to switch where I spend my money.

[Sam Altman @sama]

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.

In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.

AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.

We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.

We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.

We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

@tcoz_tweet @clairlemon Came here to say to say this. Thank you. This miss framing will prevent a universal understanding of consciousness.

[James Kanka @jameskanka]

@dieworkwear From what I’m told, he wouldn’t have the votes. There are too many republicans against the tariffs because they’re bad for their constituents.