kauri markkanen

aspiring engineer. absolutist laissez-faire libertarian. interests: knowledge, wealth, stateless societies, creativity/AGI

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

dario really is nuts

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Signs you might be trying to get your frontier AI lab nationalized:

You compare it to nukes… threaten half of white-collar jobs… warn recursive self-improvement could end humanity… then race ahead anyway.

In other words, you want the government to save us from… you.

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

@beffjezos also humanizes the founders quite a bit

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

@tszzl monster habits are infinitely better than self-discipline

[Brett Hall @ToKTeacher]

Prohibiting ASI could well be the thing that ushers in catastrophe because it will mean prohibiting research into all kinds of areas of mathematics, physics, materials science and other fundamental areas:

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

@dela3499 interesting how your handwriting sucks yet the drawings are incredible

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

you are mistaking a failure of the state for the failure of the pedagogical minds.
if education was handed completely to (truly) free markets, we’d likely have solutions to these problems in 5-10 years max.

there exists no law of physics prohibiting an enjoyable time learning hard things

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

@Sam_kuyp look at @brilliantorg (app) for example.
I personally despised math and coding in high school. now, once the learning process has been made interesting and understandable enough, I can’t get enough of either.
problems are solvable.

[Brett Hall @ToKTeacher]

@ZbynekDrab @NPCollapse Just another entry for @PessimistsArc to keep note of for future years.

(Such voices are like those who wanted to ban pocket calculators…for fear they’d destroy every child’s ability to “do mathematics”.)

Disaster looms around every corner! Ban all the things!

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

the new “not x, but y”:
“proportion correct, but proportion correct is irrelevant”
give me a break

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

@heyclicky

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

there have been more dangerous times. there have been bleaker times, times of less hope and times of far more sorrow. there have been poorer times, and darker times. but there has never been a time in history more retarded than today.

[Dries Van Langenhove @DVanLangenhove]

These two paragraphs of my verdict are crucial for everyone to read and understand.

"Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.” 1⃣

"For Van Langenhove to have committed a crime, it is not necessary for him to have incited concrete acts of hate or violence. It suffices that others are incited to take on a general attitude of intolerance or disapproval regarding a group protected under the criteria of the Anti-Racism Law." 2⃣

This means you can go to jail for "inciting hatred" even if your statements were 100% factual (see 1⃣) and even if you did NOT incite concrete acts of hate (see 2⃣).

The benchmark of "inciting hatred" , a crime punishable by prison, is thus "saying something that has the potential of inciting someone to have a general attitude of disapproval regarding a protected group". This means literally any criticism of mass migration is now a punishable offence. If you cite a statistic, and someone could potentially think less of a protected group (like migrants) because of it, you can be jailed.

The craziest part is that there is no defence possible against this. I brought the scientific studies that I cited to court, but the judge didn't care 1⃣. I also proved that the hundreds of students present at the lecture included students of all different political affiliations, and everyone was able to voice their opinion or ask questions. The lecture went very calmly, so obviously nobody was incited to hatred. But this too did not matter 2⃣, because if the judge says he believes there is the possibility that someone COULD be incited to "a general attitude of disapproval", this is enough for the judge to send me to jail, even without any evidence.

I'm telling you this to warn you that by the time these hate speech laws have come into place, it's already too late. You will NEVER be able to beat these laws in court. You have to stop them before they are implemented. Let my fate be your warning.

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

@dela3499

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

@mert replace the last word with ‘State’ and suddenly the amount of truth here goes from 0 -> 1

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

llms should have laziness built-in like humans

[Daniel Lockyer @DanielLockyer]

Sometimes I wish coding AI agents would just tell me it can't do XYZ, and that I should rethink the requirements or goals I want it to achieve instead of going down some huge rabbit holes to achieve some broken solution, only for me to delete it all again

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

@EricJorgenson @elonmusk up top frankly the best lines in the whole book

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

@mert bloody brutal world out there

[Spooky @spookyh8r]

“Goethe, aged 24 at the time, finished Werther in five and a half weeks of intensive writing in January to March 1774.” What am I doing with my life?

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

precisely

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

People are realizing that AIs are nowhere near human intelligence and learning abilities.
Yet they have become very useful by compensating for their lack of common sense, lack of understanding of reality, and limited reasoning and planning abilities, by the accumulation of enormous amounts of declarative knowledge.

[kauri markkanen @kaurimark]

@andreasklinger tbd. currently nowhere 😄