El Bombas🧟🧖🏾‍♂️

Master of the in between

[El Bombas🧟🧖🏾‍♂️ @MrVicDC]

Whatever “British values” you thought we shared, have been, and will always be up for sale.

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Exclusive with @AlexDooler @DNair5

UAE officials have warned the UK government that the severity of Man City’s punishment could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain, according to people familiar with the matter

They consider the Premier League’s actions to have an influence on the bilateral state relationship, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing undisclosed information

The extraordinary pressure comes after Andy Burnham faced criticism, including from within government, for saying Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners should not be disqualified specifically because of the investment they bring to Britain

https://t.co/O3Azr0TA4D

[Lisan al Gaib @scaling01]

yann is going to lecum when he sees this

[El Bombas🧟🧖🏾‍♂️ @MrVicDC]

Wow

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/Muxqp4beK9

[El Bombas🧟🧖🏾‍♂️ @MrVicDC]

@AATalksBall I agree, but can someone explain to me how this is Rashford’s problem? Shouldn’t the club just be developing/buying better players?

[Marina Mogilko @siliconvalleymm]

Today's podcast guest is @AndrewYNg , founder of https://t.co/ajYERozgO9 and Managing General Partner at Al Fund, joining to push back on Al doom narratives and break down which job fears are real.

In this short video, he makes a claim: some of the loudest AI fear-mongering is a deliberate push for regulations that lock out smaller, cheaper alternatives.

Watch the full episode on our main channel.

[Derya Unutmaz, MD @DeryaTR_]

I completely agree with this take related to the “AI will create viruses that will kill us all” BS. But let me add my few cents, because I am really really angry!

I worked with one of the deadliest viruses in history, HIV, for two decades. I was one of the early scientists to engineer it, and engineered versions of HIV are now helping cancer patients. I understand the immune system that defends us against viruses extremely deeply. I have worked in high security biohazard labs.

I don’t have a PhD in AI, but I have been involved with AI since the early 90s and have been all in on AI for years.

People claiming that you can just make a virus in your garage, use AI to engineer it, and somehow build a virus that will kill everyone don’t know what the hell they are talking about!

Of course bioweapons are extremely dangerous. In fact, viruses and bacteria have killed more humans throughout history than almost anything else. HIV alone killed tens of millions of people, yet today, if you have access to effective medicines and take them properly, HIV is generally no longer a death sentence.

COVID-19 killed millions. Why doesn’t it kill at anything close to the same scale anymore? Not because the virus disappeared. It is still here. We developed collective defenses against it through our immune systems, prior exposure, vaccines, treatments, and better medical care.

And this is exactly the point.

The best way to fight biological threats, whether natural or synthetic, is to use AI to develop vaccines, treatments, antibodies, antivirals, and eventually engineer our immune system to create much stronger defenses against them.

By the way, it is already possible to make synthetic viruses. You don’t need some hypothetical superintelligent AI model to do that. We have had sophisticated molecular biology and genetic engineering for decades.

So how many people have actually died from synthetic viruses compared with natural viruses killing millions every year?

And if someday there really is an AI capable of making some unbelievable “supervirus,” then why the hell wouldn’t that same AI make it even easier to develop defenses against it?

Or cure diseases, for that matter?

Where is this damn superintelligence that has cured a single major disease?!

These AI companies and AI doomers keep talking like, “OMG, AI is going to become so unbelievably powerful that it could kill all of humanity!”

Then why is nobody asking the obvious question?

If your AI is already becoming this godlike, unbelievably powerful intelligence, why hasn’t it cured anything?

I mean ANYTHING.
Where is the cure for cancer?
Where is the cure for Alzheimer’s?
Where is the cure for aging?

Forget those. Where is the vaccine that prevents the common cold?

You are telling me this intelligence will soon be smart enough to engineer some magical virus capable of wiping out 8 billion people, defeating every immune system, every vaccine, every antiviral, every laboratory, every government, and the entire global biomedical community…

…but somehow it still can’t cure one disease?

I call that greatest intellectual dishonesty ever!

At least WE actually know how to cure things and save millions of lives with our supposedly stupid human intelligence compared with this future “superintelligence.”

Humans eradicated smallpox, which killed hundreds of millions of people throughout history.

We turned HIV from a almost certain death sentence into a manageable disease.

We developed vaccines in record time against COVID. If we had the same AI back then, would have saved millions more!

We engineer immune cells to kill cancer.

We developed antibiotics, antivirals, monoclonal antibodies, gene therapies, organ transplantation, and thousands of medicines.

We aren't fast enough but we did all of that with our ordinary human intelligence.

So imagine what actual superintelligence could do for medicine!

And here is the part that really makes me angry.

If you actually have, or are close to having, an AI capable of curing diseases and saving millions of lives, and you are deliberately slowing it down or refusing to make those capabilities available, then we also need to talk about the human cost of THAT decision, which you fearmongering people are going to be responsible for!

More than 150,000 people die every single day around the world.

Every. Single. Day. More than 90% from Cancer, heart disease, infections, aging. How many die because of AI? ZERO!

Talk about the people dying TODAY.
Talk about curing cancer.
Talk about stopping the next pandemic before it starts.
Talk about developing universal vaccines.
Talk about engineering our immune system so viruses become almost irrelevant.
Talk about curing genetic diseases.
Talk about reversing aging.

Talk about saving millions and eventually billions of lives.

Instead, we constantly hear this “AI WILL KILL US ALL!” crap, delivered with absolute certainty and with this smug smile on your faces in front of cameras, as though imagining a science fiction extinction scenarios.

I am actually angry about this. Each one of you causing a delay in AI advance every single day will be personally responsible for those 100 thousands deaths that could have been prevented!

Because if you truly believe intelligence is about to become this powerful, then the greatest question humanity should be asking is NOT:

“How could this intelligence hurt us?”

It should also be:

“WHY THE HELL AREN’T WE USING IT TO SAVE EVERYONE WE CAN?”

And if superintelligence really is coming, then make sure one of the first things we do with it is make humanity biologically damn near impossible to kill.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

This total nonsense.

As I will explain in my Thursday newsletter, there is essentially zero chance of human extinction by 2030.

[Think I am wrong? Explain your concrete, plausible scenario.]

[Nathan Lambert @natolambert]

This being viewed ~100M times is really remarkable and imo net bad.

I take AI safety seriously and think we have a lot of challenges ahead, but am still waiting for evidence that supports anything close to a 10% chance of human extinction.

Without it, it is fearmongering.

[Ian Hogarth @soundboy]

1/ One of the strange things about the current AI boom: I believe that Dario, Ilya and other leaders of AGI focused companies have been explicit to the VCs funding them that they believe there is a possibility their technology could lead to human extinction.

[Annie Jacobsen @AnnieJacobsen]

“At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first…”

AI enabled Bio is an existential threat. I just spent 2 days in DC and at Ft. Detrick.

The threat is real. The system is blinking red.

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

OpenAI did not “solve Navier-Stokes”. This is either ignorant or dishonest or both.

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

Terence Tao made a very powerful point:

“In most cases in pure mathematics, the problems are posed not because we desperately want the solution to these problems in and of themselves, but because we have seen from past experience that human-directed efforts to solve these problems tend to spur further development of the field through the efforts to solve such problems, and then to digest any partial or complete solutions that emerge for further insights.

Prematurely solving the problem by purely AI-powered methods—particularly without full transparency into the solution process—can contaminate this process to the point where it actually becomes a net negative for the progress of mathematics as a whole.”

I’ve been following Terence Tao for like 20 years, and I have always been impressed by the clarity of his thinking.

This clarity stands out even more in this difficult moment, as AI labs turn mathematics into a battleground in their race for supremacy.

In this race, they risk damaging one of humanity’s highest intellectual endeavours.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Still more absolute 🔥 from Terence Tao:

“We have now seen that even the rumor of someone working on a problem can trigger a massive amount of AI-powered effort to flatten it before the original research project has time to reach its full potential. The incentives may now be pointing in the direction of no longer sharing any promising research directions with the broader community, which would reverse centuries of traditions of open science and do serious long-term damage to the future of the field”

[Immemorial @thinkingheights]

This is entirely by design. The goal isn't to credit prior work, rather, it's to manufacture 'evidence' that they didn't steal it. Classic undergrad plagiarism gymnastics.

[El Bombas🧟🧖🏾‍♂️ @MrVicDC]

SORRY WHAT?!

[Eric Hubbs @BarstoolHubbs]

The fact that this happened (INSANE) and Shelton found a way to stay composed to hold and win the set is bonkers. Crazy level

[El Bombas🧟🧖🏾‍♂️ @MrVicDC]

@1Francxs Wait what happened???

[Ahmad @TheAhmadOsman]

Just a reminder that your work isn’t your work if it goes through a cloud provider like OpenAI or Anthropic

Opensource and Self-hosted / Local AI are the only way to protect yourself and your intellectual property

[“paula” @paularambles]

whoever’s in charge of comms at anthropic

[NIK @ns123abc]

holy shit, its actually happening