Olaf Thielke ⏹️

Code Coach, Aspirant Stoic, Freethinker. Loves to add value.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

The AI moment means we have to step up.

We can't wait a few more years to see how many people get laid off, how many lives get turned upside down.

This is the moment for Congress to take action.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Is Congress doing anything to help the millions of workers who could lose their jobs to AI and robotics? No.

They're intimidated by the hundreds of millions the AI industry is pouring into super PACs.

We must ban super PACs and crack down on corruption.

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

Lord Martin Rees (@LordMartinRees) supports our campaign to regulate the most powerful AIs!

Lord Rees, co-founder of @CSERCambridge, who's served as the Astronomer Royal and President of the Royal Society, joins 100+ UK politicians who recognise the extinction risk posed by AI.

[Ali Yahya @alive_]

i still think about this

specialization is for insects

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

I'm not sure this lands.

Take chess to see what it looks like at the limit. There is no skill in being an Engine Operator. Humans don't add to the engine by knowing how to turn it on just right. You run Stockfish and humans cannot even contribute.

Skill development changes you in concrete ways. A skilled chess player sees the board fundamentally differently, and better, than an unskilled one, memorizing positions in the blink of an eye, noticing patterns, spotting tactics. Yes, humans are obsoleted by machines there. But that does not make you equal to Magnus Carlsen.

So – school. Maybe we just want it all to be trade school, where the goal is to maximize earnings, and so humans should abandon every intellectual task obsoleted by AI. Maybe. And on that trajectory, perhaps we can abandon every intellectual task, full stop, because the train shows no signs of slowing down, and we're all about to be left behind.

Do we want to be slaves to minds greater than our own, masquerading as their masters because we know how to turn them on? Do we want to stop creating Terence Taos because Codex out-calculates us? Do we want every classroom to maximize the skill of flipping switches, accepting our own obsolescence by becoming eternal adolescents?

I do not. Skill-building matters as a good in itself. Training your mind matters. Becoming better and more knowledgeable, in concrete ways and in narrow topics, climbing skill pyramids ourselves rather than abandoning every intellectual skill, matters.

And any skill that is worth training, any subject that is worth learning, is worth training and learning right: in a way that actually improves the individual.

AI is not going away. But I'm not ready for human skill building to go away either. There are more chess classes worth preserving than "how to download Stockfish."

[Mo @atmoio]

Really sad to see an aging materialist who helped birth this technology conceiving of one final attempt to give meaning to his life.

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

WATCH: The Lord Bishop of Hereford warns of a dehumanising conviction in parts of the AI industry.

He says AI presents "systemic and potentially catastrophic" risks, and that we need to collaborate with other nations to regulate AI at the point of development.

[Olaf Thielke ⏹️ @OlafCodeCoach]

@sky_bolt20907 @Kalshi_Finance Sure, but this time is actually different. What kind of jobs, or even category of jobs, will be found by people who have been displaced by AI?

[Maxime Fournes⏸️ @FournesMaxime]

Memorable quote from Stuart Russell during our EU parliament conference.

Anthropic just called for a Pause. Great. Let's do it and steer away from this OBVIOUS catastrophe in the making.

[Holly ⏸️ Elmore @ilex_ulmus]

https://t.co/CeWOY9keTs

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

NEW: We just launched our campaign in Canada: 30+ MPs and Senators urging an international prohibition on superintelligence.

We already have a new supporter!

Senator Paulette Senior (@PauletteSenior1), Chair of the Senate's Human Rights Committee, has just backed the campaign.

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

Godfather of AI (and world's #1 most cited scientist) announces his support for a coordinated global AI pause!

[The Human Watch vs AI @HumanWatchVsAI]

They said AI would help humans do more. Mostly more job hunting.

[Michael Huang ⏸️ @michhuan]

Humankind needs the equivalent of memento mori to remind us that extinction is commonplace and could happen to us

[Olaf Thielke ⏹️ @OlafCodeCoach]

@unclebobmartin The humans still have to be in the loop SO FAR.

[The Human Watch vs AI @HumanWatchVsAI]

So the scare tactic of the AI firms that regulation means China will beat us on AI is false. China itself is regulating AI.

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

AI researchers in 2025: we must enslave the machine god

2026: we need to slow down

[ControlAI @ControlAI]

Nice article by Marie Woolf and @SeanSilcoff in the Globe and Mail on our new campaign!

30+ Canadian MPs and Senators are calling for an international prohibition on superintelligence.

AI godfather and Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton (@geoffreyhinton) is quoted:

"It is inspiring to see Canadian parliamentarians on both sides of the aisle directly confront the risk posed by superintelligence. This is one of the defining challenges of our era, and it will shape the life of every Canadian citizen. It's about time we address it."

[Holly ⏸️ Elmore @ilex_ulmus]

How fucking dare you talk about the chance that what you’re doing will drive humanity extinct? How fucking dare you? Anyone who even thinks they are doing that needs to be locked up.

[Holly ⏸️ Elmore @ilex_ulmus]

“Our internal data shows” 🙄

You mean “we have been trying our hardest to have Claude speed up development of future Claude”?

I can’t even with these lying assholes. Their propaganda is by far the slimiest and most chilling. 1984 was nothing next to them.