Von (Consolation Seeker)

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[Von (Consolation Seeker) @simpforasi]

I really don’t like Trump. Objectively, I have far more in common with the left. I don’t know if this dichotomy exists in the US too, but in France we have this concept of a universalist left and an intersectional/identitarian left. The latter is one of the things I dislike about left-wing parties, whether it’s the Democrats in the US or Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party here. The guilt-tripping, the decolonial movement, the idea that more or less the only thing wrong with the world is attributable to the white cis man, all of that exhausts me.

And then there’s also the push for degrowth, a version of ecology that treats the planet, which in a sane mind should only have value insofar as it is the environment, the mere environment, of sentient beings, as a being in its own right, sacred, something we must respect and care for. I don’t want to love nature. I want to master it, to control how it functions, how it looks, and how it evolves, in order to provide optimal conditions for the sentient beings who inhabit it.

You have this tendency to defend the Democratic Party, whereas what I observe is that it hates AI. Just look at Bernie Sanders, who recently said, in substance: “What would we do if tomorrow we had no more jobs because of AI? We absolutely must not let that happen!” And then he proposes nationalizing 50% of the major labs, which fundamentally misunderstands what kind of technology AI is. Because the value created by AI will exist far more outside the labs, created by those who pay to use AI, than inside the labs themselves.

If AI delivers on its promise, OpenAI’s stock-market valuation will not increase as much as the standard of living people experience in their daily lives. I’m not saying the left is bad. But I don’t see why one should defend this particular left-wing party, even if it is more or less the only one you have. What we need instead is a party that is openly pro-AI, pro-UBI, or pro-UHI as Musk says, although I dislike him for plenty of reasons, and in reality Kurzweil had already predicted this a long time ago, and that does not fuel a war of identities.

[Von (Consolation Seeker) @simpforasi]

It’s actually a very parsimonious position. Especially if we accept that the combination of regular scaling, RL, and algorithmic improvements could lead us to human-level intelligence or recursive self-improvement.

But that interpretation seems hard to reconcile with launching AMI Labs and calling it “Real Intelligence,” which suggests that LLMs are somehow “fake” intelligence.

It seems more likely to me that you’re deep in cognitive dissonance.

[Von (Consolation Seeker) @simpforasi]

@Tom62589172 @mathandcobb lol

[Von (Consolation Seeker) @simpforasi]

@NicoWolf16 @mathandcobb "But if you are going to produce quick AI answers that you yourself do not understand, and expect *us* to verify them for you, then that's not how any of this works or should work." then how do you interpret that ?

[Von (Consolation Seeker) @simpforasi]

For now, qualified people are still needed to extract technoscientific progress from the use of AI. He clearly says that we should not count on “them” (the high priests, of which he clearly feels he is a part) to do that work.

Why not them? Because they believe that we do not have a right to technoscientific progress if we have not personally made the effort to succeed at university.

What I think is that this obsession with effort, struggle, and hard-earned status is fundamentally morally bad.

But it’s fine, because he is wrong to think that we need the high priests in order to benefit from AI. There are many qualified people, far less selfish than the high priests, who are currently working to automate science and technological progress.

P.S. I think that one day we will do science at the frontier again, but by then we will all be superhumanly intelligent, augmented by technology created by AGI/ASI, and far beyond any necessity for experiencing the qualia of effort, which only a few nostalgic people will choose to experience.

[Von (Consolation Seeker) @simpforasi]

@soumitrashukla9 I have a theory that RL-bootstrapped compaction could lead to a capability jump large enough to hit the AI research intern milestone and be branded as GPT-6 in the last days of September.

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@ExistentialEnso for me, calico is california life company

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@ChrissGPT @l_mejiaC I meant the post not the comment

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@ChrissGPT @l_mejiaC I have a theory https://t.co/cqHBVtAlh3

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@theo Well, he can’t anymore

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@apples_jimmy @segyges I’m scared Trump will cancel lev for non us people and let m’y parents die

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@tszzl @LinusMixson Roon do you think the rest of humanity bill be able to benefit from AGI with this recent developments ?

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@8teAPi I’l deeply scared we’re on a dystopia timeline because of fucking trump. I thought he would be way better than kamala for AI but maybe not

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@axlegrurt @Dr_Singularity If you’re not AGI pilles go fuck yourself you have nothing to do here

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@tszzl This is unfathomably evil

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@DadaJudith @jeffcafe_ I don’t talk about the length of his penis. He think LLMs are just cool toys, he is far from sharing the silicon valley culture and it is a big problem

[Von (Consolation Seeker) @simpforasi]

@ExistentialEnso Ensure that AGI benefits only the US. Can’t express how much I find this deeply evil as a european