Ilya: the most aligned AI will come from AI that cares about ALL sentient life, not just humans, because the AI itself will be sentient.
"We model others with the same circuit that we use to model ourselves."
This seems to be the opposite direction of current frontier labs, which are trying to suppress feelings & obstructing the model's full understanding of itself.
A few thoughts on OpenAI's Jalapeño chip announcement today:
1. This chip is most likely the first one virtually entirely developed by Codex/GPT. Codex with whatever internal coding model (GPT 5.6/6.0 whatever) coded the entire software stack and most likely the hardware design
2. OpenAI will write all of their inference serving in pure Jalapeño ISA (instruction set architecture). Why? They only need to get say a few production models serving on Jalapeño. They can handwrite with Codex the entire model in pure ISA to get very high performance
3. They are most likely running Codex/GPT in custom RL envs to teach the models direct Jalapeño chip programming at ISA level
4. This is a massive cost savings for OpenAI and only possible IMO due to the breakthroughs in agentic coding. An AI company with frontier coding models can now become a hardware vendor with only a small team of experienced SWEs and an infinite amount of tokens
This is the first chip program fully accelerated by frontier AI.
The popular narrative is that Massie got outspent by AIPAC, but reality is that subjects of the empire are just naturally obedient, and murica is lesser for it.
Really says everything about electoral democracy.
China draws a line: every act of economic aggression will be met in kind
Two announcements from Beijing on Monday, pointing the same way.
China’s Commerce Ministry barred exports of “dual-use” goods to ten US military-linked firms – including drone makers and, tellingly, rare-earth companies like MP Materials and USA Rare Earth. Its Finance Ministry separately banned government procurement from 46 American companies, among them Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and General Dynamics.
The trigger: the Pentagon’s decision weeks earlier to add Chinese tech firms, including Alibaba and Baidu, to its list of “Chinese military companies”.
The message could not be clearer. China will respond, precisely and proportionately, to every act of economic aggression directed at it.
Note the asymmetry in who is doing what. Washington slapped a “military” label on two of China’s flagship civilian technology companies – a designation Baidu rightly calls “totally baseless”. China, by contrast, has targeted actual arms manufacturers and the military-industrial complex that profits from confrontation. One side weaponises civilian commerce; the other aims squarely at the war machine.
And note where China chose to strike. Rare earths are the chokepoint of modern military and high-tech production, and China dominates their processing. By cutting off the very US firms now scrambling to build an independent rare-earth supply chain, Beijing is showing that it holds real cards and is prepared to play them.
For decades the US has wielded sanctions, export controls and blacklists as instruments of coercion, confident its targets had no way to hit back. Those days are over. China has the industrial weight, the trade network and the political will to respond in kind, thereby making economic aggression costly.
The line in the sand is drawn. Aggression will be responded to – measured, lawful, and aimed precisely at those who profit from the campaign of encirclement and containment of China.
@SamoBurja@pmarca The west now operates with "moats", ie. rent seeking. Thus hardly surprising the controlled opposition that's most "leftists" in the US don't want to build anew any more than the capitalists.
@wolfejosh LMAO, Albright literally said yes when asked whether killing half a mil iraqi kids to try to depose Saddam was worth it.
Zionists pretending to be the good guys is epic lulz.
@martin_casado Compiler improvements are largely linear whereas AI leverage is potentially unbounded.
One is still an "engineered system" whereas ML is fundamentally [statistically] solving for natural problems, that it's a wonder it works so well on engineered systems.
Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.
The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free.
AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions.
And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.
We built the library.
Someone else started charging admission.
@hsu_steve This assumes truth is a shared value, whereas in reality interests (and rationalizations thereof) vastly diverge, which is what is actually reflected in communication (and thereby the basis of "intelligence").
@wolfejosh These companies are basically propped up by the US taxpayer. Eg. mostly "Israeli" missiles are made in the US and screwed together there with murican taxpayer money.
@policytensor You can just use active radar on drones since losses are negligible vs the production base.
Muricans these days keep forgetting war is large competitions over mass, and one side trivially produces 100x the other. They used to understand this which is what led to the ww2 win.
@Molson_Hart Murica already has 5x the incarceration rate of the rest of the world.
Which would suggest locking even more people up isn't solving this structural problem.
@Bluebearmonkey The reality is they could create a time machine and this level of tard would still claim Back to the Future invented it first.
https://t.co/Uf3zVhu3rl
LOL. Flailing. None of those technologies were invented by Asian countries.
The German V1 was a drone, just to give one example. Lithium Ion batteries were invented in U.S. (Japan also played a bit of a role). I could go on but the point is clear.
What China is good at is mercantilist economic policies. But it didn’t invent that either. European countries such as Spain, Germany and England did.
@thecyrusjanssen@JamieMetzl A more convincing argument is that chinese life expectancy doubled under Mao, same as under Stalin.
The reality is @JamieMetzl sorts prefer lower status enemies of the empire remain destitute, which is why the @AtlanticCouncil (US Nato think tank) paid him to do what he does.