LMFAOO THIS IS GOLD
huh, interesting
I think many, if not most, of these signatories are just generally opposed to AI usage rather than the basilisk of it all
I must admit that I signed this statement (before I discovered SneerClub) and I was definitely against AI usage as a whole (still am) but I also still think superintelligence shouldn't be built, because if we're letting Sam Altman and Elon Musk dictate the "values" encoded into it I do not want to live in that world
what the fuck?? really??
This is Scott "Richard Lynn was right actually" Alexander we're talking about here, the chinese not being able to catch up without resorting to spies is absolutely apart of his agenda
good point, but also that sentence makes me want to take a long walk outside
maybe Yud just hasn't met a partner "high IQ" enough
considering his confidence in an AI apocalypse I heavily doubt it
feels like a good enough place to dump my other observations of this book’s reviews
-It’s currently sitting at a 3.99 on Goodreads, with 4K+ ratings and 757 reviews
-higher on Amazon with a 4.5, though less reviews, only 313 (i couldve sworn it was 800 earlier but whatever)
-it received several high profile endorsements, all listed on the wikipedia page. only 7 of these endorsements work in the compsci field, and only one of them’s an AI expert (Yoshua Bengio)
the new hit anime coming real soon to a simulation near you
“Tellingly, although the authors acknowledge at the start of the book that LLMs seem “shallow,” they do not ever mention hallucinations, the most significant problem that LLMs face”
christ, it’s that bad?
I searched for “eugenics” on yud’s xcancel (i will never use twitter, fuck you elongated muskrat) because I was bored, got flashbanged by this gem. yud, genuinely what are you talking about
the key assumption here is that these “superbabies” will naturally hold the “correct” moral values that they will then program into a superintelligent AI system, which will then elevate humanity into a golden period where we get to live in a techno-utopia amongst the stars.
which is pretty weird and has some uncomfortable implications
smart people are still capable of being pieces of shit. Eliezer’s whole “we need to focus everything on augmenting human intelligence” thing pretty much glosses over this. It only takes one group of superbabies/augmented intelligence humans getting into some fascist shit for this to blow up in his face.
yeah, he’s the guy they accused of statutory rape and giving drugs to minors (as well as the guy who created the rationalists and all their associated ideas) in a recent post of his, he also implies it’s Ziz’s own fault she went crazy. quote “doing crazy things because the world is ending is a skill issue”