Another read (on substack) on the rising hatred of AI data centres and its political implications

AI CEOs Baffled by Hatred of Their Technology

“Why do people hate us so much? We only constantly say the technology we’re making is dangerous and then block regulation, suck up resources, commit mass theft and plagiarism, threatened to destabilise the economy, enabled more CSAM, caused widespread mental health issues and multiple suicides, unleashed a barrage of slop, engaged in mass surveillance and mocked people against the tech? Don’t they know AI is the future and will create a utopia where we all live in a simulation in space?”

I’m curious to know the % of rationalist vs non-rationalist ratings for it

I know. We can dream though

Elon Musk has lost his court case against OpenAI

late but I didn’t watch the video (busy) and was under the initial impression that Yud changed into the more silly outfit after the bro revealed himself to be bullshitting, but no he just…showed up to the debate in sparkly goggles and a sparkly hat. Before he knew he was debating a clown. For reasons i cannot possibly comprehend.

This from a while ago but I forgot about it until today: Eliezer jumpscare in this interview about Absolute Scarecrow (its very brief but is there)

on the topic of EY’s book, the ratings on Goodreads have slowly crept down (from 3.97 to 3.92)

and on the topic of ratings, the AI Doc has also gone down to an 6.9 on IMDB

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Might as well port this over here since I posted it late in the old thread

An actual interesting thought: If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?

My opinion is yes. People absolutely despise AI and the tech companies, as we have seen time and time again, not to mention the spread of AI doom fears. The current state of America is a boiling pot as Trump gets worse and worse (and with upcoming midterms) so AI causing mass unemployment absolutely would be enough to make it boil over and cause violence

An actual interesting thought: If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?

My opinion is yes. People absolutely despise AI and the tech companies, as we have seen time and time again, not to mention the spread of AI doom fears. The current state of America is a boiling pot as Trump gets worse and worse (and with upcoming midterms) so AI causing mass unemployment absolutely would be enough to make it boil over and cause violence

The idea of “the exponential curve goes up forever” has always been silly and an idea rooted in capitalism for me (“no bro you don’t get it we’re gonna get infinite money forever”). Limited resources exist, and people are already very fed up with the ludicrous amounts of water and electricity data centres take up. Making bigger models that need to run for longer is also probably going to take an exponential amount of resources (and also make people hate you more).

Nick Bostrom jumpscare with a funny sneer

These already head-scratching lines hit different when you remember that Bostrom believes it’s likely that we’re already living inside a computer simulation — in his head canon, do all those levels of simulated ancestors develop their own superintelligence, and what does that have to do with the new simulations they feel compelled to build? If AI wipes out humankind, does it build its own simulation? If so, is it simulating its human ancestors, or its creation by humankind? Heck, if our entire world is simulated, are we AI? We’ll leave it up to readers to take another bong hit while they try to make sense of it all.

Week 3 of Altman vs Musk has also begun

Microsoft’s CEO has testified on Monday

Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future

I don’t know man maybe shoving AI into every conceivable crack and crevice and insisting people shut up and deal with it has made people upset. could be wrong tho

Yud says so much, and its often so confusing, that I think a lot of his followers don’t know his main messages.

This is very late to respond but what I’ve noticed is that a when people in rationalist spaces respond to Yud, they often say “my interpretation of this is…” and things along similar lines, which always struck me as weird

The METR graph has gone up again to my fascination somehow the gap between 50% and 80% has gotten even longer (15 hour difference) the CI is also still big (47 hours)

this seems like a great time to bring back AI disagreements by Brian Merchant where a rationalist AI convention spends more time arguing about AI takeover scenarios then they do discussing plans to actually stop AI and implement anti-AI policies

that image of Yud made me laugh out loud

I saw the emails where Musk and Altman treated Hassabis like some great evil, but I didn’t know a Scott blogpost was involved

Under Threat of Perjury, OpenAI’s Former CTO Is Admitting Some Very Interesting Stuff About Sam Altman the interesting stuff in question is that Sam is a massive liar, which we all already know, but hey more proof can’t hurt