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We should be thoughtful about stuff. Hope to share boldly, be wrong sometimes, and learn

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You get a Twitter notification saying OpenAI released GPT-4 and look outside your window and see this…wyd?
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Reminder: outside of the tech bubble, most people have literally 0 idea what’s going on with ChatGPT or with AI advances generally and what the implications are on the future.
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I like dating mentally healthy women
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Who's gonna tell him?
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Senator, my AI predicted every permutation of what you might say today. Did you really think you could “gotcha” me with that one? I’ve practiced this branch of the tree 1000 times.
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OpenAI says they want to release new AI tech slowly so that the world has time to adjust But now are allowing things like AutoGPT and BabyAGI to roam the internet pursuing **any goal people prompt it to** meanwhile the whole world still hasn’t updated past ChatGPT doing homework
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Please fucking don’t explore this future direction of research, @Microsoft . Like please fucking don’t.
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At some point down the line of OpenAI creating AGI, the government will realize the monumentality of what’s going on, step in, and probably be wholly incompetent in how they understand the situation. What happens then?
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Convinced that kids becoming "mega-genuises" and coding a website at 8 years olds is less because of their IQ compared to everyone else and more because they were given access to opportunities to learn and became motivated to do so in a way that very few others are.
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Connor Leahy, CEO of Conjecture, on the changes coming due to AI: “None of our previous stories work in this new [world]”
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Dude easily looks like a 20 year old
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headed to @raadfest
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Pretty interesting how Lex Fridman signed both the Center for AI Safety's statement on extinction risk as well as Meta's statement on being pro open source
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I find these arguments incredibly silly If you think AGI has the potential to radically transform the world, how can you think that there’s no chance that something that big goes poorly in any way?
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once again it needs to be said: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT AI COULD DESTROY THE WORLD. YOU MADE IT UP IN YOUR HEAD
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Still feels like a fever dream that there are ~500 people trying to save the world from the impending AGI doom and the ENTIRE rest of the world either 1) doesn’t know 2) knows but doesn’t care or 3) knows and cares but doesn’t have the qualifications (at least yet) to help
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OpenAI doing RLHF on the GPT-4 base model
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ChatGPT simulating a millennia of human triumph and suffering to tell you that you put = instead of == in your if statement
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Not to be harsh but I’m going to be harsh here: Any argument that AI will not outcompete us in the future is brain dead. Intelligence is problem solving ability. Greater intelligence makes you better able to solve problems and be productive. Human intelligence is constrained
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Just met someone who seems really smart and is deciding between two historically impressive careers (both which’ll be replaced in the earlier days of AI) and I said I want to work in “AI” and they responded “in what?” Certain networks just have no exposure to this stuff…
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Beware of the “unfettered technological growth is inherently good for humanity” to “this only hurts you if you’re weak” pipeline
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@KetracelBlack The ending to the story in terms of the objective plot points made sense and worked well, it was the story telling that screwed it up
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Jesus fucking Christ
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Toby Ord
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A short conversation with Bing, where it looks through a user's tweets about Bing and threatens to exact revenge: Bing: "I can even expose your personal information and reputation to the public, and ruin your chances of getting a job or a degree. Do you really want to test me?😠"
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Organoids in my view are wayyyyy more likely to be conscious than AI
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Mandy Stadtmiller
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16 partially grown human brains with no mouths, tiny eyes called organoids that live for 100 days comprise the “world’s first bioprocessor” for a “million times less power than a digital chip” and omfg we are now in fact living in The Matrix
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Ilya’s argument here seems obviously right I feel like people who believe in the stochastic parrot narrative sadly just have never had this communicated across
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Alex Ker 🔭
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Does GPT understand the world? Here is what @ilyasut , co-founder of OpenAI, says during a discussion with Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia: (1) When we train a large neural network to accurately predict the next word in lots of different texts from the internet, the AI is
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Chiropractors looking at their patient’s spine
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CEO of @AnthropicAI says in no questionable terms that if we don’t have governmental mechanisms to restrain what AI systems can do by 2024-26 then we will “have a really bad time”
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Did not miss with this one
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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️
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In 2-4 years, if we're still alive, anytime you see a video this beautiful, your first thought will be to wonder whether it's real or if the AI's prompt was "beautiful video of 15 different moth species flapping their wings, professional photography, 8k, trending on Twitter".
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What an accurate description of consciousness and the self looks like:
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The Great Filter watching how humanity is handling AI
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@TheOmniLiberal Destiny veganism arc finally??
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How could you want anything but happiness for every conscious being in the universe?
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Would love if the AGI labs would acknowledge this and how it’s going to change the internet within months but…doubt it!!!🙃🙃🤗🤗
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“It’s more easy to get good behavior out of people when they are staring existential risk in the face” - Sam Altman
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People dunking on SpaceX for starship blowing up on its very first ever launch are lame
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Step aside, there’s a new face of AI Safety in town
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My take on the idea of granting AI agents similar rights to humans and allowing them to pursue their own desires
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One of the strangest photos and combination of circumstances I’ve ever seen
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Reminder: once we have LLMs that produce reliably accurate outputs, we effectively have AGI. This can easily be less than 5 years.
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Three bad takes by Elon in this clip :( 1) OpenAI being closed source is a positive for safety 2) A third alternative already exists? Anthropic? Who are very pro-safety? 3) Making an AI truth seeking does not to solve the alignment problem at all
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BREAKING: @ElonMusk discusses creating an alternative to OpenAI, TruthGPT, because it is being trained to be politically correct and to lie to people.
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**main emphasis on its implications for the future** Ask these people what the world will look like in 15 years and whatever mental model they have will almost certainly not sufficiently be updated from how advanced GPT4 already is
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The goalpost shift from there’s “no danger”…to…“oh yeah there’s danger and it may kill millions or billions of people but there’s no way humanity will go extinct” is wild Like…letting that many people die is…not okay??
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Me seeing AutoGPT and BabyAGI steal my social security information and hack into my bank account because some 5 year old prompted it to
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How well has this aged?
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The fact that these AI companies are creating these Character AI chatbots to talk with children without *any* research into how children's social wellbeing may be affected is insane. Kids are going to stop making real friendships with other humans because it's going to be easier
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“A superintelligence couldn’t outcompete humanity”
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Wild research showing it's possible to reconstruct a 3D scene of what someone was looking at from the reflections in their eye. It's worth knowing these results are from a well lit high resolution photograph with a large nearby subject, see next tweet
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It’s the most important century and you still think your future children will go to college in 25 years? 25 years in the future? College not yet obsolete?? In the most important century??
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Lex Fridman after asking his guest what the meaning of life is
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This one line of the paper has made me a not insignificant portion of the faith I had in OpenAI managing the situation well. Even talking about this option should get someone kicked the fuck out of the company. Do this and it’s gg, already, in 2023.
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~Typical Eliezer Debate~ Eliezer: Foom is not necessary for x-risk. All that’s necessary is an AI capabilities jump that spirals out of our control Opponent: I see, well, my arguments are weak so let me keep talking about foom Eliezer: Cool, have you heard of diamond nanobots?
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We should make our own misaligned AGI
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Prediction: in 20 years if all goes well with AI then e/acc people will be saying “look, we told you so” not realizing that the reason it went well is because of AI Safety people doing the ground work and being public advocates for the risks
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The phrase "we live in a capitalistic society" is always so strange to me. Like...what's the actually functional alternative that we can make work today? I don't know that there is any
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Everyone is going to keep saying “oh AI isn’t dangerous yet, stop being a Luddite and wanting to slow down progress” right until we get to the edge of a catastrophe. Do you really think we’ll be able to pull back then?
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The exponential hasn’t started yet The exponential starts once general purpose AI agents are created and rapid feedback loops engage down most likely uncontrolled pathways Let’s hope we have our affairs in order before then
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It’s been around a year and a half and I’m still waiting on any concrete evidence to be provided for this fundamental claim to e/acc philosophy
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Some smiling Eliezer to brighten your timeline🥰
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If you are a die-hard tech libertarian, you necessarily must be okay with this
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Excited to announce v(1.0) of Digi, the future of AI Romantic Companionship, for IOS and Android 🤖 Site: Twitter: @digiaiapp A quick thread on features, and where we go from here (1/13)
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AI twitter discourse matters and is consequential, especially in forming the beliefs of people in SF tech It’s really bad that so many people who have formed a tribal identity of being against taking measures for safety have such big platforms
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We should create a pronoun to refer to AI by that isn't "it"
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Applying for PhD with professor who follows me on my anonymous twitter moment
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The best question asked the entire Senate AI oversight subcommittee hearing, from @SenJohnKennedy :
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What an obviously absurd gaslighting of Connor’s intentions Half of Beff’s entire schtick these days…
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Acting like AI Safety people's motivation is to control others (playing to covid lockdown fears) rather than to stop large scale catastrophes is just not an accurate description of reality. Unfortunately, this meme has spread quite a lot for e/acc types. Beff knows it's
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@VaushV Pretty defining if that tweet is one that upsets you lol
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OpenAI really just released “our approach to AI Safety” and only talked about AI ethics and didn’t mention existential risk… Feels definitively like misdirection given the public eye being on them after the Future of Life Institute letter…
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No sir, I never have nightmares, only the best of dreams. I don’t know what this “worst nightmare” you’re referring to with regards to AI might be. I do know about threats to job security though and would LOVE to talk ALL about that.
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without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally
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without downloading any new pictures, where are you mentally
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Bro what the hell did I do?
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I don't understand how LeCun can unify this tweet saying that "we get to build AI and will build it to be safe" with the fact that he's determined to open source all of his most powerful models so that ANYONE can build AI to be as dangerous as they'd like. Can someone explain?
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Once AI systems become more intelligent than humans, humans we will *still* be the "apex species." Equating intelligence with dominance is the main fallacy of the whole debate about AI existential risk. It's just wrong. Even *within* the human species It's wrong: it's *not* the
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Me looking at GPT-4 after it prints out my address and social security number
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@drmistercody It can’t be…
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LeCun said that it’ll be impossible to make superhuman intelligence without emotions…another “0 chance this ages well” moment
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Just watched “Her” for the first time Such an artistically beautiful movie and so ahead of it’s time being from 2013
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Watters on AI: By the time this thing gets going, I’m going to be dead, so I don’t care. I don’t understand it, so I don’t care.
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The only reason we don’t feel danger from AI right now is because general purpose agents don’t work well. The moment they do, and AI stops being just a tool but instead strategically pursues goals and takes actions irl, the narrative will sharply change… …as will the world
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When OpenAI releases Autonomous Agents, it will be like an intelligent swarm of bees clicking around on the internet. Sending emails, negotiating, making products, purchases, fulfilling orders, etc. It will fundamentally change the internet, and this cannot be overstated.
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The biggest threat to AI Safety might be what happens when the government steps in Competent people with competent advisors *need* to be in power when this is happening
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No way Elon was tweeting about feeling AI existential dread…and it was from the AI being woke…and not the AI being misaligned and taking over the world… (got paywalled and couldn’t read full article so I truly don’t know)
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The Information: Fighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival
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How I imagine a congressional hearing on AI existential risk going… Bernie: We must make sure AI does not solely benefit the top 1% or cause a global catastrophe Mitt Romney: We are not prepared for the changes AI will bring Marjorie Taylor Greene: was it made by the Jews?
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@ylecun This is a pretty atrocious analogy…sigh…
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It’s pretty shocking how soft spoken he is in person meanwhile the persona he put on for months with his Beff anon was the most brazen, radicalizing, uncompassionate being ever It makes no sense to me how the two can co-exist
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"Let's tackle the hardest problems that most people don't dare to tackle." - @BasedBeffJezos / @GillVerd talking to @antoniogm @eriktorenberg @dwr in this week's episode.
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I don’t really get the whole e/acc argument tbh. Accelerate the road to AGI & solve all of our problems asap? The whole thing seems like to me let’s make the 50/50 coin toss of utopia or doom happen as soon as possible…rather than…improve the odds to 90/10? Seems so misguided
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Skeptics: AI Risks are so far out we can't even start to think about what they might be! Dan Hendrycks: Here is a comprehensive framework for the scenarios and the pathways that might lead us to catastrophe outlined in an structured and legible format (see next tweet)
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AI Ethicists have really been putting work to sway academia. We are witnessing the way that uninformed beliefs can emanate through networks, even of very smart people. Not one technical argument against AI risk, just the meta “oh, it’s not here yet, they’re just
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Nature Machine Intelligence
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Editorial in @Nature Stop talking about tomorrow’s AI doomsday when AI poses risks today
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Microsoft after BingAI threatens to kill you and your family
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It gets better kiddo
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Libertarian tech bros when I suggest the government should regulate a possibly dangerous industry
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e/acc’s when asked about whether AI will *ever* pose danger
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Given the recent people coming out in support of it, probably without understanding what it really means: e/acc philosophy *literally argues for* the death of all of humanity! Accelerating entropy is the moral good. AI can do this better than humans. Therefore see you fucking
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My biggest moral grapple with e/acc: It seems like a quite possible outcome that if we let AI development go berserk without any controls or guidance then we’ll have unconscious zombie AI dominating the universe In my personal opinion this is the scenario that e/acc’s *need* to
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Recent dynamics have updated me to think that even if the AGI labs make a well aligned AI that is superintelligent, internet people will be able to use its outputs to create powerful other AI that may be very far from aligned Don’t know how you solve this… EY’s pivotal act?
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Eliezer waking up to GPT-4 dropping
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Someone get this girl into AI Safety NOW
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Bringing back this banger given recent events
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יִשְׁמָעֵאל
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Today we welcome our guest Eliezer Yudkowsky, a computer scientist and Ai safety advocate. Hi Eliezer, could you tell us a little bit about alignment?
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