"sort of a drunk Sisyphus situation [...] Orthogonality Thesis [..] superintelligence with a randomly generated utility function [...] Yudkowsky [...] If the übermenschen align the AI, who aligns the übermenschen?"
tldr AI doom is wrong
www.verysane.ai/p/counting-a...
"Luddism does not deserve to be rehabilitated. It was a medieval throwback, reactionary and primitive, a pre-Marxist labor convulsion closer in spirit to the Khmer Rouge’s fantasies of agrarian restoration than to the universalist solidarity of Eugene Debs."
open.substack.com/pub/verysane...
"I hope that we can, at some point, have some reasonable regulations on AI, as we do concerning banks, wiretaps, and dangerous chemicals. I am somewhat pessimistic about legislation we have seen in the past, and legislation we are seeing now."
www.verysane.ai/p/some-rough...
"Stochastic Parrots" is wrong
There's another one of these going out tomorrow morning and it might be a while after it publishes before it gets posted here so bear with me
i hadn't had coffee yet. typos happen. i cannot figure out how on earth i made this specific one
If LLM consciousness is interesting to fight enough it should be interesting enough to read seriously about, right?
bsky.app/profile/segy...
Did Anthropic ask for this? www.verysane.ai/p/did-anthro...
this is about the government using AI for surveillance
a somewhat rushed post about Anthropic telling the Secretary of War no, Anthropic's history with the government, etc.