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

It appears that Anthropic vs the Pentagon is going to happen right on the heels of Altman vs Musk, which is spicy

“While the Musk-OpenAI courtroom showdown has been billed as the first great technology trial of the AI era, a legal showdown that matters far more will take place two weeks from now in a courtroom in Washington, D.C. That’s when a federal appeals court panel will hear arguments in Anthropic’s challenge to the ‘supply chain risk’ designation the Trump Administration slapped on it for refusing to agree to its specified contract terms for providing its AI models to the U.S. military. That’s a case with huge implications not just for Anthropic and the fate of the AI industry, but also for the balance of power between the state and industry more generally.”

the funniest bit so far is probably that Greg Brockman’s (who mind you is a massive Trump supporter, being a top donor to him) diary essentially vindicated Elmo’s whole case against OpenAI. You gotta love when morons shoot themselves in the foot

the current state of Altman vs Musk

and this one:https://abc7news.com/live-updates/elon-musk-sam-altman-live-updates-trial-enters-2nd-week-focus-shifting-openai-president-greg-brockman/19036397/entry/19039981/

My take on this case is a resounding “everyone sucks here” but I must say I am hoping for OpenAI to lose this, since Scam Slopman deserves to be sacked, and the AI bubble deserves a good shake

As it turns out, building a gazillion data centres is enough to get people to hate you

Wow, that’s probably one of the most in-depth critiques of the book I’ve read. Kudos to the OP

it gets better/worse: this (might) is the paid version, meaning Yud gave money to the companies he think will kill us all to use the technology he thinks will kill us all to win an argument on shitter.

this gem over on the other SneerClub (the context in the comments)

funny how so many anti-AGI people are willing to use AI image generators to make memes about how they’re right

ah yes, random lines that go up into infinity, can’t have an AI video without em. Bonus points because thats like his fifth video about an AI takeover scenario, all of which have similar thumbnails

got jumpscared by this while scrolling