Yeah the jargon and meta rambling is so annoying. It's like their first priority is to show off their brains, and their second priority is to align AGI. Now they are almost finished showing of their brains, so watch out AGI.

Sometime they behave in a silly fashion. Greek philosopher's had excellent logic and deduced all kinds of wrong things. These guys seem similar at times, trying to deduce everything with philosophy and mega brains. .

IMO they are at their best when it's said in short form and it's grounded by empirical data.

There is also a lesswrong podcast or two that will read out some of the longer stuff.

Where did you take this GIF? It looks like a habitat from Culture by Iain Banks

I don't think we'll have any issues with technological advancement. The genies out of the bottle. Too many big players in the space now competing at an arms race. Look at how rapidly its advanced just this year alone. If anything I think its advancement will place us at a disadvantage. Rapid deployment of these A.I into the public space is already disrupting tons of major industries in such a short amount of time. With no real alternative solution in place to impede it or at the very least stagger its heavy impacts. And shelter those already in the wake of it.

That's why you tax on profits not on labour itself. If you remove all the loopholes and exceptions used to hide profit it would be enough. If deflation sets in we can always print money.

Leftist here as well, I'm more concerned about corporations pocketing all the profits and sheltering that money from the community in general.

It will be harder and harder for humans to compete with robotics & AI, so we want to ensure the bigwigs do not pocket all the revenues/profits for themselves.

I’d much prefer to see a property tax. This tax will hinder advancement. We want more robots and automation, not less. A property tax is inherently progressive because rich people live in expensive places, rich industry has expensive facilities and equipment. And property tax is a tax on wealth, which if we do it right means wealth will dwindle from the upper levels of society.

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Stupid idea. We will all be working forever not because we couldn't create a fully automated utopia but because an old idiot couldn't come with anything creative to solve UBI

If you want to slow down the progress of techs in our lives there is no better idea. Loon at Europe my friend (Im french btw). Don't fall for "easy" solutions, even those with desirable intentions. The world is more complex than that.

Invevitable, absolute latest 2060, soonest around 2035.

I believe OpenAI or others have said they've concluded that parameters are less important and data is more important. So the models need more data... a lot more. And text data alone won't be enough.

No red dwarf references here? “I don’t want any smeggin’ toast.”

Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of goalposts being moved.

Every time someone makes a supremely confident prediction like this, machine intelligence overtakes another domain previously sacrosanct to humans.

I’m just giving you a hard time because it’s kind of funny, because you definitely didn’t need to bring it up to make your point. You could could have just said “I wouldn’t bother bringing up my IQ score even if it was considered high, because I don’t think an IQ really defines you or means your special if it’s high”

I think UBI would be a better solution but that’s even less politically pragmatic.

Imaginable ASI within 5 years, Unimaginable ASI within a decade.

And is operating at the speed of light

The article is very clearly written, establish the foundations well. Highly recommended.

After GTA San Andreas, I didn't like any other GTA

Very unwise idea. Increasing corporation tax is agreeable and inevitable but tax on AI and robots will slow down technological advancement. It will drop quality of civilization and people's life. I too a left wing but I totally disagree that idea.

Damn man. So fascinating the way we humans act. Like honestly this shit just baffles me that we happen to live in the few decades in the billions of years of the universe where progress in technology should increase to a level that could cause more change than all of human history combined. Really makes me start thinking about the simulation theory, what are your thoughts

You know how when you describe scary things to a child, you try to use simpler words and concepts and try not to spook them so they don't panic and just mentally shut down?

That's how I introduce AI concepts like ANI and AGI before talking about self-improving ASI and AI alignment and convergent intermediate goals like resource acquisition, goal preservation etc.

I want them to learn the facts first before the panic sets in. No one is going to listen to you if you start the conversation by saying they might die from AI.

>That is about to change

No it isn't. What we currently call "AI" is incredibly limited. There will be no exponential growth. We have produced novel results with digital neutral networks, but there is a 0% chance that this technology will ursup human supremacy in our lifetimes.

The threat of AGI/ASI exists as a fantasy in the minds of the technologically illiterate who cannot understand the mediocrity of what they are observing.

AGI would be like us but with extra ability. ASi will be able to do much more. AGI could mean lost jobs and high suicide rates. ASI could mean mass extinctions.

You're just a bundle of joy aren't you lol