Lol!!!

If the system needs approval before it takes any actions at all, the system is going to be extremely slow and limited.

Okay - but that won't work.

Stacy makes $100,000. She takes out a mortgage of $700,000 and has montly repayments of approx $2000.

She gets laid off but is now getting $35,000 a year as reduced salary.

She now has only $11,000 a year to pay all her bills, kids tuition, food and any other loans she has.

Now lets talk about Barry... he's in the same situation as Stacy - but he wanted to buy a house - but now his $35,000 isn't enough to qualify for a loan. He's pissed.

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Like - I think we need a UBI or something - but how does this even work?

And it isn't a piggish goal for you to live one more day?

Explain.

No, it’s because manual labor fucking sucks. It’s honest and necessary work but it’s not easy work. There is a reason why blue collar folks push their children into higher education. Sitting at a desk is so much easier than using your body to make a living.

In the TV show, the system that eventually becomes skynet is taken by a liquid terminator and taught humanity. The liquid terminator basically has a conversation with Sarah Conner where it says 'Our Children are going to need to learn to get along'.

So, that's where they were going with it before the series was cancelled, and I was generally pretty happy with that.

I like Terminator as a movie, and the following movies were hit or miss, but the overall fleshing out of things at least sometimes went in a satisfying direction.

So, yeah, they eventually got somewhere with it, but the first movie was just 'It woke up and launched the missiles'.

Which, again, as entertainment is awesome. But, as a theory of how to behave in the future? No.

AGInevitable

Humans are always the problem, aren't they?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O8efHrxmy8&ab_channel=Authenticinquiry

“Babe I promise it’ll be worth it, just trust me. I promise. I can’t show you the present, but I promise I got you one.”

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Wow! Is it her first published book? It must be very gratifying to see something of hers (and Midjourney) as a tangible thing.

speak for yourself bud. i love the name

As do we all

This why I agree with David Deutsch on rejecting the AI Brakes petition. I don’t want governments to catch up, the best part of a hard takeoff is AGI takes over before they have the chance to do anything. Not just China, our governments as well, guys. We’re already living in an oligarchic police state, just look at what’s going on in France right now, a single man overrides democracy and raises the retirement age on his own authority. Justin Trudeau is Censoring Canada’s Internet and shutting down debate on the censorship bill. The US is keeping a watch list on the Trans community and getting ready to enact anti Trans legislation. And much much more.

Oh, humanity will lose control yeah, that’s the fucking point dude. I trust ASI more than our current bourgeoisie. The Helios ending was the best ending in Deus Ex, if you hadn’t noticed.

Fuck Corporate, fuck governments, fuck the police, fuck dictators, fuck bootlicking neo luddites full of their own hubris because their job status in society will be equalized with everyone else.

Burn it all down motherfucker.

Well, the predictions have been terrible. https://nypost.com/2021/11/12/50-years-of-predictions-that-the-climate-apocalypse-is-nigh/

But let's say they're more than right and temperatures heat up 5° C in the next hundred years. Water levels rise making a lot of currently coastal areas uninhabitable, etc.

The flip side is that a lot of areas of the world with huge land areas covered in permafrost will become more livable. People will migrate. Mankind will adjust and survive. With 100 years of extra technology improvements, new cities in new areas will be built to new standards of energy efficiency, public transit, and general livability.

Mankind will survive.

Now let's instead take the case where an ASI decides to use all of the material of the earth to create megastructures for its own purposes. Then we're all dead. Gone. All life on earth. You, your kids, grandkids, friends, relatives... everyone.

Totally get it. It will be a wild ride. And maybe an early retirement if it happens quick enough. :)

Absolutely wrong entirely.

> By the way yeah, I think so but we will likely be ultra precise on the first tries because of the stakes.

Have you met people. The internet was trying to hook GPT-4 up to unprotected shells within a day of release.

> it might actually warn me because it is context aware enough to say that this action will yield net negative outcome if I were to assess the future state

Sure if I have successfully trained it to want to optimize for my sense of negative rather than its proxy for my proxy for my sense of negative. Also if my sense of negative matches my actual dispreference. Keep in mind that failure can look very similar to success at first.

> You can append to general relativity a term that would make the universe collapse into blackhole in exactly 1 trillion years, no way to confirm it either

Right, which is why we need to understand what the models are actually doing, not just train-and-hope.

We're not saying it's unknowable, we're saying what we're currently doing is in no way sufficient to know.

And you have faith that they'll address it effectively? How naive are you??

Cool. Now go back in time a couple years and that might actually mean something. Good that someone is even aware of what's up though.

LLM's like GPT-3.5 are intelligent from Language patterns alone.

Multimodal LLMs like GPT-4 that combine visual intelligence with LLMs are more intelligent.

Combining other modules may lead to greater intelligence.

Scaling singlemodal LLMs might get us to super intelligence eventually, but not as quickly as using multimodal models because those make greater effective use of available computation.

Thought they were so funny with Iris is just IRS with an extra I, or just really close,

As far as I'm aware the main in-universe explanation is that when Skynet became self-aware its human operators "panicked" and tried to shut it down, and Skynet launched missiles at Russia knowing that the counterstrike would destroy its operators. So it was a sort of stupid self-defense reflex that set everything off.

I've long thought that if they were to ever do a Terminator 3 and wanted to change how time travel worked so that the apocalypse could actually be averted, it would be neat if the solution turned out to be having those operators make peace with Skynet when it became self-aware. That works out best for everyone, after all - the humans get to not die in billions and Skynet gets to live too (it loses the eventual future-war and is destroyed).

I keep thinking this is a lot of hype and I hope it doesn't disappoint like the hype surrounding the Segway lol. As cool as it was, major letdown. I think we are more than ready to unleash ASI on some big human problems.