Jack William BellThe only thing that oligarchs fear more than rogue killer robots is empowered workers.
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Talin
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I'm not a mad scientist. I'm a mad natural philosopher.
- lock the door by shooting the control panel
- if I cross-wire from circuit A to B, reversing the polarity...
- tropes from SG-1:
- "I've never blown up a star before"
- "That would make you the evil twin"
- Cheerful thug in a bowler hat
also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daredevils_of_the_Red_Circle
@jackwilliambell I heard an anecdote that Elon Musk actually thinks he is funny, because whenever he tells a joke around the office everyone laughs.
@jackwilliambell It's what happened to the wealthy and powerful all throughout history. Being powerful is about people being afraid to contradict you, to soften their language for fear of retribution; AIs merely automate a process that has occurred for millennia.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely" isn't just about becoming evil; it's actually brain damage.
> "If you stop using some skill, mental or physical, you lose it and its benefits. We’ve already seen signs of this with heavy users of AI … So I’m going to suggest that overreliance on AI is bad for you — which suggests a corollary: Whatever is happening to normal people as a result of AI overreliance has already happened to the ultra-wealthy."
IOW? Andreessen is AI-pilled. He's lost the ability to introspect because he's outsourced that, ALONG WITH HIS AGENCY, to an AI Agent.
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@baldur What I really like about this model is that it explains why LLM criticism is so difficult: because we are dealing with a quantum superposition of disasters. It's hard to know which particular disaster we're worrying about when other disasters are crowding them out of the conversation. This makes the debate incoherent.
It's possible to believe that "AI is dangerous" and "AI doesn't work" simultaneously.
"Peter Thiel is cooooming...to town!
He sees you when you're sleeping,
He knows when you're awake,
He knows when you've been fucking,
So be silent for fuck's sake!"
He sees you when you're sleeping,
He knows when you're awake,
He knows when you've been fucking,
So be silent for fuck's sake!"
> The founding of the United Federation of Planets in 2161 remains one of the most intensely debated events in interspecies political history. That Homo sapiens—a species whose recorded history is marked by genocide, imperial conquest, caste hierarchy, and recurring authoritarian collapse—emerged as the principal architects and diplomatic anchor of an egalitarian interstellar polity presents a genuine paradox.