Venture capitalist Bill Gurley says he is not afraid of AI doom when nobody can explain what COVID already did "COVID 19 caused 15 million deaths, disrupted every life on the planet, and cost our globe $45 trillion. It was particularly hard on children. You've read about learning loss" "My kids were in high school and college and missed three years of the most formative years of your life. I never want to live through this thing again in my life" "For all the other catastrophes, I told you what root cause is. 6 years later, we don't know" "So forgive me if I'm unafraid of what some AI guy's chatbot is going to do to humanity when you can't tell me what this thing already did" "My P second COVID is way higher than my p-doom. And if their models are so smart, tell me what happened here. Let's get them working on this problem."

Alex Karp is 100% correct about fentanyl here — we would be dropping bombs on whoever created and distributed it if the elites were dying en masse. This is not a recreational drug, like cannabis, alcohol or psychedelics — which we should regulate and decriminalize. Fentanyl makes heroin look benign! Fentanyl is a chemical weapon and should be treated as such. Given the number of deaths caused by it, you could make a reasonable argument to give the death penalty to distributors AND to even start war over it — as crazy as that seems. Consider this: less people died in 9/11 than from fentanyl — THIS MONTH!

This is Sam Altman at 25 years old, pitching Loopt to a person in a diner It’s strange to watch now because he runs one of the most influential companies in the world The app was a location-sharing app but nobody thinks about it when they think of Sam It got me wondering how many founders are probably in their Loopt era rn? The company they’re working on may not be the one they become known for It might just be the company that teaches them how to sell, hire, raise money, and keep going long enough to find "it" But at the time, it looks like a kid trying to explain a weird location app to a stranger over lunch

OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change "But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI." "So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar." "You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient." "There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors." "One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate." _________ Link and more key quotes from OpenAI's safety related conversations:

@AnEriksenWife @cyantist Because in the grand scheme of thing they are a drop in an ocean. They do one every time diesel prices spike. For every truck that gets parked there are literally tens of thousands more than willing to scoop up that work.