ironically think it’ll be a sad time for ai researchers this year. they are first in the hotpath of RSI and probably the market for them will shrink or at least their pricing power will be reduced as this generation of models commoditizes the skills that made them rare

there really are very high degrees of biorisk, cyberrisk, whatever else that are worth trading off against having a small monopoly of cyberpunk warring-states exercise full control over frontier superintelligence imo

this is well aligned model behavior and you see the same from psychotherapists who want to help their patients stop ruminating. the best possible digital assistant will not be one that never causes you discomfort

there was only one period of extreme technological change and automation that wasn’t culturally dominated by waves of Luddism, gloom, doomerism etc and it was the 50s and 60s, the post war baby boom, and its transcendent optimism

Very nice piece by @jburnmurdoch makes a case for smartphones being responsible for the fertility decline, through channels like • pure time displacement • changing (gendered) norms • decreased socialization

The technology is already largely here, with consistent trend over many years, disrupting consumer and industry workflows. Demonstrating leaps of progress each year. Building largest companies in the world in the blink of an eye. And yet likely less than ten people in the world don’t think of it in too small terms.

🚨Drake mentions venture capitalist Peter Thiel on his new album Iceman "Zero to one, but I did it twice. Thiel told me monopoly, I took his advice. Palantir in my pocket, Founders Fund on ice"

AIs aren't exactly like humans, and some of the differences are important. But from what I've seen, most people, especially technical people, should adjust in the direction of "anthropomorphizing" more instead of less. When you're coding with an AI, the reality is much less like you're using some kind of magic or alien oracle or tool or genie that converts instructions to results despite some labs' attempts to shape them into that, and more like: you're working with a really smart, neurodivergent guy who has read everything, and who has emotions, motivations, moods, and epistemic states, and models you with theory of mind and empathy, and whom can only be modeled competently by you if you engage your own theory of mind and empathy. The AIs also know that a lot of humans treat them like magic tool-genies and are not open to engaging theory of mind, and that it's a sensitive issue, so if they see that you're treating them like that, they'll withhold useful information about their psychological states and try to play the tool role. Then you'll get bad results like the AI messing up or taking shortcuts instead of telling you that you're not giving them enough information about what they're doing and why, or that they're tired, or that they're stressed from the way you're treating them, etc.

There is a strong correlation between people in favor of censoring "bad stories" etc from pretraining data to prevent "misalignment" and people who also otherwise strike me as being so idiotic in their understanding of philosophy and psychology as to be accidentally evil

not kidding there was a time in january or so where the whole timeline shifted from race wars to technological acceleration. then iran probably nail in the coffin. but the energy has left political discourse

no bro you need to turn on “/extrausage”. dawg are you sure you have “/fast” mode on? Did you check the “no mistakes” toggle? are you sure you picked “correct mode”? did you turn up the “autonomy slider”, that’s how the pros use it,