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laს გr🤗wn იeet (he/him) retweeted
One of the coolest things about /b, back in the day, is how there was just so. much. damn. lore. And you had to be there all the time to catch up.
LLMs have made making memes and remixing them TRIVIAL so in 3 days you get what you would before get in months. Here 2 different memes collide to create a new one, who them collides with a third one to create a new one, which makes no sense at all unless you're terminally online.
laს გr🤗wn იeet (he/him) retweeted
me: seattle has the world's longest floating bridge
fiancé: *quizzical look*
me: it additionally has both the 3rd and 5th longest floating bridges in the world
fiancé: ...what?
me: the problem is the lake to the west of the city is so deep that pylons for other bridge types could not be placed
fiancé: …?
me: esther perel posits that familiarity leads to the death of the erotic. it is in the gulf between two people, in the corners of their psyches unknown to one another, that eroticism may bloom.
fiancé: *squints at me*
me: i met someone from seattle today
laს გr🤗wn იeet (he/him) retweeted
Those regrettable tweets earlier were written by LabGrownNeet US *not* LabGrownNeet which is a totally separate entity
laს გr🤗wn იeet (he/him) retweeted
very interesting to think about
laს გr🤗wn იeet (he/him) retweeted
“Swastika Night”—a popular anti-Nazi novel from 1937, set after they conquer the world—is really eye-opening.
Despite trying to depict a maximally-horrible dystopia, it manages to seriously *underrate* how bad the actual Nazi regime would get.
laს გr🤗wn იeet (he/him) retweeted
A prostitute costs $2000 and does the same thing they did 300,000 years ago. Hiring one is a betrayal of industrial society on par with eating out
laს გr🤗wn იeet (he/him) retweeted
This is worse than blackface. By assuming that position, they make us mentally paint their faces. *We're* the villains! *We're* problematic for imagining Aella penetrate Nicholas with her fat black cock.
laს გr🤗wn იeet (he/him) retweeted
The @slatestarcodex & @DKokotajlo episode.
Scott and Daniel break down every month from now until the 2027 intelligence explosion.
Misaligned hive minds, Xi and Trump waking up, automated Ilyas accelerating AI progress.
I went in quite skeptical. But I learned a tremendous amount by bouncing different objections against them.
Links below. Enjoy!
Timestamps:
00:00:00 - AI 2027
00:07:45 - Forecasting 2025 and 2026
00:15:30 - Why LLMs aren't making discoveries
00:25:22 - Debating intelligence explosion
00:50:34 - Can superintelligence actually transform science?
01:17:43 - Cultural evolution vs superintelligence
01:24:54 - Mid-2027 branch point
01:33:19 - Race with China
01:45:36 - Nationalization vs private anarchy
02:04:11 - Misalignment
02:15:41 - UBI, AI advisors, & human future
02:23:49 - Factory farming for digital minds
02:27:41 - Daniel leaving OpenAI
02:36:04 - Scott's blogging advice
laს გr🤗wn იeet (he/him) retweeted
What's your job? How do you feel about Elon Musk?
40%Engineer, 😡 musk
27%Engineer, ❤️ musk
21%Unemployed, 😡 musk
12%Unemployed, ❤️ musk
256 votes • Final results laს გr🤗wn იeet (he/him) retweeted
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s SITUATIONAL AWARENESS predicts we are on course for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by 2027, followed by superintelligence shortly thereafter, posing transformative opportunities and risks.
This is an excellent and important read :
situational-awareness.ai/
@leopoldasch
