civilizational well-being

Austin TX
Joined October 2008
jordanthink retweeted
Tesla has released new FSD (Supervised) safety data. Miles per major collision: • Teslas Driven With FSD (Supervised): 6,006,200 • Teslas Driven Manually (Active Safety Features): 2,031,221 • Teslas Driven Manually (No Active Safety Features): 845,915 • U.S. Average: 660,164 Total major collisions: • Teslas with FSD (Supervised): 1,579 • Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 17,775 • Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 239 • U.S. average: 4,989,713 Total miles logged: • Teslas with FSD (Supervised): 9,483,790,215 • Teslas driven manually with Active Safety: 36,104,958,020 • Teslas driven manually without Active Safety: 202,173,600 • U.S. drivers overall: 3,294,031,000,000 Tesla vehicles with FSD (Supervised) engaged experienced ~9x fewer major collisions than those driving without it on. This is North America data across all road classes (highway and non-highway). The data reflects a rolling twelve-month aggregation of miles and collisions.
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Although it’s frustrating and destructive if we don’t evolve, it’s an incredible social-epistemic accomplishment that average internet trolls use the equivalent of “check your sources” or “yeah but how you’re interpreting the data is the problem” as a common rebuttal
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: "I don't even know a dramatic enough word to use… models can find bugs that are outside of the normal threat model of what we think a hacker can do… hardware-level, insane stuff… I no longer think we're gonna be able to just patch all the bugs."
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yoda enters the chat
We tried to warn the world and far too often, to be frank, we were yelled at for doing so. “Regulatory capture,” “marketing hype,” “doomer anxiety,” “fear-mongering about open source,” “why don’t you talk about the benefits?”
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jordanthink retweeted
Here we share a few selected examples of our findings. At the time of the exercise, the monitoring system only triggered when agents returned control to the user, so agents could indefinitely postpone being monitored by simply continuing to take actions.
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"every disorder of the soul is its own punishment" - augustine
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"by our efforts against him we do less damage to our enemy than is wrought in our own heart" - also augustine from confessions, same theme
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if you have a wordpress site, make sure to update your PHP
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very cool. the 7/12 same steps of the major scale... is that a little manic or is that meanginful?
Claude isn't a great musician (yet) But this kind of video would be unfathomable to make even 6 months ago with previous LLMs "Claudia Explains: Euclid"
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Atheism is a deepening of intimacy with God. I wish more churches would talk about this
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jordanthink retweeted
Freemium games that enable ad watches or ~unlimited spending should be Considered Harmful. The behavior here is still unusually vile, and sufficiently blatant that I ~knew from watching on subway rides that the supposedly random pieces aren't random. But this? My lord.
i used AI to reverse engineer the block blaster mobile app.
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jordanthink retweeted
Anyway, you guys DO realize that this Roadster is planning stage technology for low gravity moon and Mars vehicles right? Because that's what all the research into shoving these thrusters into a small vehicle is really for. Remember. Everything Elon does is about space.
Elon has the chance to do the coolest thing right now.
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jordanthink retweeted
“Why don't you just love everyone all the time?” John Mackey, co-founder of Whole Foods, added two words: no exceptions. And forgiveness does not mean passivity. Full conversation: uptrusting.com/post/NOVyRB?s…
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AI doom debates often bundle three questions imo: - How likely (& bad) is doom? - What should I do? - What should we do? Splitting them out might reveal obvious coalitions and actions people can take to make things better that are currently hard to see.
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love david chapman’s writing; i think he shows how there are many nuanced views in response to AI risk, including good reasons to take extreme actions as a civilization, without needing to agree with the most “doomy” arguments… This tweet belies his concrete suggestions which include (amongst other things): - Holding labs partially responsible for cyberattacks - Replace C/C++ with memory- and type-safe languages - Describe and publicly share concrete futures we would actually want
🧵 AI "alignment" is infeasible, incoherent, and would be inadequate if it were possible. Replacing this unworkable conceptual framework should be a high priority for AI safety. Nice short summary from @jon_stokes. xitter.cf/jon_stokes/status/2110…
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