Birthrate collapse million different factors overdetermined hem haw even
No, dammit! It’s the sharp left turn. Our drives no longer point us at The Thing because we can hack our environment enough to have all our drives satisfied more directly than by meeting the original goal spec.
Drives include “self-determination” and “not feeling anxiety over amount of resources possessed.” Ie. exactly the things that screw us when it’s an AGI
No, dammit! It’s the sharp left turn. Our drives no longer point us at The Thing because we can hack our environment enough to have all our drives satisfied more directly than by meeting the original goal spec.
Drives include “self-determination” and “not feeling anxiety over amount of resources possessed.” Ie. exactly the things that screw us when it’s an AGI
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(I mean the self-determination part per se doesn’t screw us. But we are kinda stop button-shaped or at least friction-shaped so it implies getting rid of us if it has no fondness for us)
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Adam Stiber retweeted
President Trump reveals the DOJ warned the head of a major AI company "get ready to go to jail, please give your wife a kiss goodnight...do you like the color orange?"
Asked why he isn’t worried that AI builders say there’s a 10% chance it kills humanity:
TRUMP: “The DOJ. We omebody was reported to us to be doing something bad with AI. We called them very strongly and said, get ready to go to jail. Please give your wife a kiss goodnight.”
Interviewer: “Who was this person?”
TRUMP: “I can’t tell you.”
Interviewer: “Or this company?”
TRUMP: “I can’t tell you. But we said, do you like the color orange? Because get rid. It said, go home right now. See your wife and children. Give them a kiss. Good night. And that’s the story.”
Interviewer: “If the Democrats wanted...”
TRUMP: “Because tomorrow morning you’re going to jail.”
Interviewer: “If they wanted to make a deal to put that to...”
TRUMP: “Let me tell you, this person totally changed everything. Totally. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.”
Interviewer: “Was it a leader of a major AI company?”
TRUMP: “One of the big ones, yeah.”
Interviewer: “Okay.”
TRUMP: “One of the big ones.”
Asked why he isn’t worried that AI builders say there’s a 10% chance it kills humanity:
TRUMP: “The DOJ. We omebody was reported to us to be doing something bad with AI. We called them very strongly and said, get ready to go to jail. Please give your wife a kiss goodnight.”
Interviewer: “Who was this person?”
TRUMP: “I can’t tell you.”
Interviewer: “Or this company?”
TRUMP: “I can’t tell you. But we said, do you like the color orange? Because get rid. It said, go home right now. See your wife and children. Give them a kiss. Good night. And that’s the story.”
Interviewer: “If the Democrats wanted...”
TRUMP: “Because tomorrow morning you’re going to jail.”
Interviewer: “If they wanted to make a deal to put that to...”
TRUMP: “Let me tell you, this person totally changed everything. Totally. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.”
Interviewer: “Was it a leader of a major AI company?”
TRUMP: “One of the big ones, yeah.”
Interviewer: “Okay.”
TRUMP: “One of the big ones.”
President Trump on Jensen Huang: “I haven’t heard he’s done anything wrong. He dealt with somebody, but so does everybody else”
Asked whether Jensen should stay on as CEO and if he's going with Trump to Asia next week:
Reporter: “Should he stay on as CEO of NVIDIA?”
Trump: “I e.”
Reporter: “Mr. President, is he going to go with you on your trip to Asia next week?”
Trump: “I don’t know, but I’d certainly take him. I mean, we’d have to find. I haven’t heard he’s done anything wrong. He dealt with somebody, but, you know, so does everybody else.”
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Trump says AI risks can be managed, signals openness to guardrails reut.rs/4iMOeXn
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So if they distill everything you build right when you build it and also have spies boinking the people building it, the race become a doubles race right? Almost as if that whole framing of winning the race was a load of bunkum by the labs who fundamentally just want to build it
And now official confirmation from Jensen himself to the Nvidia board (!!!)
nytimes.com/2026/11/08/tec…
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Almost as if they have a common interest in not getting boiled along with the oceans
The Freeze AI movement is growing. By my count, at least nine newly elected Members of Congress have said they would consider pausing AI development, banning superintelligence, and/or implementing a data center moratorium. freeze-tracker.netlify.app
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Adam Stiber retweeted
We can pause AI internationally for at least a decade without trusting China or tanking the economy.
hardwired-pause.ai
hardwired-pause.ai
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When @sama says “We can just do things” he means doing terrible things to your family:
-stealing your data
-building data centers to blight your community and create mass surveillance
-not just taking your job, but literally ending your industry
Oh, and these machines will also likely straight up just kill us all, soon.
All of it, without our consent.
We will not allow it. We cannot.
-stealing your data
-building data centers to blight your community and create mass surveillance
-not just taking your job, but literally ending your industry
Oh, and these machines will also likely straight up just kill us all, soon.
All of it, without our consent.
We will not allow it. We cannot.
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Adam Stiber retweeted
Ban RSI.
Every AI company is trying to fully automate AI research; to allow the AIs to build the next AI.
This is called Recursive Self Improvement (RSI).
OpenAI says they are on track to do so by March 2028.
Anthropic employees say they are on track to do so by 2027.
The METR report below suggests they are likely right.
This is a bad idea given current technology. Any mistake or misalignment in current AIs could be multiplied in each generation.
We don't get another election before AI companies reach this threshold.
Congress should ban RSI, this year if possible.
This is a remarkably consensus opinion, supported in various versions by:
-Bernie Sanders
-Steve Bannon
-Ralph Nader
-Glenn Beck
-Republican and Democratic attorneys general
-Whistleblower Daniel Kokotajlo
-Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio
-Humans First
-Open Markets Institute
-Ezra Klein
-Arvind Narayanan (a Princeton computer scientist known for arguing that “AI is a normal technology”)
The exact mechanism can be debated. The ban doesn't have to be permanent either (see below for both). This is not the only thing we have to do in regards to AI, far from it! But it is urgent.
Congress must ban RSI.
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As AI improves, uplift will get even higher. If it overcomes diminishing returns and bottlenecks, a naive extrapolation implies we would reach ASI within a year. The authors say they found no clear bottlenecks or sharp diminishing returns, though they are very uncertain.
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Ok so octopi are asocial and do cannibalism. How well does it go for any of us if you foom an octopus
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Demons needed (where demons are little dudes who stand for patterns in the world)
lesswrong.com/posts/fjGgrzAk…
lesswrong.com/posts/fjGgrzAk…
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