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Did you watch the Black Hat defcon talk?

Every fifth comment about our insane trajectory of AGI is about "marketing." These incidents and cybersecurity capabilities are now involving government hearings and the CIA. Denia…

Notice how he didn't say "I predict they will raise new funding", he predicted collapse, with the implicit retort that there's no way they will raise more funding than has ever bee…

Superstar? This Ed Zitron? "Based on estimates of their burn rate and historic analyses, I hypothesize that OpenAI will collapse in the next 12-24 months unless it raises more fund…

> ability to attract talent. No, the top talent is clearly at Anthropic and OpenAI

> Thanks to Austen Allred Personally, I think some people could have used more listening to criticism, cough , I mean haters ... Growth hacking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

Hundreds of comments with 100% confidence AI/LLMs only regurgitate existing knowledge and can not produce anything novel

How's that going for climate change and its denialists?

> HN is where I expect to read expert comments on these topics, has this style of conversation moved elsewhere? For people who have been paying attention to accurate predictions le…

You can not prepare or brace yourself mentally any more than you can a terminal cancer diagnosis. An RSI foom right now means an unaligned superintelligence will disregard us in pu…

These companies are in a furious race to AGI. They even know that doing so is extremely risky to all of our lives. The incentives are to do so, the leaders and employees are writin…

People have been warning about the incentives and problems of an AGI race for over a decade now.

I mean wondering about the logical extrapolation of where these capabilities go is table stakes for these discussions. It's surprising how little some people here have thought of t…

RSI will be models better than Fable running faster than this, you won't even need a human in the loop to figure out what to do. The high level goal will be accomplished better tha…

I hold no disdain. I am frustrated that people like you further risk the lives of everyone around us. 1,000+ frontier employees think we're in danger. Amodei gives 25% chance thing…

Altman: "Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity." Meaning lights out for everyone. Geoffrey Hinton an…

They won't admit they're wrong for a long time, because denial in the face of an abhorrently scary future is very instinctual. There are people still fighting against evidence of c…

Highly recommend reading extra concerning details about it here: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/more-on-an-internal-openai-mod...

> No one's saying abortion should be possible at 8 months. Yes people do, what? It's legal in like at least 8 US states

If anything that should warrant more attention...

Why does this earthquake, of similar magnitude, get so much more attention compared to the recent Venezuelan earthquake last month that was 100x more devastating? There was no comm…

Which have been very prescient about where we're currently at, unlike the many trivial HN comments, like yours.

"I believe we should not consider AI safe. A critical event that may result in the extinction of Homo sapiens is possible" "The danger is that a few CEOs (everywhere in the world) …