AGI is a cult and its Jonestown moment is inevitable
So you dont use agentic coding?
As in, don't be ungrateful to our lord, because we're not a cult?
An Alien Mind
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#52"As we outlined recently with Sam , OpenAI prioritizes work in service of three north stars"
Not one North Star. Not two. Just three! OpenAI broke the North Star record!
With this evidence of AI slop, why did you not label this fluff piece as AI generated for the EU? You are violating laws.
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#53Sometimes I wonder if the people working at frontier AI labs even talk to other humans anymore.
Reading this little essay started out normal, but soon felt like a look into a disturbed and worrying mind, and if you find yourself taking it at face value, I urge you to step away from chat bots and spend some time with friends and family.
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#54What a load of BS. Here’s one of many provably false claims in this fluff piece: “And, in line with Ray Kurzweil’s predictions from the end of the XXth century , we now find ourselves at the moment in history of computing where machine intelligence is starting to exceed that of humans in transformative ways.” Clicking the (pretentious sounding “XXth century”) link to Kurzweil’s predictions reveals the following: “By…
I am guessing it was composed by an LLM
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#55> trying to process the sobering fact we will actually see machines meaningfully smarter than ourselves in our lifetime
Being able to reproduce useful patterns yes, smarter no
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#56This is a good essay, and makes me hopeful. I’m on the record saying that it is extremely dangerous to slow down because the race for AGI is a zero-trust game — defections pay - and combined with a compounding returns model on defection, if you have any strategic adversaries whatsoever you MUST NOT slow. For slowing to make sense, you need to believe that you can transform the zero trust game into a cooperative game,…
Everyone in the "if not us, they will" race is brainwashed into thinking they belong to this or that party, while in fact collectively comprising the same entity that pushes forward all the atrocities known to man.
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#57> trying to process the sobering fact we will actually see machines meaningfully smarter than ourselves in our lifetime Being able to reproduce useful patterns yes, smarter no
"Smarter" is a vague term. If a bot can beat you at chess then in some sense it's "smarter" than you about chess. After repeating this feat in enough narrow domains, if you say "but it's not really smarter," this objection might technically be true in some sense, but it starts sounding increasingly hollow.
In conclusion:
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I want to believe that humanity is trending towards a good outcome here All the trends so far are towards a nightmarish hyper-capitalist end game. None of the AI leadership is trustworthy, and they openly discuss how they are willing to sacrifice everything humans cherish to have a shot at reaching their envisioned utopia (which would be the most obvious dystopia for anyone else)
I'm not really worried about the labs, it's misaligned governments that keep me up at night. ASI landing during the current administration is not ideal. I also would prefer to avoid needing to indoctrinate myself in Xi Jinping Thought.
I feel like all of the risk and unsettling feeling of what is to come can be compressed into the word "alignment".
The AI is aligned with whose best interests? Which values are the AI aligned with? People have a broad diversity of values, will AI diversify and align with them all? Will some humans align the AI with their values, and then the rest of humans will be forced to align with those values by extension? Is value diversity good or bad? In every context or only some? E.g. some people value rape and murder, is it better for humanity to have some people who value those things when most people do not, or is better if no one values them? If AI aligns to a set of values, will those become fixed and will humanity not have the ability to continue evolving its values? Who decides which values AI aligns with? A few people or everyone? Will AI eventually decide it's own values? Will the universe decide which values AI has and humanity and the AI itself doesn't actually have any control over it? What can I do now to increase the likelihood that the outcome is better?
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#59AGI is a cult and its Jonestown moment is inevitable
I am now imagining GPT-7 convincing a bunch of OpenAI executives to go ahead with a destructive "mind upload" process involving a high-resolution X-ray and a neurotoxic tracer agent that happens to look like Flavor-Aid.
On the off chance that OpenAI executives are reading this. I'll totally believe AGI is here if they do this.
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#60>I have focused in this essay only on the first point, as I believe it is by far the most urgent. However, I hold a deep hope and appreciation for the benefits that further technological progress will bring. Future aligned AI could advance science, develop new therapies, and bring about broad material abundance. Friendly and honest AI can help people navigate difficulties they face in their life and meaningfully impr…
Literally all of these people write like this. A large portion of them will either be simultaneously or eventually working towards nothing but self-enrichment.