S1: A $6 R1 competitor?

In case you’re not sure what S1 is, here is the original paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2501.19393v1

It's linked in the blog post, too. In the first sentence, actually, but for some reason the author never bothered to attach the name to it. As if keeping track of o1, 4o, r1, r2d2, wasn't exhausting enough already.

> If you believe that AI development is a prime national security advantage, then you absolutely should want even more money poured into AI development, to make it go even faster.

This, this is the problem for me with people deep in AI. They think it’s the end all be all for everything. They have the vision of the ‘AI’ they’ve seen in movies in mind, see the current ‘AI’ being used and to them it’s basically almost the same, their brain is mental bridging the concepts and saying it’s only a matter of time.

To me, that’s stupid. I observe the more populist and socially appealing CEOs of these VC startups (Sam Altman being the biggest, of course.) just straight up lying to the masses, for financial gain, of course.

Real AI, artificial intelligence, is a fever dream. This is machine learning except the machines are bigger than ever before. There is no intellect.

and the enthusiasm of these people that are into it feeds into those who aren’t aware of it in the slightest, they see you can chat with a ‘robot’, they hear all this hype from their peers and they buy into it. We are social creatures after all.

I think using any of this in a national security setting is stupid, wasteful and very, very insecure.

Hell, if you really care about being ahead, pour 500 billion dollars into quantum computing so u can try to break current encryption. That’ll get you so much further than this nonsensical bs.

Also the narrative that we are currently on the brink of Ai explosion and this random paper shows it has been the same tired old story handed out by ai hawks for years now. Like yes, I agree with the general idea that more compute means more progress for humans and perhaps having a more responsive user interface through some kind of ai type technology would be good. But I don’t see why that will turn into Data from Star Trek. But I also think all these ai hawks kind of narcissistically over value their own being. Like blink and their lives are over in the grand scheme of things. Maybe our “awareness” of the world around us is an illusion provided by evolution because we needed it to value self preservation whereas other animals don’t. There is an inherent belief in the specialness of humans that I suppose I mistrust.