Thread by @goth600

“There’s no problem. I was just hoping you could give me some insight into the near-future of the macroscopic geopolitical landscape, with a highlight on nation-state AI capabilities? My contention is that the concept of AI Safety will usher in a more cooperative global netwo-“

“Of course that's your contention. You’re a rizzed up techno-optimist consultant for western techbros. You just got finished reading some old Bostrom essays, 2003-era probably, you’re gonna be convinced that heightened cooperation is inevitable in the face of existential risk…

…until January when China starts getting trigger-finger itchy again with Taiwan. Then you’ll be writing another blog post about ‘American Dynamism’, probably host some more dinners with DC AI Safety-ist policy ghost-writers, maybe whisper in Thiels ear a bit?”

“As a matter of fact I won't, because I think that while scientific pursuits should be regulated by the rul-“   

“The ruler can only work correctly when they can function as an impartial arbitrator? Yeah, Palladium, article dated October 3rd ‘22?

“Yeah I read that one too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us—you have any thoughts of—of your own on this matter? Or is that your thing, you come into my techbro locality, you read some intellectual passage and pawn it off as your own idea just to impress schizos?”

“So then you’ll be convinced OpenAI knows better until February when GPT-4 comes around and everyone starts getting scared, China will probably publish more replicated western AI SOTAs with some flashy words like nanotech or rapidly recursive self improvement to scare US normies”

“Then you’ll be back in here on an e/acc Twitter space in Q3 of ‘23, talking about AI alignment and entropic modeling with Beff and Fridman, shit, that might even bring in a Yudkowsky cameo!!”