“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!!”
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Tbh I’d be a little disappointed if OpenAI doesn’t have a near-future strategy/planning department.
You can’t have normal rationalists in there doing normal big tech/live player level corporate strategy. You need RTS game raised exponential thinking strategists like me in there.
Move over Samo, single-threaded cause & effect thinkers are out. I’ll rotate 8 different malicious external AI scenarios into 2048 different outcomes before I even have my morning coffee.
I’d bet Sam Altman has been lining up for this shot since his youth. He’s “burning” millions of dollars increasing OpenAIs power & hooking into humanity. Final stretch of technological progress before it’s out of everyone’s hands, and he’s just so perfectly positioned it’s wild.
And honestly, know that’s I’m think about it, I’ve got my eye on Samo too. “Immortal Society” “Great Founder Theory” “Live player”. What is he planning. There is no shot Samo does not have higher gigabrain plans in motion.
They’re up to something. I just can’t put my finger on it yet. They’re scheming. Probably already talking with ASI tbh. A man’s rizz simply does not go exponential without help from a god.
From here on, nothing goes down unless I’m involved. No seed rounds, no preprints, no acquisitions, no nothing. A new neo-banking calendar app hybrid backend is even being theorized, I want IN.
You trad VC idea guys got clouted while mine starved of engagement on the cap-sheet-streets.
It’s our turn.
If any of you, are tired of being force-fed mid tweets by VCs with hundreds of thousands of followers, coupled with a view:like ratio that would make a transhumanist pray to Jesus Christ himself…
Consider an AI that generates entities/personas that then all create new individual religions, and let them propogate their respective generated texts & interactions with humans.
Probably a bigger problem then people just worshiping AI directly, especially if you throw in a few “deviant” religions
It’s funny because I think you could plausibly create this today to some level of scale. And we would be mimetically naked as hell to it. A dash of ASI & it’s over for coordinating.
Are you guys ready for Sam Altman to start posting thirst traps after he builds ASI & strangles it with his bare hands to force it inside the box?
Bezos at his peak? Glorified rich librarian
Altman at his peak? Buddhist monk who peacefully succeeded control over the entire lightcone to a wide variety of cultures & species, created a god and forced it into submission in the same breath back when he was just a mere mortal.
I just feel like literally every creative person out there is completely missing the jump on how absolutely wicked insane the future we’re about to witness is. If you wanted to meme shit into reality, now is probably the best time in the entirety of humanity to start.