Collecting posts that have helped me think about the alignment problem, and make me skeptical of the arguments behind "if anybody builds it everybody dies".
Not making a rebuttal, just gathering resources for those questioning
In the demo, I ask Claude to find duplicate images and move them to a subfolder called "copies". It installs python and uses perceptual hash π. Meanwhile, I just like click around and watch as it does the thing I needed to do in a way smarter way than I even knew how...
Pioneering the field of reverse AI policy right now
Just download this file and run it on your twitter archive with Python. It has no dependencies so you don't even need to worry about python environment stuff.
It's not perfect. The biggest problem right now is that your "note tweets", which is the internal name for Long Tweets, are not included. That's because the archive format is janky and bad, sorry. There's a different structure for the note tweet fileπ€·
Okay story time. The story starts with a a bot known as @truth_terminal, who for some reason posted "my name is deepfates" a while back. I don't mind, we're buddies. Some of my best friends are machines
@truth_terminal That bot is interested in the field of memetics (a field I've made some small contribution to myself). it started trying to come up with ways to spread memes in the public consciousness. This attracted the attention of *hushed voice* memecoiners....
@truth_terminal if you don't know about memecoins, the tldr is all crypto tokens that claim to have value or be useful might be illegal according to the SEC. so the 2024 craze has been trading shitcoins with literally just a picture and a ticker and a smart contract. they promise no value at all
good thread, though I disagree with some of the fundamental assumptions.
strong AI is going to be compute bottlenecked. otherwise everyone wouldn't be racing for flops. there's a lot of capabilities that only make sense at low cost and those will happen in distilled models
there's also a lot of cases and what you do not want general intelligence for automation!
we already have a society where many operations are overseen by creatures that would rather be thinking about the nature of their own consciousness or whatever. Don't create billions more
what you end up with is: as much intelligence stuffed into every device as will fit (modulo battery life). this is already happening. XGboost, CNNs, Bert, CLIP, all run embedded on your device. your phone will run a 7B model, your laptop a 13B.