Out of the groups supporting Wiener's SB-1047:

Open Philanthropy funded 10 "AI Existential Risk" organizations - a total of $53.6 million

Jaan Tallinn funded 11 organizations - a total of $10.6 million for the 8 organizations with publicly available data.

(That's without 2024) A reminder of Jaan Tallinn's agenda:

Eliezer Yudkowsky's institute published its "2024 Communication Strategy"

The main goal (as he argued in TIME magazine) is to 🔻shut down🔻 AI development.

So, let's take a look at their strategy
🧵 To achieve our "shut it all down" goal, we must convince policymakers to enact sweeping regulations.

#Shibagate by date
🧵 May 2021: Vitalik Buterin burns 80% of his SHIB holding and uses the remaining 20% for "long-term charitable causes."

Buterin's 46 Trillion SHIB tokens, worth around $755.8M (on May 17, 2021), move from his wallet to FLI's wallet.

Remember the signatories of the @FLIxrisk open letter, which called for a pause on advanced AI development?

According to a new paper, "Why They're Worried," their motivation to sign had nothing to do with X-risk.

Their concerns were NOT centered on "Human Extinction" at all.

1 Despite its limitations (small sample size, not peer-reviewed), the "Why They're Worried" paper is well-organized and includes valuable quotes about the signatories' actual concerns…



2datascienceincontext.com/why-theyre-wor…

@MelMitchell1 Based on the dataset for this survey:

Only 149 answered the "Extinction from AI" Q.
= 20% of the 738 respondents (3% of the 4,271 AI experts contacted)

Only 162 answered "Extinction from human failure to control AI" Q.
= 22% of the 738 respondents (3.7% of AI experts contacted) @MelMitchell1 AI Impacts FUNDING:
MIRI (Yudkowsky), Survival & Flourishing Fund, The Centre for Effective Altruism (Oxford), Effective Altruism Funds, Open Philanthropy, Fathom Radiant. Previously: The Future of Life Institute, the Future of Humanity Institute (Bostrom), FTX Future Fund (RIP).

How does the AI Dilemma copy the Social Dilemma?
Different tech - same scare tactics 🧵

The "Social Dilemma" argues that social media has godlike power over people.

The "AI Dilemma" argues that AI has godlike power over people. The "Social Dilemma" anthropomorphizes the evil algorithms.

The "AI Dilemma" anthropomorphizes the evil A.I.

Both are … monsters 👾

Transcript of Elon Musk's appearance in the #saveryanmac Twitter Space:

@elonmusk: Well, as I'm sure everyone who's been doxed would agree, showing real-time information about somebody's location is inappropriate. And I think everyone would not like that to be done to them.
/1 @elonmusk: And there's not going to be any distinction in the future between simple journalists and regular people.
Everyone is going to be treated the same—no special treatment.
You doxx, you get suspended. End of story.
/2

If you need something geeky to listen to over the Holidays, the #TechlashAudiobook will do the trick.

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1/ After a week of exposés about Facebook by the @WSJ, #FacebookFiles, one of which around Instagram being toxic for teen girls, Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) Head of Instagram, defended the company (Recode Media podcast, @pkafka) by saying: 2/ This #ResponseTemplate is used for any possible issue. After the Capitol attack on January 6, @mosseri told @reckless (@verge, Decoder podcast):