Great post by Lawrence Chan on the Illusion of Thinking paper!

Long story short I recommend the new book by Nate and Eliezer. I feel like the main thing I ever get cancelled/ in trouble - is for is talking to people with ideas that other people don't like. And I feel a big problem in our culture is that everyone feels they must ignore

Debates over AI would be more productive if we could stop over-simplifying. AI is not all bad, and it’s not all good. Just because someone’s excited about the tech doesn’t make them complicit with the Oligarchy. And just because someone’s advocating for responsible guardrails

Lots of people in AI, and especially AI policy, seem to think that aligning superintelligence is the most important issue of our time, and that failure could easily lead to extinction -- like what happened in AI 2027. But they don’t mention this fact in public because it sounds

A lot more people are starting to understand that superintelligence is on the horizon and that it poses a serious risk of human extinction. This gives me hope that coordination is possible!

This is pretty good! 🐦‍⬛