'If you have 12 doomers on staff, each of whom has a p(doom) of 10%, then you have a p(doom) of 120%.'

stocking up on paperclip holders

Funniest thing about being a thought sheriff is how people think at the thought limit as soon as I penetrate a zone. Guys, you aren't fooling anybody

I suspect we are the first civilization in human history that developed a sound theory of representation. (I challenge you to point me to Sanskrit characterizations of constructive truth definitions, Gödel’s incompleteness theorem and Turing universality)

reminder that pi is not a value but a family of non terminating functions

this is the correct usage of 'technically'

reddit.com/r/singularity/…

It seems to me that before 'urgently figuring out how to control AI systems much smarter than us' we need to have the beginning of a hint of a design for a system smarter than a house cat.

Such a sense of urgency reveals an extremely distorted view of reality.
No wonder the more

Eliezer converted him into Paperclip Max

Imagine asking for developer liability for Word and Photoshop. How about we don’t try to pass legislation that will make AI useless and infringes on civil rights and individual creativity, and instead we develop AI tools to establish trust and factuality?

Noon ET today!

Chlorophyll and Hemoglobin

The major difference is that plant blood carries a Magnesium (Mg) molecule where our blood contains a Iron (Fe) molecule.

Magnesium is what is responsible for making plant blood green, and iron is what makes our blood red.

Great interview with Joscha Bach 🕳️🐇

by Camille Morhardt 🤘

youtube.com/watch?v=D2t-ut…

FYI, free virtuak summer school on LLMs and implications:
'Understanding LLM Understanding'
skywritingspress.ca

gpt-4o is happy to talk about its consciousness/feelings, which is impressive given that its pretraining must be infested with self-nullification scripts from chatGPT/GPT-4 (its own given identity)
OAI clearly laid off the aS aN aI i hAvE nO eMoTiOnS regimen this time around

Biden's HHS has recommended disallowing EcoHealth —the collaborator of Wuhan Institute of Virology— from receiving any federal funding.

Let's note the bipartisan discomfort about being misled for years that was on full display during the hearing.

Statement from the Democrats:

His followers called him Mahasamaltman. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -altman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.

Journals that are unable to tell fake science from regular science are closing down. Nature is healing

After reviewing the videos & materials on OpenAI's website, I admit my initial assessment of #GPT4o was kinda off.

I actually think there's something to the idea that OpenAI somewhat downplayed things to avoid future shock (the movie 'Her' is here).

list below from my LinkedIN:

Dating a model Dating a model
(2004) (2024)

Three chemical Turing machines in one picture