Harmless AI was lucky to make an appearance on Barrett Avner's Contain, and we continued to fire our various shots at Yudkowsky, the e/acc crowd, and nearly everyone else out there who discusses AI with insufficient self-consciousness. Check it out! 🐝

Professors of machine learning are sadly the type to tweet this. He thinks language is about what is "useful" to communicate, as if we are all signals division officers in a military. I told my wife I love her 7 times this morning. These people know nothing about intelligence.

This is an odd, pathetic, stupid decision from Valve. One of the best use cases for AI in its current state is that it can automate making some of the art assets in a video game so a smaller team can make something ambitious. But arbitrary rage of Luddites sadly disallows this.

To identify as an "accelerationist" is an admission of powerlessness before the sweeping, conquering path of planetary technology. The fact that CEOs and VCs are now identifying like this is a sign that they no longer understand what they are bringing into this world.

Why do people pretend like they can predict when human-level AI will arrive, quibbling over their "timelines"? When has anyone in the past ever been able to predict when any technological development will happen? Has this ever worked?

Right now there is no school of thought that accepts that there is a danger of AI hostile to human values — but rather than asking the government to prevent this, fears that the government is the body most likely to create it in the first place.

A good sign for AI Harmony A bad sign for AI Alignment

Some people are very performative about telling you they're "not impressed" by GPT-4 because it is only about as smart and as accurate as the average eighth grader. And surely, given how there has been a lull in dramatic progress the past few months, it will stay that way.

Why is every AI critique like “AI sucks at everything but ALSO it’s too powerful and it will take over everything and we have to prevent that from happening”? If it sucks then it probably won’t take over. If it takes over then it probably doesn’t suck.

Thanks to everyone who came to THE ANTI SINGULARITY PICNIC last weekend

Why would anyone sign up to work for one of these e/acc founders memeing about going “founder mode”? These are men whose ego and masculinity is entirely tied up in them running a business. It’s certain that power tripping, irrational business decisions will result. Red flag.