Recall that in Charles Stross' Accelerando, the Singularity results in the Solar System getting dismantled to produce compute for AIs doing zero-sum high frequency trading...

We now live in a world where AI designs biological viruses from scratch. Arc Institute’s Evo 2 - published in Nature this week - generated bacteriophage genomes that successfully killed target bacteria. 16 of 285 designs worked - and only killed the bacteria they were designed to

Basically, about half of AI researchers are optimists, while the other half are intentionally building something they think could easily lead to their own death, the death of their children and families and friends, and the death of their entire species.

tobi lutke Who knew early singularity could be this fun? :) I just confirmed that the improvements autoresearch found over the last 2 days of (~650) experiments on depth 12 model transfer well to depth 24 so nanochat is about to get a new leaderboard entry for “time to GPT-2” too. Works 🤷‍♂️

I’m annoyed ‘slow ai down’ and ‘technology is bad’ are getting mixed together. I want to slow down BECAUSE I want to be uploaded and travel the stars

Today, the SDNY prosecutors filed a letter to Judge Failla requesting a retrial date. They want to go again in October. The prosecutors want to retry me on 2 counts the jury couldn't unanimously decide on. A jury of 12 Americans heard 4 weeks of evidence and deadlocked: no

People in the comments are posting replications. I say yet again that any SF novel or movie in 2006 or even 2016 would have depicted this AI as unquestionedly taken-for-granted sapient. And abused.

Tom Farley Margaret Atwood once asked Americans a question that feels relevant now: “When did you get so scared?” For most of our history we tolerated a fair amount of disorder because it was the price of living in a society that valued freedom, autonomy, and privacy. Securities markets

Web UI agents aren’t one thing—they’re a set of design choices. I break down 5 reliability levers: packaging, observation, planning, action, privilege + why evals are still early. danielko.medium.com/dissecting-web… #AIAgents #AGI #AICoworkers

You're a manager, Harry

regulating frontier AI training is banning math. also, regulating uranium enticement is banning spinning things around really fast.

I’m going to keep harping on this. Meta’s push to remove encryption and lobby for age verification laws feel like two sides of a very ominous coin.

Fascinating thread wherein a cancer researcher basically says "sure, we could probably cure your cancer with an individualized mRNA vaccine, but like 100k sounds too expensive for saving you, and it would be unethical to save your life because the ethics committee won't like it"

"The purpose of our technology is to make all of you obsolete. Also, 10 to 25% chance it may kill the human race. Please deregulate in order to let us build this even faster, and don't let the government have any control over it." IS ONE HELL OF A PITCH

Wait you can just substitute anything in the "to" parameter lmao. translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=El…

I just don't understand how AI could kill everyone. I get how AI companies will build robotic factories that will make robots which will make more factories and data centers and power plants, and how all of that will expand to consume most of earth's resources to build even more

GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.

It's just like a toaster.

I co-founded Augur, the first decentralized prediction market, and was founding CSO of Gnosis, the second. Polymarket still runs on Gnosis contracts. I'm glad prediction markets finally broke through. But I'm not going to pretend that what's being scaled right now is what we