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Ben Laurie

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Systems research at Google.

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Perhaps I should put this a different way: AI Boosters: "we're making something so dangerous it could wipe out the human race" Also AI Boosters: "why would we want to do security research?"

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This is the kind of thing that gives randomness a bad name. Today I hit shuffle on a playlist of 1,613 tracks. Of those 8 are by James Brown. The first two tracks that played were James Brown. What are the odds? HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN? Phooey to your "randomness".

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The only good thing I can say about quantum computing is that it has stimulated and funded a lot of really interesting cryptography.

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I predict that zx is just the tip of the iceberg. Prepare for a flood of similar stuff getting discovered starting ... now. Batten down the hatches.

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The more I think about it, the more I suspect that the whole idea of "Safe AI" is incompatible with general intelligence.

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What happens if we let randomly initialized strings of code interact with each other in a closed system? In our latest work we show how surprisingly often self-replicators arise in a wide range of environments and computational substrates! 1/N arxiv.org/abs/2406.19108