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"tiling the prairies with factories" *feral hissing*

Release the hypno-drones!

Adorable that this is the limits of their imagination because it's well beyond the limits of their basic education they doomsay over. AGI at this scale would know the above isn't possible because the physics don't map to reality. A circus of ignorance that catches its own tent on fire.

“oh no the robot is gonna keep us as pets!!” = 1) hysterically not at all a thing within technical capability and 2) weirdly horny in a gross way?

Scaring yourself with scifi novels until you end up having sex Yudkowski!

I grew up on sci-fi, but have come to resent it because most people lack sufficient critical thinking & knowledge of physics & material sciences, therefore they fail to grasp that many of sci-fi’s beloved magical technologies aren’t inevitable or possible. I now call most sci-fi “Techno-Fantasy”.

My thought, too. Lol, yeah. As if.

JFC Scott Alexander?!

As I said elsewhere: I HATE IT SOOOOO MUCH!!!

“Reality” lmao

i'm smart too and can speak in much more efficient sentences, gimme gimme

Someone send this joker a copy of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

That explains the Andreesen Private School For Rich White Heirs Who Think Good And Are Smart And Leadership Material

I can see a scenario where AI does cause a whole bunch of deaths, hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands DOGE ALREADY IS DOING THAT! Climate change, ALREADY DOING THAT! Does AI have risks, no doubt. Probably economic and societal, shitstorm coming, not a robot apocalypse.

From a strictly logical standpoint, this is stupid. If a Superintelligent AI is inevitable, then all this accomplishes is delaying its creation. If it is not inevitable, than this extreme measure is unnecessary.

but of course

Oh God, one of the 'only thing that matters is leaving the only habitable planet and living in space boxes on dead rocks, because sci-fi says so, so let's wreck Earth' dimwits!

Just as long as we reach the stars someday, that's all ok then. /s

I keep being reminded of Gore Vidal’s novel *Kalki.*

I don't like to kink shame, but there's a line where a breeding fetish goes way too far, and I think this is *probably* a few hairs beyond it.

Just what the human race needs, Another genetic bottleneck!

The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb.

Fallout is a dystopia too! These fictions are meant to warn not inspire.

Yudkowsky a genius? Looks like he's head of a doomsday sex cult where his primary motivation is finding people to predate on & satisfy his obvious desire to lead some orgiastic revolt. And get his rocks polished.

evil-dumb is murder-suicide attaching love to hunger is like sewing your arm onto your leg - the story-sense fails Delight in love Disgust for harm A clear moral lens does moral math all day, taking emotional accountability for pragmatic (necessary?) harm to life loving money? is loving corpses

What if I told you that basically every American boy born since my invention considers it his highest calling to *be me,* and would do everything in his power to hasten the real life creation of the dystopian world required for my character to be relevant.

Yes, of course Jeffrey Epstein overlapped with the rationalist AI cultists. Least surprising thing ever. www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...

Ughhh It was bad enough when I learned I was apparently living in the same general area as Curtis Yarvin. Now these people too? Horrifying.

Treating a whole field as one psychology hides the internal disagreements. I would test institutions by incentives, claims, and actions, not infer motives from their existence. Is that too generous to the people running them?

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Wow, it's so much worse than I realized. This article was horrifying. Like, the 'druggie rape cult is hosting summer camps for kids and now we're giving them billions of taxpayer $' horrifying. What the actual fuck?

A literal Dr Strangelove bit

Also, you know, what's the point if humanity has to shed its humanity to reach the stars.

I wonder what he'd say if someone suggested, instead of global nuclear armageddon, simply bolsheviking all the tech CEOs and their supporters. Because I suspect he'd consider that a stretch too far, which would raise some questions of who he thinks would be in that reproductive population.

Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race.

This is masturbation; you guys see that, right?

reaching the stars is probably ALWAYS at the expense of human flourishing. As no, I don't think we can flourish there, not to the degree we can on earth Of course I don't mean non-human discovery missions for the scientific knowledge. That's fine. I mean the colonization of other planets stuff

reaching the stars is not a necessary, nevermind primary goal of humanity, except in television or video games.

Knowing how literally everything Yudowsky thinks about anything comes from science fiction stories he read, am I off-base in assuming this one comes from The Most Unhinged/Racist Thing Heinlein Ever Wrote

Teenaged-boy thinking.

And Gojira.

Most of them have zero skills necessary for survival.

A mix of the Dr Strangelove and General Buck Turgidson characters.

it all ends up at eugenics somehow

He's a rapist

"what a great film. my arm acts like dr strangelove's too" "the choking?" "wha-oh, no, not that..."

Like a major theme of that work is that Eliez...errr Harry wants to make sure that no one dies because his goal is to make everyone immortal.

does this guy think Civ4 is real life or

who gets to fuck this genius. Ladies don’t all speak up at once

Tells us he's a sex pest who fantasizes himself surviving as a breeder more than anything else.

hey maybe we could just turn off th-

fuckhead left high school before someone could explain to him what a genetic bottleneck is and why Radiation is the worst of all the bad choices for causing that bottleneck

ugh, if his vision comes to pass I hope im one of the ones that die in the inferno

my first thought too share.google/xdCiuOWWA6pR...

Yeah. Back in the good old days when we could laugh at psychopaths, rather than actually let them run the world

Gotta make a stop at baby harry potter before continuing on to baby Hitler

Pretty sure Silo was written as a cautionary tale...but hey, I haven't let Twitter fry my brain, so what do I know

Since we want smarter people surely this means we need to invest into greater access to prenatal/neonatal care, early education, and ensuring everyone has access to a quality diet to ensure proper development right ...right?

The dude gives off the stench, that every other fucking alleged deep motherfucker gives up. Only chumps and suckers fall for it, and that's the AI industry.

Okay, but it is a masterstroke of debate strategy to be a rambling idiot calling for a more intelligent population.

"So intelligent they have stopped hoping for clever ideas to work that won't actually work" That's his clever idea?

Fucking can we go back to calling them video cards? I'll never forgive Nvidia for insisting that "no!! It's a "Graphics Processing Unit!"

"Smart enough to build it on one CPU". This guy has no clue about either math or computer hardware.

Our tools can never be perfect because engineering, but the AI God is immune to the rules of engineering 🤷‍♂️

“oh no i have to stop the robot i built that Kills People” Skill Issue i would never build the robot that Kills People in the first place

Yudkowsky is definitely using English words in these two posts. Odd that his topic appears to be related to "intelligence".

Like, this level of high on your own supply normally results in methane toxicity.

Ahh, yes, a generations-long process to breed and grow smarter humans (using his DNA, no doubt 🤡) while also saying their "AI" will destroy the world within 10 years. 🤣

is he volunteering to babysit

Cyber-dispensationalists.

AGI implements quantum-entangled deepest learning brane processing on a corpus of Ikea catalogs and reverse engineers wardrobes as portals. A semi-autonomous drone swarm thus gains entry to Narnia and quickly captures Aslan and while Divinity As A Service initially serves man the next phase...

So the grifter Ayn Randian "consultants" mixed The Stand, Terminator, The Matrix, I, Robot & some Culture novels together for rich, insecure men who resent their moms.

rich people believe their own bullshit, news at 11.

I like that the AI scanned human brains for Roko's Basalisk revival AFTER killing 99% of people in just one day and then DIDN'T use those mind scans on the cloned corgi men it created to give it head pats. This perfectly explains why it can't tell me if a seahorse emoji exists.

These nerds fooled me in to a unhealthy card game addiction. This is not fun , it is math with pictures . I can't unspend the money, I am not a fan of the unethical card scalping trade .

This is not what the antis on here believe but it's ABSOLUTELY what the people they're talking to do. So make them prove it

but somehow, several "smart" and well-funded people spent years putting this subpar sci-fi together *while believing this to be a serious prediction about the real world*

“Page Not Found” 🤔

God, these guys are such massive fucking idiots.

A perfect symbol of the use of the word “innovation” as typified by the computer industry.

Fun thing that we have now passed through the Dracula sucking all our blood (anti)social media phase and are moving on to the Frankenstein’s monster will destroy us one

The first sentence is hilarious and proves that their ideas all come from video games. “Tiling the prairies and icecaps” You cannot “tile” anything because you need huge amounts of infrastructure in place to support the things you want to build. This is abundantly clear nowadays.