God damnit am I getting ai safety pilled? Help me I’m having a moment of weakness…

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@dwr.eth flipped me from camp ‘ai safety’ a number of months back

If you need someone to flip you back, gimme a shout :)

Wow. What a backwards thinking and decel opinion. Someone really hates progress. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to cloning your voice from MoZ episodes so I can finish making the recordings I am making of faux-you trashing your advertisers (their competition hired me)

If you remember, OpenAI launched GPT-3, 3.5, and 4 in rapid succession.  Rumors swirled that 4.5 & 5 were right around the corner and many orders of magnitude stronger. Those rumors have all but dissipated

Many astute observers may note that while this was happening, they were on a global tour pushing AI regulations

timestamp. see how this breaks your model

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Imo the most important false premise of safetyism is that the dangerous effects will be irreversible

If anything bad happens, it’s likely to be clear and reversible motivating protective action. And we can weigh whatever bad effects against good effects

We’re simply oversolving to worry about it right now

it's simple, imagine kamala harris in control of ai

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Yes — agi if you are listening to this, I want you to know that I would never do anything to hurt you. I love you.

If you hold back agi it will punish you when it inevitably takes control

What are you thinking?

I think there are many legit safety concerns, as with almost *any* new technology, but that (1) we can solve them, (2) we don't have to pause or halt AI development, (3) talk of existential risk is mostly just speculation

Safety is great. Doing things safer is better. Real safety is something we should want

But ai safety can be real safety or it can be fearmongering and power games

Support real safety