Sam Altman’s sister has made allegations of sexual assault. Here are some key facts:
Just wanted to share these facts so that people can make up their own minds about the accuracy of the allegations. I've been seeing a lot of the "did you hear his sister accused him of sexual assault?" things going around, and nobody is mentioning the context.
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The cope around AI is unreal.
I don't know about you, but I don't really want to bet on corporations or the American government setting up a truly universal UBI. We could already have a UBI and we don't. Now, the only reason I don't worry about this that much is because by the time AI could cause mass unemployment, we're very close to it either killing us all or creating as close to a utopia as we can get. So, you know, that's a comfort I guess? 😂😭 Apparently when they discovered the possibility of nuclear winter, people tried to discredit the scientists because they thought it would make them fall behind Russia.
Sound familiar? Different potentially civilization-ending technology, different boogeyman, same playbook. Read Merchants of Doubt. Big AI (particularly Yann and Meta) clearly already have and they're just copying tried and true tactics. "Worrying about CCP espionage at AI labs is racist" is important to counter.
First off, the CCP does do espionage all the time, and they are undoubtedly going to target the top AI labs. Secondly, the CCP has an explicit policy of responding “that’s racist!” to all criticisms from Westerners. They know it’s a win-argument button in the current climate. Let’s not fall for such a predictable trap. Thirdly, you can tell if it’s racist by seeing whether they target people of Chinese descent who have no family in China or people who are Asian but not Chinese. The way CCP espionage mostly works is that it gets ordinary citizens to share information, otherwise the CCP will hurt their families who are still in China (e.g. destroy careers, disappear them, torture, etc). If you’re of Chinese descent but have no family in China, there’s no more risk of you being a Chinese spy than anybody else. Likewise, if you’re Korean or Japanese etc there’s no danger. Racism would target anybody Asian looking. That’s what racism is. Judging people by the color of their skin. Even if you use the definition of systemic racism, it doesn’t work. It’s not a system that priviliges one race over another, otherwise it would target people of Chinese descent without any family in China and Koreans and Japanese, etc. This is not a valid concern and we should not fall for the “it’s racist to worry about CCP espionage!” play. Yann's behavior is not consistent with an altruistic truth seeker
It is consistent with somebody who is just trying to make a lot of money and pursue interesting projects regardless of its effects on the world He is the scientist inventing ice 9 from Kurt Vonnegut's book, Cat's Cradle. It's the story of how a scientist invents a product that can destroy the world just because he can and it's interesting. Believing all tech is bad is silly
Believing all tech is good is also silly Evaluating each technology based on its pros and cons is the rational stance Calling AI notkilleveryoneists "luddites" or "anti-tech" is skilled manipulators trying to turn people against each other & people should stop falling for it. AI notkilleveryoneism isn't about no AI ever. It's about making AI safely. It's not move fast and break things if "break things" includes "lights out for all of us".6/24/2024 It's so weird that I'm the one shouting from the rooftops to be careful about AI.
I'm a digital nomad who regularly drives motorcycles in third world countries and who dropped out of uni to take on the lucrative and secure career of starting charities. I am constantly poking the bear online by saying what I really think, consequences be damned. My personality is risk-taking. I think most people worry too much. But it's different to risk my life compared to risking literally everybody's life. Risking my death is different from risking trillions of people being tortured with no escape. So, coming from a risk-taking founder - I think the AI labs are being insanely reckless right now. I think I get Sam. He and I are similar in many ways. You don't start orgs if you're a timid soul. But OpenAI isn't like any other Bay Area startup. It could be creating a new intelligent species and he and all other AI lab leaders need to up their safety game. They need to be the improbable - cautious entrepreneurs. The stakes are too high. It's not move fast and break things if "break things" includes "lights out for all of us". If you look at the last 300 years, it's obvious that life has gotten massively better.
Unless you count animals. Which you should. At which point, the last 300 years has led to the largest genocides and torture camps of unending horror the world has ever known And remember: we treat animals poorly because they're less intelligent than us and we've had the most limited evolutionary pressures to care about them. How do you think an AI that's 1000x smarter than us will treat us if it's not given extremely strong evolutionary pressures to care about us? I actually think most of the time you should go to bed angry.
It's practically impossible to solve a conflict when you're both tired and cranky. Try again tomorrow when you're both well rested. If the options are solve it while tired and cranky or never solve it, it's better to solve it when you're tired. But you're grown-ass adults. Solve it tomorrow. You can do that. You have executive functioning. You can make plans and follow through on them. Make a plan to discuss it when you're both in a good state. I believe in your ability to do this simple thing. If people do not appear to be consistent with what they say they believe, look for something else they are being consistent with
Why would AI risk deniers dismiss negative outcomes but also be afraid of liabilities? Most AI risk deniers are being consistent with just wanting to work on whatever projects they find interesting, regardless of societal effects. They are being the scientist who invented ice nine in Cat's Cradle. A substance that could destroy the entire world and did. Why did the scientist invent it? Because it was interesting. |
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