Curtis Yarvin isn't a "trope". This is the same guy who mocked me for worrying that an AI could take over computers given Web access, saying that I didn't know how the HTTP protocol worked and that nobody could take over the Internet if only allowed HTTP GET requests.
@esyudkowsky
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Fear that AI writing may prioritize popularity over quality
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Well, that's the hope. My (short-term) fear is if it proves that outside of a tiny subpopulation there's no demand for good writing or ability to discern it; the AI outputs go to where there's max demand, and sparkling generic deepities outcompete thinking.
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AI Progress Outpacing Alignment Efforts
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We're steadily on track to get that. Aligning it to anything whatsoever, not so much.
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AI capability gap: power without control except extinction
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You are equally dead either way because nobody has acquired the technical capability to make any powerful AI do anything whatsoever (besides kill everyone).
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Superintelligence Alignment Impossibility and Modern Pride in Destruction
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All of those scenarios kill you because none of these groups has the ability to align any superintelligence to do anything, nor are on track to acquire it; and fighting over *who* gets the pride of choicelessly destroying the world seems to me sad and also a very modern evil.
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AI Alignment Terms Co-opted and Derailed by Others
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Probably he did? He correctly didn't list "AI alignment", and all other terms besides that and "AI notkilleveryoneism" have been successfully stolen and derailed.
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AI Safety Concerns Labeled as Not Killing Everyone
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The substantive concerns now go by the name "AI notkilleveryoneism" which is unfortunately the only term that's even slightly hard to yank away.
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Renaming AI Safety Concerns to ‘AI Not Kill Everyone-ism’
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At this point yes, hence renaming the more substantive concerns to "AI notkilleveryoneism".
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Credentials Over Learning: Universities Sell Obedience, Not Knowledge
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Try offering learning without the credential and see how many students want to pay you $250,000 for it. They made students output remixed babble requiring so little deep understanding that the latest GPT can get an A-. The credential was in and for obedient busywork.
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Mainstream Media AI Writers Lack Adequate Human Fact-Checking
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tl;dr: don't believe the mainstream media when they tell you that their AI writers are being checked by humans before going straight to publication https://
futurism.com/msn-is-publish
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