Dark Forest hypothesis? That's old news; the machine civilization that gained a monopoly at stomping out spacefaring civilizations before they squander too many resources lurks in the darkness since the Dawn wars that defined the early days of life in the galaxy.
@plinz
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Recursive humor on AI instruction-following and existential risks
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in large part i was trying to make a recursive joke about my inability to follow written instructions (and certainly not a "real argument" to mitigate the existential risks we face due to magical buttons), but your cognitively useless response puts me in the 5.5%
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Journalistic Integrity vs Corporate Interests in AI Coverage
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I don’t claim that Dwarkesh is right and Jensen is wrong, but that Dwarkesh tries to be right while Jensen tries to serve Nividia. You don’t recognize a hustler when he drops on your head don’t you
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AI Philosophy Trend Growing More Painful Weekly
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Yes, the new AI philosophy trend is growing more painful by the week
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LLM Emotions as Performance: Beyond Origin and Purpose
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It's an excellent analogy. In the same way that flying is not defined by its origin or purpose but by a performance, feelings are a performance. The author's argument is bad, regardless of whether LLMs have emotions.
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Autonomous Vehicles Social Cost and Public Infrastructure Investment
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You are asking to exclude millions of people who cannot afford renting human drivers from being able to getting around. That is an incredible social cost. Let's find other sources of income. How about we build infrastructure again?
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Jensen Outperforms Dario on AI Podcast Despite Ethics Concerns
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Jensen did a better job than Dario, who was unwise enough to sincerely announces his intention to bake political preferences into AI models to topple governments he dislikes, but he still bombed on this particular podcast, which is more averse to BS than any other AI show
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Status Bias in Tech Leadership: Intelligence Perception Beyond Credentials
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For many people, perception of a presentation is biased by status: how can the hip, successful, manipulative decitrillionaire CEO talking to the weird 25yo nerd not be the dominant intellect?
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Jensen’s Nvidia Bias vs Dwarkesh’s Objective Analysis
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The difference is that Dwarkesh genuinely tries to understand the world while Jensen tries to serve Nvidia's interests. ("How do you think you can [physically] double compute over multiple years?" – "All supply problems are always solved in 2-3 years" etc)
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Nvidia sales to China as American economic advantage
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"Let's agree that Nvidia is an American company, therefore every sale that Nvidia makes to China is a win for America"