ETHICS

Regulations Without Enforcement and Liability Are Ineffective

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27 July 2025 21h35

You can pass all the regulations you want about procedures, but when they're not really followed and the outcome goes wrong, there's no deep pockets to sue. And if you require insurance against bad outcomes, there's no need to adlib 99,000 words of guesswork procedures into law.

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Intelligence Growth: Exponential vs Logarithmic Functions Debate

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27 July 2025 19h47

If it’s a logarithmic function it’s not intelligence. What we need is an exponential or at least linear one.

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Critical perspectives on OpenAI’s direction and impact

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27 July 2025 19h40

What channel are you guys watching? I’ve been critical of OpenAI quite a bit actually.

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We Choose to Ascend with AGI

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27 July 2025 19h33

“We Choose to Ascend with AGI 👁️🪐✨”#AGI #AGIALPHA #ASIFirst pic.twitter.com/Cbu2ETu8EH
— MONTREAL.AI (@Montreal_AI) 27 juillet 2025

“We Choose to Ascend with AGI ” #AGI #AGIALPHA #ASIFirst

Humans excel at tailoring arguments and falsehoods to audiences

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27 July 2025 18h06

Many humans are already more appealing at this than me, because they don't restrain themselves to valid arguments, and can further specialize falsehoods around particular audiences. "AI doom but in 2050!" used to be hugely popular, for instance.

→ View original post on X — @emollick

Limited Research on AI Impact Across Key Professions

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27 July 2025 17h40

There are far too few careful studies of the progress of AI in key professions and fields that may be most impacted Example: there are only a couple of good controlled studies on lawyers working with AI, the most recent used (now obsolete) o1-preview & even that had big effects.

AI Development Speed Outpacing Human Maturation and Incentive Alignment

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27 July 2025 17h08

While some factions would cheerfully yell "We're just following local incentive gradients so we're in the right!", others would explicitly reply, "General AI tech improves faster than humans grow up, so in 5 years AIs will do non-junior jobs."

Job Security Requires Demonstrating Excellence Above AI Capabilities

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27 July 2025 17h05

Your job is not safe if you think you do it better than an AI; your employer has to be able to easily tell the difference between you and the usual run of incompetents. Also the AI will improve every 4 months.