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Leopold Aschenbrenner essay on the AI arms race that will change world by 2027

Really good read and a podcast he did about it. Dude is ver...
Very tactful stead dopamine
  06/12/24
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Very tactful stead dopamine
  06/12/24
pretty chill that the world will end in five years and I spe...
Bistre irradiated yarmulke party of the first part
  06/12/24
It’s part of the data set
Very tactful stead dopamine
  06/12/24
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Vibrant idiotic depressive
  06/12/24
*superintelligent AI addressing the world* "I'm gay an...
seedy chapel
  06/12/24
180000000000000000000000000000
Vibrant idiotic depressive
  06/12/24
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Very tactful stead dopamine
  06/14/24
He just had another podcast with Chollet that was interestin...
Buff buck-toothed police squad kitchen
  06/12/24
nothing being done in "ai" right now is a road to ...
Exhilarant Silver Shrine
  06/12/24
This is not right. The trend lines are clear.
Very tactful stead dopamine
  06/13/24
no
Exhilarant Silver Shrine
  06/13/24
Most people seem like pattern matchers who aren’t able...
Buff buck-toothed police squad kitchen
  06/13/24
llms far surpass humans at defined, stereotyped tasks that w...
Exhilarant Silver Shrine
  06/13/24
I agree with this but most people suck at dealing with novel...
Buff buck-toothed police squad kitchen
  06/13/24
this is silly
Exhilarant Silver Shrine
  06/13/24
I, for one, cant wait for AI to do all my TPS reports for me...
ebony death wish
  06/13/24
The interesting thing about his essay is the geopolitics par...
Very tactful stead dopamine
  06/13/24
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Very tactful stead dopamine
  06/16/24
Ivanka read it and endorsed it. Can’t believe how much...
Buff buck-toothed police squad kitchen
  10/27/24
There’s like a five percent chance of total destructio...
Very tactful stead dopamine
  10/27/24
And the other scenarios? I don’t see much room for an ...
Buff buck-toothed police squad kitchen
  10/27/24
pretty sure something like Idiocracy covers most of the 90%
Histrionic marketing idea
  10/27/24
Nope. It's going to be a post-scarcity utopia, extinction, o...
brindle dilemma
  10/27/24
Right. Like what would be a plausible middle ground with hyp...
Buff buck-toothed police squad kitchen
  10/27/24
...
Very tactful stead dopamine
  11/01/24
Where r we on this
.,.,.,.,,,,.,,.,.,.,...,,..,,
  07/31/26
We are currently at a point where AI has surpassed almost al...
The Penis
  07/31/26
lol we’ve got a live one here folks
.,.,.,.,,,,.,,.,.,.,...,,..,,
  07/31/26
Do you think you are more intelligent than Claude Fable?
The Penis
  07/31/26
Yes
.,.,.,.,,,,.,,.,.,.,...,,..,,
  07/31/26
He seems extremely gay (but I guess he isn't?) https://x....
Ceci n'est pas un pumo
  07/31/26


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Date: June 12th, 2024 3:47 PM
Author: Very tactful stead dopamine

Really good read and a podcast he did about it. Dude is very smart.

tl;dr version: superintelligence is within reach and the capex to get there is being spent, the teams are being assembled, the power plants built, etc.; eventually US government will step in to oversee the project as a kind of Manhattan Project because a six-month head start is the equivalent of 20-30 years in arms development; things get really weird from a game theory perspective once superintelligence is achieved but before the robots take over. It's US v. China with the Middle East and Russia posing major risks because of their abundant natural energy resources.

Essay: https://situational-awareness.ai/

Four-hour podcast: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/leopold-aschenbrenner

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47740848)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 4:28 PM
Author: Very tactful stead dopamine



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Date: June 12th, 2024 4:50 PM
Author: Bistre irradiated yarmulke party of the first part

pretty chill that the world will end in five years and I spend my precious remaining days poasting on a decrepit law school admissions forum

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47741056)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 6:14 PM
Author: Very tactful stead dopamine

It’s part of the data set

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47741277)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:22 PM
Author: Vibrant idiotic depressive



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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:25 PM
Author: seedy chapel

*superintelligent AI addressing the world*

"I'm gay and retarded"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47741568)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:26 PM
Author: Vibrant idiotic depressive

180000000000000000000000000000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47741570)



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Date: June 14th, 2024 9:03 PM
Author: Very tactful stead dopamine



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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:22 PM
Author: Buff buck-toothed police squad kitchen

He just had another podcast with Chollet that was interesting and raised some concerns about this LLM maximalist point of view. LLMs still perform quite poorly on ARC. There are real concerns that transformer scaling will not address all the problems with out of distribution generalization and algorithmic reasoning. This buys a bit of time and probably pushes out timelines past 2027. Things will become progressively weirder though over the next decade and it’s hard to see how AGI is out more than 15 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47741554)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:29 PM
Author: Exhilarant Silver Shrine

nothing being done in "ai" right now is a road to actual intelligence. what we have right now is essentially a sophisticated version of a database that can accept unstructured queries and that can interpolate between dataset entries. it would take a complete paradigm shift to get to something qualitatively more powerful than that. may or may not happen.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47741579)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: Very tactful stead dopamine

This is not right. The trend lines are clear.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47743102)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 12:51 PM
Author: Exhilarant Silver Shrine

no

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47743420)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 1:23 PM
Author: Buff buck-toothed police squad kitchen

Most people seem like pattern matchers who aren’t able to robustly deal with novel situations. I would trust GPT-4 more to solve a random math word problem or answer RC questions from an LSAT than most people. The interpolation/extrapolation distinction becomes less and less meaningful in high dimensional spaces when you are training on everything. I agree LLMs don’t go all the way but they very likely go a lot further than they do now and there are other things in the AI space used for game playing that look like they can be combined with LLMs to bootstrap capabilities.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47743513)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 2:01 PM
Author: Exhilarant Silver Shrine

llms far surpass humans at defined, stereotyped tasks that we have a lot of data for. they can't generalize to unseen environments (new probability distributions) and they lack an inherent teleology to prompt them interact with those environments.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47743680)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 2:47 PM
Author: Buff buck-toothed police squad kitchen

I agree with this but most people suck at dealing with novel situations too and they can’t even do the routine cognitive tasks that GPT-4 excels at. I don’t think a median human could be made competitive with it at reading comprehension tasks. With 100x the training compute, there is no chance. There is really no principled reason why LLMs paired with model based RL couldn’t be made data efficient and adaptable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47743890)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 4:14 PM
Author: Exhilarant Silver Shrine

this is silly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47744229)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 11:39 AM
Author: ebony death wish

I, for one, cant wait for AI to do all my TPS reports for me. Whatever will I do once those are automated? Never mind that basically everything we do in Compliance is bespoke transaction monitoring and the vanilla bulk transaction stuff was automated 24-25 years ago and hasnt had humans involved in a generation anyway.

Like the biggest thing is Compliance now is marijuana and the hemp exemption BS that plagues us. The fuck is AI going to do about any of that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47743117)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 11:43 AM
Author: Very tactful stead dopamine

The interesting thing about his essay is the geopolitics part. The time when AGI is pursued by private companies is coming to a close.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#47743136)



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Date: June 16th, 2024 7:28 PM
Author: Very tactful stead dopamine



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Date: October 27th, 2024 3:00 PM
Author: Buff buck-toothed police squad kitchen

Ivanka read it and endorsed it. Can’t believe how much AI is starting to affect elite thinking

https://x.com/IvankaTrump/status/1839002887600370145

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#48246542)



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Date: October 27th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: Very tactful stead dopamine

There’s like a five percent chance of total destruction and a five percent chance of positive total transformation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#48247027)



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Date: October 27th, 2024 6:20 PM
Author: Buff buck-toothed police squad kitchen

And the other scenarios? I don’t see much room for an outcome in between.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#48247316)



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Date: October 27th, 2024 6:22 PM
Author: Histrionic marketing idea

pretty sure something like Idiocracy covers most of the 90%

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#48247323)



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Date: October 27th, 2024 6:24 PM
Author: brindle dilemma

Nope. It's going to be a post-scarcity utopia, extinction, or some sort of truly weird outcome like everyone being uploaded into a simulation of something retarded for eternity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#48247333)



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Date: October 27th, 2024 8:36 PM
Author: Buff buck-toothed police squad kitchen

Right. Like what would be a plausible middle ground with hyper intelligent machines? You would have to believe intelligence tops at exactly the human level, when we have many reasons for believing that is not the case. Life can not go on in a normal way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#48247755)



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Date: November 1st, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: Very tactful stead dopamine



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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:16 AM
Author: .,.,.,.,,,,.,,.,.,.,...,,..,,


Where r we on this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#50035998)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:23 AM
Author: The Penis

We are currently at a point where AI has surpassed almost all if not all humans in intelligence. And it's not even 2027 yet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#50036002)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:25 AM
Author: .,.,.,.,,,,.,,.,.,.,...,,..,,


lol we’ve got a live one here folks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#50036007)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:26 AM
Author: The Penis

Do you think you are more intelligent than Claude Fable?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#50036009)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:45 AM
Author: .,.,.,.,,,,.,,.,.,.,...,,..,,


Yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#50036028)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 1:57 AM
Author: Ceci n'est pas un pumo

He seems extremely gay (but I guess he isn't?)

https://x.com/dnapway/status/2082876150322540657

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2#50036052)