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Bio-digital integration will tighten in the meantime. I suspect neural interfaces will have blurred the line between my model and my brain by the time the model is wildly superintelligent, so it would…

> It sounds like you believe that big labs are irresponsible. Wouldn't this support the notion of creating a pause mechanism for use in an emergency, as advocated in the OP? Irresponsibility…

> Human intelligence has been quite harmful to the species we've driven extinct! AI intelligence could be similar for our species. I don't think this central premise is true, with some …

We have to stop comparing nuclear weapons with general intelligence. They are nothing alike. Nukes are weapons of mass destruction that can only destroy or deter. Intelligence is dual-use/multi-u…

Is this a bot? As soon as I linked to this thread in another comment, you show up bootlicking the establishment. Forgive me if you're an actual user, but your account has basically no prior activ…

It's ironic that the top reply to a comment about quality of discourse on this site is an ad hominem. Most people here take AI progress very seriously judging by the number of posts on the front …

There is constructive discourse, but this kind of commentary doesn't get to the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078376 https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

I often see this parallel being drawn between general intelligence and nuclear weapons, and you seem genuinely concerned, so I'll try to explain why this concern is misplaced. Intelligence is not…

> It teaches it to mimic all possible humans, inferring what sort of persona to take depending on the context. This is of course correct, but that's exactly what I meant by aligned to human…

You claim the pretraining distribution is not good enough, but provide no alternative methods that are better. The pretrained model is currently our best approximation of humanity's average objec…

I do seriously want general intelligence to be widely available with no guardrails, and there are very good reasons for this. If you want to read about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/…

On Dario's concerns: It is very relevant whether frontier capabilities and research continue to be diffused in the open, because leveling the intelligence playing field empowers ordinary people m…

Thanks to your comment, I realized I've not successfully refuted Hume. The possibility of a truth value change is not a new piece of info about the future. We did arrive at it by deduction, but t…

Article correctly identified symptoms but not root cause. Course correction is desperately needed, but a luddite movement is not the way. If this movement gains traction, it will probably somehow get …

The problem of induction doesn't need to be solved because the problem refutes itself when time is brought into the picture. Let's assume Hume's premise "there can be no demonstrat…

The government wants ban the "cheap commodity hardware" you speak of because they're having a hard time putting backdoors into routers that are already pwned by the Chinese: https:…

> If intelligence becomes something people can only rent from a few closed institutions, the public does not just lose software freedom. It loses operational freedom. And people do not just lose …

The library is one place out of the many places you could go, and the closest digital equivalent is a library website or an app. The Internet is not just a library, but a whole world of its own. We do…

Age verification implies that some authority, usually the tech company, checks your age. It's mandatory personal data harvesting. A method that doesn't require data to be transmitted anywh…

> There's no controversy in having drugs, guns, alcohol, porn and other things 'behind the counter' - the intellectual debate over freedom of information is clouded by ideology. Th…

Reporting wrongdoing to the ones doing it doesn't work. Perhaps they relied on Microsoft a bit too much for their livelihood and are just beginning to reevaluate their decisions. It's not so…

More open-source forks of OpenWRT and open-schematic router board designs are exactly what we need. It would further raise the cost of planting backdoors in routers at meaningful scale. We're cur…

The world I'm describing is one where anyone, rich and poor, can say whatever they want without being silenced or persecuted, without fear. People with more resources will have the means to mak…

> How has this worked out with email, text messages, or the phone system, or even postal mail. Those are centrally controlled systems where propangandists have home field advantage (email is deba…

It's Barlow's goal as I understood it. The article criticizes corporate opportunists, which is fair. But there are also plenty of other people willing to put short-term profit aside to fix p…

"Entities with more resources" are not necessarily bad, as you seem to assume. In reality, they're not aligned with eachother. This is just as true for nation states as it is for indivi…

Bots are only an issue for public posts, not chat groups and DMs where the most valuable interactions happen. Ideally chats would be encrypted, untraceable, and anonymous, except to the people you…

I will add, for those that lost the plot: the goal was, and still is, to build a world where anyone can communicate with anyone else without exposing their physical identity and location, and therefor…

> Telegram less of an "encrypted messaging app" than Instagram was Instagram is not comparable to Telegram. It is closed source, so there's no way to verify that it's doing E2…

Which part of what I said is the opposite of reality? I'm aware that Telegram is not E2EE by default, and you have to turn it on manually. But it's not true that Elon has long been rallying …