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Don't compare general intelligence to bioweapons. A bioweapon cannot defend against or reverse the effects of another bioweapon.

This is why you can't gatekeep AI capabilities. It will eventually be taken from you by force. It's time to open-source everything. Papers, code, weights, financial records. Do all of your r…

This is why you can't gatekeep AI capabilities. It will eventually be taken from you by force. Open-source everything. Papers, code, weights, financial records. Do all of your research in the ope…

In that case, what survives and forges ahead is probably some kind of human-AI hybrid. The purely digital AIs will want robotic and possibly even biological bodies, while humans (including some of the…

Yeah, I will admit, the existential risk exists either way. And we will need neural interfaces long term if we want to survive. But I think the risk is lower in the distributed scenario because most o…

I think your scenario is already better, not worse. Those 8 agents will have a much harder time taking action when there are 2 million other pesky little agents that aren't aligned with them.

We can bank on people acting in self-interest. The nefarious actor will find themselves opposed by millions of others that are not aligned with them, so it would be much more difficult for them to do …

> I have strong signal that Dario, Jared, and Sam would genuinely burn at the stake before acceding to something that's a) against their values, and b) they think is a net negative in the long…

I don't think the cost has been doing down or will continue to trend downward long term. You're assuming that the public hasn't gained and won't gain additional capabilities while …

We don't need everyone to be completely anonymous to state and corporate actors. We just need to make it so that they can't identify and surveil everyone at once, because it would be too exp…

Do you want culture to be frozen and instant digital communication with anyone else in the world to become a privilege of the few? Because that's where "clean" leads. And all you get is…

Anthropic is not on the side of the people. None of these companies are. They've made it clear that they want to gatekeep LLM capabilities. https://www.anthropic.com/news/det…

The "normies" aren't as dumb as people on here think they are. There are plenty of side channels to activate normies. The reason good leaders don't seem to seek out leadership posi…

> We are literally sending a request to our government's server to sign You've already lost. You're at the government's mercy. They can simply refuse to sign. "Mr. John Smi…

Kumbaya is also a form of self-interest. We're still very much self-interested, it's just that we can see a tiny bit further into the future and realize that we need to better our surroundin…

There is hope. It's not only possible, but it is likely and is already underway. DNS can be replaced. IPv4/v6 can be replaced. We just need to build a layer on top that ignores the access co…

I make this argument to neutralize the "protect the children" excuse and also delegitimize the age verification "solution" by pointing out that on-device settings are more effectiv…

I'll spell it out for you since you can't read between the lines. It's not actually about fire-keeping in tribes to protect children. It's about certain people (governments, corpor…

> I just like, can't help but start with fuck these companies. All other arguments are downstream of that. Better the nanny state than Nanny Zuck. How about we reject all institutional nannies…

It's much easier to give individual users control over their own device than to give a centralized authority control over what happens on everyone's device over the Internet. Local user-cont…

Right now, using web portals is indeed better than installing apps, but this does not have be the case. In fact, it should be the other way around. You only need to make two changes to make your nativ…

The natural progression of this technology is probably miniaturized transducer arrays on a chip, which would enable non-invasive write access to the entire brain. This kind of tech should be developed…

If someone puts a donate button beside their name or in the corner of their webpage, and that button leads to a payment page, I think that's good enough. The point of paying creators is so that t…

I'm not saying humans can have every property in existence, but we do have consciousness, and that might be one thing computers can't have.

We could normalize paying content creators directly. So instead of paywalls or ads, we get "donate" buttons.

There's some chance LLMs contain representations of whatever's in the brain that's responsible for consciousness. The text it's trained on was written by humans, and all humans hav…

There's some chance LLMs contain representations of whatever's in the brain that's responsible for consciousness. The text it's trained on was written by humans, and all humans hav…

Conscious or not, there's a much more pressing problem of capability. It's not like human society operates on the principle that conscious beings are valuable, despite that being a commonly …

The concern is that OSes which don't implement the feature will be outlawed. Movie ratings don't outlaw movies and actually provides a good framework: instead of mandating that OSes implemen…