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Curator of @PessimistsArc • • AI Doomer Beat Reporter • Email: louis @hey .com

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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
2 years
I call this the BLACKMIRROR FALLACY: When new technologies are treated as much more threatening and risky than old technologies with proven risks/harms. When technological progress is seen as a bigger threat than technological stagnation.
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Reuters
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Germany to pull the plug on three of its last six nuclear plants
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Louis Anslow
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Department of Nuclear Energy should have this
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thebes
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this goes so hard, i can't believe it's on a government building. need more of this energy nuclear reactors should have prometheus stealing fire from the atom datacenters should have an angel with a flaming sword holding back chaos
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Louis Anslow
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This tweet = Boomers and millennials peering into the life of a Gen-Xers with fascination
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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A Waymo costs $7.60 for 15 min ride. So for 8 hours that is $243. Put a bed in it and you have moving hotel room. Extend range and you could go to sleep in SF and Wake up in LA.
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I DO NOT HAVE MONEY Take these shells as payment and pretend like it is 1200 BC
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Ozempic has gone from strange new treatment to human right in record time 🚀
@SenSanders
Bernie Sanders
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There is no rational reason, other than greed, for Novo Nordisk to charge Americans nearly $1,000 a month for Ozempic when it costs less than $5 to manufacture it and can be purchased in Germany for just $59. Novo must substantially reduce the price of Ozempic in the US now.
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Louis Anslow
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Now we know what Ilya saw
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@bcnorange only BOOMERS have earwax.
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Louis Anslow
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Politico profile on AI lobbying has HILARIOUS anecdote: Tristan Harris showed lawmakers META chatbot could give instructions to make bio-weapon Mark Zuckerberg was present, took out phone & got same instructions using Google Room erupted into laughter!
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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@DrPopCultureBG shut it kill joy
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@LouisAnslow
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Lex Friedman was extremely patient with Kanye and confronted him repeatedly, while trying to educate him. Kanye's response was essentially: sHuT uP JEW!
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Louis Anslow
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In the comfortable complacency of peacetime pessimists feel useful. In the hard reality of wartime their uselessness is revealed.
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Louis Anslow
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Why the fuck is no one talking about AI creating jobs? Are we just going to pretend technology didn’t create ALL THE JOBS?
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Louis Anslow
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@biocompound
Bunny
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Can someone explain to me why we *shouldn't* pause AI development Sounds like a no brainer to me
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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"Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts."
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@tsarnick
Tsarathustra
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The New York Times's lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft seeks "destruction... of all GPT or other LLM models and training sets that incorporate Times Works"
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Louis Anslow
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Over regulating AI will keep the red lines red.
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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If only there was some technology that could mass produce infinite micky mouse content
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not a sloth
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this guy is becoming public domain in 3 weeks btw
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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I call this the BLACKMIRROR FALLACY: When new technologies are treated as much more threatening and risky than old technologies with proven risks/harms. When technological progress is seen as a bigger threat than technological stagnation.
@everywhereist
Geraldine Just Follow TheEverywhereist on Threads
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So the odds of getting a blood clot from the J&J vaccine are literally one in a million and they stopped administering it. Do you know the odds of getting blood clots from birth control? It's 1/1000. (This is considered very low odds.)
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Louis Anslow
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*Gen-Zers
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Nick Bostrom is starting to worry that AI fear could prevent upsides of AI in the same way nuclear fear prevented upsides of nuclear power. This is a watershed, pivotal moment for the AI risk movement. Bostrom has broken ranks.
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@jachaseyoung
Jordan Chase-Young
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FINALLY: AI xrisker Nick Bostrom regrets focusing on AI risk, now worries that our fearful herd mentality will drive us to crush AI and destroy our future potential. (from an UnHerd podcast today) Nick Bostrom: It would be tragic if we never developed advanced artificial…
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@biocompound
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Can someone explain to me why we *shouldn't* pause AI development Sounds like a no brainer to me
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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Overpopulation panic lead to... millions of forced sterilizations Nuclear power panic lead to... millions of tons of unneeded Co2 emissions and an emboldened Russia The GMO panic lead to... millions of blind and dead children in the third world AI panic will lead to...
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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What AI doomers won't tell you: MODERNA uses AI to create its mRNA vaccines. BEFORE AI it produced 30 mRNAs per month AFTER AI it produced 1000 mRNAs per month
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
4 years
@CrazyJimP Boomers stupid for not building advanced spell check that can autocorrect this based on context
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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@jeremycorbyn Neither did this
@jeremycorbyn
Jeremy Corbyn
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Thanks Hugo Chavez for showing that the poor matter and wealth can be shared. He made massive contributions to Venezuela & a very wide world
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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The iPad was announced 10 years ago today. It got roasted HARD: "iTs JUsT a BiG ipOd ToUCh!!!" A thread 1/10
@Reddit
Reddit
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The iPad: no flash, looks like a big iTouch, with an iTouch interface. I'm underwhelmed. [technology] 404 points http://reddit.com/auuxp
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Louis Anslow
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@garrytan @kane GoogleMeetFinal.doc
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Louis Anslow
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Jesus Christ this cult must be stopped NOW
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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What if… sci-fi isn’t a good way to risk assess technology?
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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C.S. Lewis: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some…
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Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth
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Effective altruism might be the villain a lot of us here should be focused on.
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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Here is Nick Bostrom admitting that AI panic feels out of control right now, "like a wrecking ball" that could "destroy the future"
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Louis Anslow
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Nick Bostrom is starting to worry that AI fear could prevent upsides of AI in the same way nuclear fear prevented upsides of nuclear power. This is a watershed, pivotal moment for the AI risk movement. Bostrom has broken ranks.
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Louis Anslow
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What happened in 1999?
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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Things that have always been around, tend to hold a subconcious authority over us, they arn't questioned because they aren't noticed. Example: backspace on a keyboard is just a holdover from typewriters. Design methodology: cc @eli_schiff
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Louis Anslow
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Frantastic — e/acc
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I have never seen a hot person asking for a pause on AI.
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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The most effective risk mitigators are determinate optimists. They believe in solutions. They’re often drowned out by the least effective risk mitigators: the indeterminate pessimists. Why? Because they’re too busy building solutions to write op-eds and do Ted talks.
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OpenAI panic marketing playbook: Step 1: “WE CREATED SOMETHING INCREDIBLE, EARTH SHATTERING” 🤓😎🚨 Step 2: “We’re too scared to release it, we’ll sacrifice profits for safety” 😱😌🧐✋ Step 3: “We changed our mind, signup now” 😇😅
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Louis Anslow
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Mr Beast has so many views he struggles to find sponsors who can afford to pay for so much value at once. The solution to this is him launching and selling his own products within videos
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Louis Anslow
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@JeffreyKBerns City Name idea: Ethcot (Ethereum City of Tomorrow) Other idea: working on new age knowledge accreditation that could be rolled out to school/college in Ethcot see @NewtrustFdn - will do to hiring credentials what blockchain did to currency
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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The danger of overstating extinction risk from powerful new technologies? It offers justification for an almost unlimited number of preventable deaths.
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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Science fiction has conditioned us to be hypervigilant about avoiding dystopias born of technological acceleration & totally indifferent to avoiding dystopias born of technological stagnation 🇩🇪Nuclear free Germany faces energy crisis 🇱🇰100% organic Sri Lanka faces food crisis
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Louis Anslow
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We MUST stop treating technological acceleration as a bigger threat than technological stagnation.
@DavidDeutschOxf
David Deutsch
1 year
Hear, hear. Also fundamental scientific research. And economic growth. All of them, or any one of them, might easily become necessary to save the species. Within living memory, civilisation was saved by a breakthrough in metamathematics.
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Louis Anslow
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Ok. Why isn’t Neo-Hellenism a thing with Prometheus as god?!?
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@EloiPoboiX Yes, as long as you call it truthpropagating
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Louis Anslow
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TikTok is so distracting it drove record sales of books. Netflix is so addictive, it lost 200,000 subscribers.
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Louis Anslow
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How depressed do you need to be, to see AI image gen and think anything other than THAT IS THE COOLEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN
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Louis Anslow
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I call this the Frankenstein Fallacy: the propensity to treat technological stagnation as safer than technological acceleration.
@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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Overpopulation panic lead to... millions of forced sterilizations Nuclear power panic lead to... millions of tons of unneeded Co2 emissions and an emboldened Russia The GMO panic lead to... millions of blind and dead children in the third world AI panic will lead to...
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Louis Anslow
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@juanbuis @DanielYubi This would make a great animated short.
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Louis Anslow
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She’s a 10 but thinks every economic transaction is exploitation
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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I call them problemists. The glass is half full full glass has no ice The full glass with ice has no lemon The full glass with ice and lemon, doesn’t have organic lemon
@ylecun
Yann LeCun
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@calogerozarbo No one wants to hire negativists. Which is why they set up independent institutes funded by rich doomers.
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Louis Anslow
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Science fiction has conditioned us to be hypervigilant about avoiding dystopias born of technological acceleration & totally indifferent to avoiding dystopias born of technological stagnation
@MaxCRoser
Max Roser
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Until 50 years ago, CO₂ emissions developed in lockstep with economic growth in France. Since the early 1970s, the opposite has been true: emissions declined as people in France got richer.
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@halltrent43
ᔕᑕOYOTᗴᔕ
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This could honestly be a cool ass way to communicate with people who speak other languages 🤷🏻‍♂️
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I wouldn’t worry Nick. It isn’t as if this exact thing happened with: Nuclear power, depriving world of key carbon free energy source Overpopulation, leading to forced sterilization campaigns and infanticide GMOs, leading to millions of deaths from malnutrition (golden rice)
@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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Here is Nick Bostrom admitting that AI panic feels out of control right now, "like a wrecking ball" that could "destroy the future"
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This is so insane and deserves much much more attention in the context of talking about risk of new technologies.
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Louis Anslow
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Technological progress?? 😅
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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In 1983, Steve Jobs predicted ChatGPT: He imagined the next Aristotle writing all ideas down into personal computer, then future generations using it to train a chatbot: "We can ask this machine, hey what would Aristotle have said?" Hear audio here:
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Louis Anslow
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Oh look it’s AI reducing X-risk
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Louis Anslow
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Journalism shapes the conversation less than the memes. Many articles that were titled ‘Do Cellphones Cause Brain Tumours’ are pretty skeptical. But a headline should be treated like a tweet: a stand alone piece of media. Harmful in same way ‘Do Immigrants Steal Children?’ is
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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Anti-capitalist fixation is a great way to rationalize your chronic depression.
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Louis Anslow
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Picasso was painting like an adult by 14 (left) and like a child by 49 (right)
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Louis Anslow
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@pmarca SPOILER ALERT
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Louis Anslow
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I DO NOT HAVE MONEY Take these shells as payment and pretend like it is 1200 BC
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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Other examples of pessimists sounding smart in peacetime, then being revealed as useless and dangerous in wartime: ☢️ Anti-nuclear power movement in Germany before invasion of Ukraine. 🌱 Leftwing Anti-GMO/emerging biotech movement before global pandemic.
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Ah fuck. 😞 I was hoping he’d depart from other reviewers
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Politico reports Tristan Harris helped inspire Biden’s executive order on AI. () Harris told Glenn Beck he’d have let his late-mother die, rather than strong AI curing her, to avoid extinction of humanity.
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@waitbutwhy loving the 1960s vibe
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Louis Anslow
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Childhood has been declared ruined for 100s of years by Smartphones, TV, Videogames, Comics and Novels. Go back in time trying to find when childhood was supposedly uncorrupted and you find yourself at a point when child labour was common and child mortality high.
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Article calls for state control of cyberspace Not ONCE does it mention authoritarian efforts to outlaw open-source AI Not ONCE does it mention efforts to weaken encryption Not ONCE does it mention efforts to have forced real ID on web THAT is the real techno-authoritarianism
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Wired rightly getting some shit right now. However, almost exactly a year ago @timnitGebru tried to warn the world about EA...
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Louis Anslow
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Replacing ‘AI’ with ‘Encryption’ in safety debate is clarifying “We can’t release encryption until it is proven safe” “Encryption can protect privacy of good people, but it must not be allowed to protect criminals” “Creators of encryption must be liable for harms it causes”
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Louis Anslow
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People treat science fiction as a more reliable allegory for technological development than history fact. They sit, comfortably in the least dystopian time in human existence - watching Blackmirror on an iPad in bed - convinced it was just a fluke that technology got us here.
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Louis Anslow
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The Osama photo but taking out technological progress
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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Reminder: the last two fear induced technology slowdowns/moratoriums created more risk than they prevented...
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@alistair___s
Alistair Stewart Ⓥ ⏸️
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Proud to be part of the first ever protest calling for a global moratorium on the development of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4! See you at 5pm Monday for more of the same. #PauseAI
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Louis Anslow
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Group of women in Ukraine kneel in prayer 😢
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Louis Anslow
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A few months before @Twitter was founded: “young adults are accusing Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation of CENSORING THEIR POSTS and BLOCKING THEIR ACCESS TO RIVAL SITES.”
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Louis Anslow
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🧵 Robots have been about to take all the jobs for 100 years: 1920s
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Louis Anslow
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Replacing ‘encryption’ with ‘locks’ in safety debate is clarifying “We can’t release locks until they are proven safe” “Locks can protect security of good people, but it must not be allowed to empower kidnappers” “Creators of locks must be liable for harms they cause”
@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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Replacing ‘AI’ with ‘Encryption’ in safety debate is clarifying “We can’t release encryption until it is proven safe” “Encryption can protect privacy of good people, but it must not be allowed to protect criminals” “Creators of encryption must be liable for harms it causes”
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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This isn't 'a bit blackmirror.' It is anti-blackmirror: the robot is delivering sustenance in a hygienic way while we all cower in the face of a naturally occurring virus. Not only is this not techno-dystopia, technology is actively mitigating dystopia.
@jaketapper
Jake Tapper
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I assume for food delivery? Still a bit @blackmirror
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Louis Anslow
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AI doomerism is incoherent reactionary populism. No surprise then that it has been adopted by Tucker Carlson.
@PicoPaco17
Pico Paco
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Tucker Carlson: We have a moral obligation to strangle AI in its crib , bomb the data centers
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2019: “Billionaires will not save us. Fuck Big Pharma. Technology will cause mass unemployment!” 2020: Billionaires and big Pharma saved us. Technology prevented mass unemployment.
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What would Andy Warhol have thought about AI art? A 1986 interview he did about digital art offers a hint... (Analysis of the interview: )
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Louis Anslow
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@stephsmithio Slackademic
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Van Jones just now on CNN releases 4 years of fear and tension we have all felt. WOW.
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Louis Anslow
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“Kids these days don’t read, TikTok ruined their focus!” Kids these days: #booktok has 100 BILLION views and is reshaping best seller lists:
@bryancsk
Bryan
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Kinda wild that BookTok recommendations are at the front of the store and so explicitly marketed as such.
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Louis Anslow
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Fire. Promote.
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Me in @thedailybeast : AI Doomers Are Starting to Admit It: They’re Going Too Far “Nick Bostrom—father of modern debates about existential risk from artificial intelligence —is worrying he may have yelled “Terminator!” in a crowded theater, creating a neo-Luddite stampede that…
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Louis Anslow
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Ok - I am OBSESSED with AI generated stereograms. Cross your eyes until each image overlaps… then your eyes locks and it has 3D depth!
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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Building houses to deal with a housing shortage? Building Nuclear power to deal with carbon emissions? Ozempic to address obesity? E-cigarettes to reduce smoking? NO NO NO. You are misunderstanding. These micro problems are mere proxies for a macro problem: cApiTaLisM
@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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Problemists HATE solutions. Anyone that even hints at the prospect of solving a problem - rather than managing it - is written off as a delusional solutionist.
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Louis Anslow
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If you are right leaning libertarian you should be thanking @nandoodles : She’s cutting off oxygen to the most toxic players in right wing media ecosystem, without government coercion or violating the constitution. Which in turn is reducing chances and justification of latter.
@jordanbpeterson
Dr Jordan B Peterson
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If you want to understand the narcissism of compassion look no further than oh-so-cutesy @nandoodles
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@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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Apple's 1987 Vision for VR Mac had mini-floppy disks 😂
@LouisAnslow
Louis Anslow
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OMG. 1987 internal Apple video set in 1997 had VR 'Vista Mac' (Apple Vision Pro!) At very end then CEO John Sculley says "The APPLE VISION is stronger than ever!"
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Louis Anslow
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That isn’t very candid communication!
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Louis Anslow
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‘AI Doomers Are Starting to Admit They’re Going Too Far’ “Bostrom is right to worry. The risks of technological stagnation - despite what shows like Black Mirror imply – presents a real dystopian danger” - me in @thedailybeast
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