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AI 2040 Plan A future essay

AI 2040: Plan A

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Ben Recht

“Come the fuck on. I'd be less annoyed if there wasn't a deep-pocketed, credulous audience for this idiocy.”

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Ben Recht: Come the fuck on. I'd be less annoyed if there wasn't a deep-pocketed, credulous audience for this idiocy.
Marco Z: at least cold war fiction had some charm /s this stuff is just excel porn, modeling nations and markets like rigid spheres in zero-g
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3 experts · 14 posts · 17h ago
Ben Recht Benjamin Riley Colin
Colin: It seems like there are a number of discoveries, like solutions to quasi-famous (but not too famous) open problems in math and 0day security vulnerabilities, that are low-hanging fruit in the sense…
Colin: I used to be skeptical of the billion-phds-in-a-data-center idea, and I still am, on the grounds that it’s not really a billion phds, it’s a billion identical copies of the same phd, who’s going to…
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2 experts · 6 posts · 5d ago
Ben Recht Julian Togelius
Ben Recht: Dean Ball: Open source software is communist and threatens to bring on a dystopian hellscape. Also, it's COVID.
Julian Togelius: I had to read this several times to make sure he was really saying what I thought he was saying. One could point to the various companies making a living off open source software, such as Red Hat o…
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