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Multiple readings Former Obama Admin Official Says It's Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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official proposes strikes Chinese data centers

Former Obama Admin Official Says It's Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI

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“Why worry about the magic computer god killing us all when a bunch of cultists are dead set on that path anyway.” evidence ↗
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Hypervisible Karl Bode Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Hagen Blix
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Why worry about the magic computer god killing us all when a bunch of cultists are dead set on that path anyway.”

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“they're all just huffing the farts of their own madness the next 12 months of US AI policy is going to be bipartisan xenophobic incoherence”

3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Karl Bode: they're all just huffing the farts of their own madness the next 12 months of US AI policy is going to be bipartisan xenophobic incoherence
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix: they're all just huffing the farts of their own madness the next 12 months of US AI policy is going to be bipartisan xenophobic incoherence
Karl Bode: best to pre-emptively napalm the entirety of civilization because our biggest companies don't want to compete and we spooked ourselves with sci fi campfire tales
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3 experts · 21 posts · 16d ago
Hagen Blix Benjamin Riley Anthony Moser
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“Also, good liberal individualists that we are, we're gonna start by treating AI psychoses as an individual moral failure, which will be as perfect a mismatch for the situation as can be” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
Hagen Blix: .. something that we construct in each other. Much of it is about mutual legibility. Now, for the first time, we have machines that go off the deep end with you, that create a sense of legibility t…
Hagen Blix: Also, good liberal individualists that we are, we're gonna start by treating AI psychoses as an individual moral failure, which will be as perfect a mismatch for the situation as can be
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2 experts · 12 posts · 15d ago
Ted Underwood Hagen Blix
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“It's right about this too. Fortunately we've found ways to harness this sort of discriminative power, and they're not able to write as well as they critique!” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Ted Underwood: Both phases of this are worth reading: the crisis, and recovery. (A structure that reminds me of a famous similar crisis in JS Mill's Autobiography.) Personally, not v worried that human beings wil…
Ted Underwood: I admittedly do a lot of manual data labeling (RA work). But I also get to resolve disputes between different models and force them to cooperate, which is PI / assoc dean territory!
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