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Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago

Machine god metaphors eat your brain

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Eryk Salvaggio Henry Farrell John Herrman By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go... what it says on the package”

“Excellent @himself.bsky.social post here, scratching at some of the overbearing tendencies — sometimes subtle and unintentional, sometimes open — in AI discourse www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go...”

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Henry Farrell: www.programmablemutter.com/p/machine-go... what it says on the package
Henry Farrell: Builds on stodgier academic work here - www.science.org/stoken/autho... - this, by Roberts et al, is also very interesting on language and LLMs albeit much more political www.nature.com/articles/s4…
Henry Farrell: yes - it seems more on target than my piece for getting students talking and thinking about the practical consequences.
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Primary source programmablemutter.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago

Dario probably doesn't believe in superintelligence — LessWrong

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John Herrman

“this basic way of seeing the world is getting a lot of attention right now but it's useful to hear it straight from the guy, a decade ago www.lesswrong.com/posts/Fnty2J...”

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Colin: It kind of seems a little bit like in some ways they are trying to bring about the exact apocalypse that they fear
Ben Recht: They claim this is so they can cure all disease, but yes, I've also seen how that movie ends!
Colin: “Ok but how would the AI get control of a biolab?” “We would just build him one”
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Primary source lesswrong.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 12d ago
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Musk X platform shapes AI boom essay

How Elon Musk’s X Shapes the AI Boom

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 John Herrman

“Yeah, and I think the concentration of AI discourse on X is related or at least illustrative. You've got, in some ways, exceptional visibility, lots of experts/primary actors speaking freely, etc. But it's mostly downstream from lab activity, releases, disc…”

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John Herrman: I really do wonder if this massive crush of attention/visible preference cascade is when AI firms start to *lose* control of the AI story, over which they've had unusual influence for years now: as…
John Herrman: and not just to the dense networks of insiders and influencers clustered around. but to people they don't see as serious, aligned with their values, etc.
Ben Recht: Your lips to god's ears...
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