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6 experts · 25 posts · 7h ago
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“Any competent IT professional: Hey boss, what is this 8TB file doing on our server, and why is it executing continuously on 3TB of VRAM? Any competent IT manager: what ever it is, shut it down.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Mark Riedl: Do openAI and Anthropic employees not understand how computers work.
Mark Riedl: Any competent IT professional: Hey boss, what is this 8TB file doing on our server, and why is it executing continuously on 3TB of VRAM? Any competent IT manager: what ever it is, shut it down.
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5 experts · 41 posts · 16h ago
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“What does “AI” as a risk mean? Is that a dumb question? I just don’t understand what AI risk means independent of a specific extinction mechanism.” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Concern & critique · 4 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: perspective. i’m not sure if i agree or disagree. but he’s thought about it, so..
jake: yeah, and @david-p-reichert.bsky.social thinks about it more than I do, professionally, so probably listen to him more than I (I do still wish The Professionals published lists of various guestimat…
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5 experts · 33 posts · 7h ago
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“I do think that this article is a good representation of some typical thinking in this world. How exactly will AI kill us all? Well, maybe a virus, or some sort of hacking spree. Maybe something el…” evidence ↗
Colin: There are indeed thousands of LessWrong posts, as well as papers and books, which make a particular theoretical case for why AI will kill us all that many people find convincing. I'm going to try t…
Colin: First of all, we must just agree off the bat that a superintelligent AI will be able to kill us all. After all it is superintelligent. As this random dude who became famous 3 days ago because of a …
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4 experts · 28 posts · 3h ago
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“if doom not friend, why is doom friend-shaped?” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
jake: People making fun of "where would a frontier model run if it were exfiltrated" seem to be missing the point that if a frontier model got out, it can: * rent 64 H200's on eg modal: gets you 9TB of n…
jake: it then rents out spare capacity, via the margins inference gets you, pretending to be some open-weight model, and gets to use the rest to think about how to increase p(doom) or whatever I don't se…
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4 experts · 17 posts · 5h ago
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“but they don't. they're not. that's the problem. but maybe with agentic coding, they'll hire fast learners who just pick it up on the job? that could definitely happen. they'd probably pay a lot le…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Opportunity & adoption · 2
Doll: Faster software building means more software that wasnt worth it to build before becomes worth it to build now
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: It will be funny if the industry streamlines itself inside and outside big corporations, with smaller teams contributing more, but sales and marketing go extreme because that's the part the bots ca…
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3 experts · 16 posts · 8h ago
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“It’s almost like there are durable distribution advantages or something. Or maybe software that serves millions of users is more complex than a weekend project?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 2 Questions & unknowns · 1
austin: some thoughts - there’s a fucking cambrian explosion of software but it’s invisible because it’s personal. github isn’t getting hugged every other week for nothin’
austin: - the software you see on your phone and in the world is the product of organizations, and organizations move s l o w l y. developers are significantly more productive but it doesn’t matter if that…
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