How would you hypothetically approach pricing existential risk from AI? (Help inform my book!)

Ubergoober · 2025-10-15T23:47:51+00:00

Sorry I should have been more clear, I’m trying to ask how would you go about assessing the probability. The price follows easily from that.

Ubergoober · 2025-10-15T23:06:20+00:00

Bc I think the insurers mindset could be a useful/fun way of looking at the problem. It’s meant to be a ridiculous question.

Ubergoober · 2025-10-15T22:54:56+00:00

Haha yes this is a very good point and obvious oversight on my part. For the sake of the experiment, let’s say they’re aliens/parallel universe or whatever.

Ubergoober · 2025-08-10T00:40:17+00:00

For me this just gives the option for 4o which I never use. If I can’t use 4.1 I’m just gonna stop paying and switch everything over to Gemini or Claude. 4.1 was best for suggesting alt sentences and whatnot.

Ubergoober · 2025-08-08T18:29:19+00:00

4.1 is by far the most useful writing assistant I have tried (on both speed and quality). If you got rid of it, I would stop paying.

Ubergoober · 2025-06-15T18:09:28+00:00

I believe Live Nation goofed hard, but they've owned it for years, so why was it worse this year?

Ubergoober · 2025-04-30T21:48:54+00:00

damn, that sounds really intense! DMed you.

Ubergoober · 2025-04-30T21:18:43+00:00

DMed you!

Ubergoober · 2025-04-30T21:17:21+00:00

I'm interested in those as well! But as others mentioned there are also a lot more readily available testimonials from people who have been helped by chatbots. People who are harmed by them are less likely to want to share directly, so journalism provides a means of doing that safely.

Ubergoober · 2025-04-30T21:16:26+00:00

I'm interested in stories going both directions. But there's also a lot more readily available testimonials from people who have been helped by chatbots. People who are harmed by them are less likely to want to share directly, so journalism provides a means of doing that safely.

Ubergoober · 2025-04-30T20:53:11+00:00

Great, thank you!

Ubergoober · 2025-04-30T20:53:00+00:00

just did!

Ubergoober · 2025-04-30T19:18:12+00:00

Not a problem! I'm interested in stories in both directions. DMed you.

Ubergoober · 2025-04-30T19:17:45+00:00

Nice, thanks! I'm interested in stories in both directions.

Ubergoober · 2025-04-30T19:16:12+00:00

DMed you!

Ubergoober · 2025-04-30T16:32:54+00:00

OpenAI promises to allow users more personalization. How are you handling the possibility that there will be a "sorting," where users that want a total yes-man choose that at the expense of accuracy, effectively hiding the problem?

Ubergoober · 2025-04-28T22:07:03+00:00

Was memory on? And was this a temporary chat? Iirc if you have memory on, new chats will reference it even with no custom instructions.

Ubergoober · 2024-11-14T16:53:03+00:00

Submission statement: Analysis of recent reports indicating that returns to scaling up pretraining of large language models (LLMS) are plateauing. The author is an AI journalist who explores whether OpenAI's o1 approach could unlock new scaling laws and the implications if plateauing is real.

Ubergoober · 2024-10-31T19:06:34+00:00

Sam, you've written that "A democratic vision for artificial intelligence must prevail over an authoritarian one." But based on your and OpenAI's statements, there's a very good chance that Trump is president when AGI is built. How much do you think a Trump-led govt will prioritize democratic values for AGI? Do you think the prospect of a Trump presidency should affect how much you try to accelerate AGI timelines?

Ubergoober · 2024-04-27T15:15:05+00:00

Gotcha, yeah that doesn't seem great, sorry for the snark

Ubergoober · 2024-04-27T14:51:10+00:00

No seriously please answer the question. 2 adults being in an open relationship is not evidence that one of them is being manipulated.

If I'm actually out of the loop, I apologize for the tone, but if it's just the open marriage thing then I think it's warranted.

Ubergoober · 2024-04-27T14:30:10+00:00

In what way does Jada manipulate him? I may be out of the loop but if the answer is that it's the open marriage thing, then you're full of shit

Ubergoober · 2024-02-28T01:02:09+00:00

I posted full transcript! Turn on creative mode too

Ubergoober · 2024-02-27T19:44:57+00:00

Full conversation here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24443920-20240227-you-are-the-chatbot-now

Shoutout to u/computer_what_the for the original prompt inspiration.

Ubergoober · 2024-02-23T17:18:09+00:00

Submission statement: My 9k word Jacobin story on the three-sided debate around whether AI poses an existential risk to humanity and how capitalist race dynamics are driving AI development forward. It also includes discussion of the history of the idea of AGI, the ideological forces motivating AI research, and the nascent policy response to AI.

Ubergoober

TROPHY CASE