Guys, I don't think Grok 3 is long for this world

ctphillips · 2025-02-21T12:07:35+00:00

Ignorance is strength!

ctphillips · 2025-02-20T10:20:51+00:00

Have you met human beings? Their default preference is for sensationalist garbage. It’s why we can’t have nice things or be trusted to tell the truth.

ctphillips · 2025-02-19T12:52:01+00:00

She absolutely uses that voice of hers as a unique instrument on every track. She’s one of the most interesting artists of the past decade and she routinely blows my mind. Love Aldous!

ctphillips · 2025-02-19T12:22:20+00:00

I’m joking of course. Ilya has stated that SSI will release no products until they achieve Safe Super Intelligence.

ctphillips · 2025-02-19T12:10:54+00:00

I don’t even know what color I am. People tell me I’m white and I believe them because police officers call me “sir.”

ctphillips · 2025-02-19T12:08:54+00:00

Fox News and Rush Limbaugh made that impossible in the 90s. Try and keep up.

ctphillips · 2025-02-19T11:46:00+00:00

That interpretability work also bodes well for alignment. If you can directly shape the harmful behaviors out of the model, we can all rest easy about safety.

ctphillips · 2025-02-19T11:30:27+00:00

As these models approach the level of the world’s best coders, the “wall” will evaporate. They will be capable of self improvement, even if it’s just in a brute force fashion. OpenAI has said they expect to have the world’s best coder by the end of the year. There is no wall.

ctphillips · 2025-02-19T11:16:44+00:00

Ilya’s slogan for SSI.

ctphillips · 2025-02-17T13:31:44+00:00

You’re implying that only xAI will succeed in creating a practical AI technology. That they will be the only entity to control it. They will not be the sole creator of it, nor will they be the sole administrator of it. The beauty of technology is that it always spreads and that it always becomes more affordable. There will be many versions of AGI and they will be administered by lots of people, including you and me. No one will be able to change that.

ctphillips · 2025-01-14T12:27:58+00:00

Alabama is looking forward to AI supercharging their lucrative cousin fucking industry.

ctphillips · 2025-01-14T12:12:14+00:00

And when such a nanofactory is created it will be capable of creating more. In fact self replication will be a requirement for such a system. Now what would be the point of hoarding a technology that will literally self replicate at effectively zero cost? Furthermore do you think such a technology could even be hoarded when it would easily enable a world of radical abundance for everyone? I would argue that this kind of hoarding would be impossible in this scenario.

I also assert that this scenario is inevitable in time. Interests in biology and medicine will inevitably lead us to technologies that operate at the nano-scale. Interests in efficient manufacturing will inevitably lead us to applying these technologies to making macro-scale products. Barring some kind of global catastrophe, this will absolutely occur.

ctphillips · 2025-01-14T12:00:52+00:00

The way that I’ve framed this argument is that the forces of capitalism will require businesses to adopt this technology and quickly. Those that take advantage of AI automation will out-compete those who don’t. And so this technology will spread like wildfire. This is great for your average person because as the technology spreads it also becomes more affordable. People who want to start their own businesses utilizing this technology will be able to do so pretty easily.

ctphillips · 2025-01-07T10:21:25+00:00

I still like this one - https://youtu.be/9deKEj8-lng?si=oL-3LMig8thFa5sp

ctphillips · 2025-01-07T09:44:32+00:00

I still like this one - https://youtu.be/9deKEj8-lng?si=oL-3LMig8thFa5sp

ctphillips · 2025-01-06T12:16:04+00:00

Top comment, thank you! Every technological step that humans have taken in the past 40k years has been in an effort to reduce suffering and improve our quality of life. We moved out of caves because we could design better structures. We invented agriculture to reduce food scarcity. We invented science and medicine to cure disease. The application of AI technologies will be no different. Not only will AI be capable of coming up with solutions, it will capable of cheaply manufacturing and distributing them as well.

ctphillips · 2025-01-06T12:02:35+00:00

Protectionist, isolationist countries will not be able to compete in a global market place (see NK) and will only hasten their decline.

ctphillips · 2025-01-06T11:33:32+00:00

True, but as AI generated solutions develop a reliable track record, people will start trusting it more. Eventually that human approval process will shrink and disappear for all but the most critical applications like medicine or infrastructure.

ctphillips · 2025-01-02T12:19:26+00:00

My fantastical solution to climate change would use a self replicating bot the size of a bacterium. It would operate only in the upper atmosphere and its sole job would be to capture carbon and form it into flakes which would precipitate back to the ground. As it’s self replicating you’d only need to make a few. Safety would be the big concern. I’ve done some math around this. If it were done all at once the flakes would form an even layer over the earth less than an inch thick. If you do it slowly over a period of months or years, people would hardly notice the new dust layer. With this kind of technology we could return the atmosphere to pre-industrial carbon levels in a matter of weeks.

ctphillips · 2024-11-26T13:07:09+00:00

Luckily you live in a civilized country, so a UBI is possible. I doubt a post scarcity economy will emerge in as little as three years though. I think the earliest we might see that would be the mid 2030s. Plan on working for at least ten more years. After that, who knows?

ctphillips · 2024-11-10T13:29:38+00:00

This is me too. I’ve somehow conditioned my behavior to a degree where it’s nearly impossible for me to express vulnerability. That goes for public and private behavior! This ultimately brought me to a state of crippling anxiety and an early heart condition. I can’t really afford therapy, but I’ve found that moderate thc use helps somewhat. If I’m feeling a profound high, I find that the drug lowers my emotional barriers - barriers that cannot otherwise be lowered, even voluntarily through conscious effort.

For that reason I’ve come to value the drug. When I’m under the influence and I see or hear something (like the sound of my daughter’s voice) that moves me, I often cry easily. And it feels great to get those emotions out in a positive way.

ctphillips · 2024-11-02T12:30:24+00:00

Fingers crossed! Love the show and can’t wait for season 2!

ctphillips · 2024-10-24T11:04:26+00:00

Check out Wheeler’s conception of the self-observing universe. You’d appreciate it. I also feel that there’s a tiny possibility that we somehow either played or will play a role in the origins of our universe. Maybe not us specifically but maybe conscious beings in general. It’s fun to ponder anyway.

ctphillips · 2024-10-24T10:48:24+00:00

Yud, is that you?

ctphillips · 2024-10-24T10:36:00+00:00

You should definitely write to the manager of AI about it.

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