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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

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The authors said on Twitter that they aren't EA's, but they surveyed people at valley AI companies to write the report, so it's probably quite influenced by EAs.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

They aren’t EAs? At least one of them literally has a profile on LW, as pointed out in the other thread about this.

But maybe they consider themselves to fall somewhere else in the TESCREAL acronym. There’s six more letters to choose from, after all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The State Department? That unimpeachable organ of American governance?! Why, I don’t even know whether to trust them not to collude with shadowy corporations or not to be duped!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Am I getting old or are there way more acronyms to keep track of in the last like… month? What are EA’s?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Check the sidebar here for more info. Also fair warning, you may hate what you learn

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

@tkohldesac EA's are so-called 'Effective Altruists'

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Limiting AI in America will just make us less likely to compete with AI developed in the rest of the world.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

"Mr. President! We can't allow... a ChatGPT gap!"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not everything is about your toy train world geopolitical supremacy and there are people far too rich and powerful to give a shit about it who benefit from your believing that it is

Believe me, I’m not even American: it’s just you, me, and everyone getting the shaft on all five other continents as well

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What does that even mean, does AI have a nationality? And compete on what? Are we going to pit the USA AI against the French AI in a cage match?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

When AI is finding zero days and tearing down firewalls, do you want to have a limited number of graphics processors running our defense?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

dad what in the fuck are you talking about get off my computer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Obviously, it's easier to tear down firewalls with the extra fingers.

That's just common sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

"Mr. Nvidia, tear down that firewall!"

-- Ronald Reagan, probably