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You have to use the right tool for the job, most languages, even if they are general purpose are designed for solving specific classes of problems, for example Go is the language you should choose if you happen to have 100000 C++ developers pushing code continuously to a monorepo for over a decade.

If your lawyer says <I could argue that>, that means that it's a shit argument and you should get something better.

If a superintellgent/transformative AI is built, you will not know about it until it's too late.

ChatGPT won't <wake up>. If anything wakes up it will be a preliminary beta model undergoing training.

You will not have heard about the seed that sprouts the singularity.

A lot of the flaws of AI alignment come out of the fact that the discussion was started by people who thought this plan was a good idea in the first place.

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Early singularitarians had a three step plan:

1. Create an AI God
2. Give it power over everything
3. Tell it to create Heaven on Earth.

A lot of AI alignment come out of realizing this plan doesn't work.

gotta update the selection-on-observables meme for class today

Waiting for EA to decide that the best charity intervention is to build a nonprofit hospital in a poorly served area, these completing their transition to becoming a Catholic charity.

In 2018, Scientists worked on a Minimal Turing Test: a single word that would convince someone you were human. Evaluators figured "Love" was the best choice, but not by much.

sciencedirect.com/science/arti!

Today, we know what word will distinguish between Human and AI.

Starting a business to pay myself a nice salary from Venture Capital money while I work on a failed project and my team is eventually acquihired by a BigCo is just working for a BigCo with extra steps.

@futurebird So the crappy kinds of search results we see today? That's what success looks like for Google, meeting the needs of People of the Phone.

Have those suggesting transformative AI is imminent started a hedge fund to pay for the retirement of those who didn't save for retirement because they expected the world to end?

_Jesus Revolution_

25% Boomer nostalgia, 25% Ministerial, 50% Historical docudrama, they somehow manage to mostly dodge being a Christian film, despite being a film about people coming to Christianity.

Conversion is still unfilmable, but the historical story holds up.

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What movie should I watch tonight?

Marlowe or Jesus Revolution?

Consider an AI that generates hot anime girls, but over time swaps in more catgirls, then more detailed catgirls until it has groomed the user into a furry.

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