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c/sneerclub · by swlabr@awful.systems · 299d

Wake up honey, new open letter asking to stop superintelligence research just dropped

https://superintelligence-statement.org/

Peep the signatories lol.

Edit: based on some of the messages left, I think many, if not most, of these signatories are just generally opposed to AI usage (good) rather than the basilisk of it all. But yeah, there’s some good names in this.

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saucerwizard@awful.systems · 7 pts · 299d (6 replies)

Woz??

swlabr@awful.systems · 5 pts · 299d (5 replies)

Hand in hand with Glenn Beck!

saucerwizard@awful.systems · 5 pts · 299d (4 replies)

And Kate Bush?!?!

BlueMonday1984@awful.systems · 6 pts · 299d (1 reply)

And an AI crank YouTuber!

Saledovil@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 294d

Is it just me, or do these superintelligence research people always assume superintelligences act like malicious genies?

swlabr@awful.systems · 4 pts · 299d (1 reply)

She’s way too far down the list imo. She should make a deal with Woz, and get him to swap their places

saucerwizard@awful.systems · 3 pts · 299d

Perhaps they could exchange the experience.

mii@awful.systems · 6 pts · 298d

And right about when the general public started to realize that LLMs are fucking shit at pretty much everything. How convenient ...

Also lol at putting Steve Bannon in the top 10 signatories. All right then.

lurker@awful.systems · 1 pts · 200d (2 replies)

I think many, if not most, of these signatories are just generally opposed to AI usage rather than the basilisk of it all

I must admit that I signed this statement (before I discovered SneerClub) and I was definitely against AI usage as a whole (still am) but I also still think superintelligence shouldn't be built, because if we're letting Sam Altman and Elon Musk dictate the "values" encoded into it I do not want to live in that world

swlabr@awful.systems · 3 pts · 195d (1 reply)

but I also still think superintelligence shouldn’t be built, because if we’re letting Sam Altman and Elon Musk dictate the “values” encoded into it I do not want to live in that world

Well, sure. FWIW most of us here are on one of two trains:

  1. "superintelligence" will never be built
  2. There is no clear path from where we are technologically that leads to "superintelligence," so there isn't much point to worrying about it.

Of course, there is something to be said about not wanting anyone throwing money at Musk or Altman because they've conned people into thinking we're on the cusp. But yeah, I would say most people here do not share this concern, just as no one should be concerned about a dragon razing their town.

lurker@awful.systems · 2 pts · 193d

FWIW im probably in/around camp two nowadays. I also do not think we should not give Altman and Musk money both because they’re conmen and weird alt-right techbros (I still remember Musk’s Nazi salute)