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Looks like a common knowledge moment happening. For over a decade people privately told me they agreed with me on superintelligence derangement syndrome, but surprisingly few were willing to be open about it. A switch has flipped.
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This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane. washingtonpost.com/technology/202
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Thinking a superintelligent AGI (artificial general intelligence) in the yudkowsky-bostrom sense will emerge and oppress/kill us all unless we solve a bullshit theology problem they call the “AI alignment” problem Angels on a pinhead. But weirdly and toxically influential in SV.
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The analogy with markets/weather systems/etc. is good except it seems to explicitly include rather than exclude a vast neural net, which is a complex but somewhat organized repeating pattern at a lower (I believe) but increasing scale (of information).
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