Russia used an AI powered drone to kill civilians

It didn’t kill them because it attacked them, it killed them because it crashed into a wall and exploded.

Russian operators reportedly programmed the drone to fly toward a gas station, where its onboard system selected a target, most likely propane tanks. Before reaching them, however, the drone crashed into a wall and exploded, killing all three civilians.

Somehow this is worthy of a Terminator comment

every single fictional killer robot is way cooler than real life by a country mile

on slubstack: MIT publishes a paper that proves LLM scaling has a hard ceiling contains a 7 minute video

AI models do not have any of the capabilities needed for recursive-self improvement

Anthropic should be completely embarrassed of themselves

There’s also this Jaden Williams skit

I’ve genuinely never seen anything as cringe as ‘Malfoid’. it’s basically just riding the coattails of the much better Petra Parker trend except with incel language

Had someone tell me that they could use the method they use to make these games to make superintelligence, despite the fact that trying this with AI models would be wildly different than doing it with games, and also trying to combine every single AI model into one with this would absolutely obliterate your computer

Daniel Kokotajlo also recently posted his Senate testimony

nyc is having a hearing on AI risks today

I mean it’s probably all of them

I originally believed Yeshua was a misspelling of Yoshua-as in Yoshua Bengio, but no he actually wrote out a fake conversation with Jesus where he compares himself to Jesus. holy shit

We haven’t as I mentioned solar and wind have overtaken gas generation, 2.3 trillion was invested into energy transition in 2025

Not to mention that if we didn’t give up on global warming, that would have slowed down AI development, giving more time to prevent AI doomsday.

Well we haven’t given up on global warming since we still devote trillions of dollars into climate change solutions plus the rapidly growing clean energy transition that’s overtaken gas in power generation. But I understand the main point-which is that AI and climate change are linked problems, so ignoring climate change to focus on AI is kinda impossible since data centres are a big warming contributor

…so we’re admitting its an apocalyptic cult? awesome. so glad these guys dominate the AI industry

also, ‘compassion for everyone’??? several rationalists promote mass deportation because of ‘ethnic purity’ you yourself support Richard Lyn!!!

also also, ‘consort with prostitutes’?, Scott do you know how many sexual assault/abuse allegations your fellow rationalists have?

“Many other catastrophic panics in the past have been just fearmongering,” he added.

Heyyy, he’s self aware!

“I agree with president Trump’s tweet that global warming doomsday scenarios were overplayed,” he told Fox’s Sean Hannity. “It’s a very slow process. We’re talking about doomsdays — completely absurd.”

”The reason this is unique is AI is moving so incredibly quickly, we won’t have time to respond to it before it’s too late.”

The speed of the event doesn’t disqualify its seriousness? Climate change is still a very big deal even if it’s moving slower than the awakening of the Robot God. Also, AI developing “incredibly quickly” is still mostly bullshit because we STILL haven’t gotten anything the big tech companies promised

Gotta say, the climate change denier/AI doomer combo never ceases to baffle me. Though the climate change denial is actually the most pedestrian thing here. what the fuck do you mean ‘the entire discipline of ‘geography’ is made-up’

Eliezer is so above tropes he has an entire page of tropes dedicated to him

If he’s talking about addiction than that defeats his point even harder

“now you have to pay us $20/month or fall behind” trap is real

I’m baffled by this too. If I was Yud I would prefer to fall behind than to give money to the people I wholly believe will end the world so they can keep developing the things that I believe will end the world.

Because AI is not a linear system where slightly less input results in slightly less damage

So I’m assuming this means “well less people using AI doesn’t mean less damage overall done”, which is dumb because AI has very well documented effects of damaging the individual who uses it: just look at all the AI psychosis and suicide cases.

and because I personally think it wise to learn and understand the frontiers in whatever ways I most easily find energy to invest there.

you could do this without using the AI by looking at papers and stuff but most AI papers are riddled with hype so that might be difficult

The thing about the “yet you participate in society, curious!” meme is that you don’t really get the option to not participate in society. you do however get the option to not participate in AI, and there are plenty of people happily taking that option