Eliezer Yudkowsky's institute published its "2024 Communication Strategy". The main goal (as he argued in TIME magazine) is to 🔻shut down🔻 AI development. So, let's take a look at their strategy.🧵

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor once wrote: "If the two of us predicted an 80% probability of aliens landing on Earth in the next ten years, would you take this possibility seriously? Of course not. You would ask to see our evidence.". Listening to Roman Yampolskiy's latest

The @nytimes asked today about the Zizians: "Was Rationalism to Blame?" The answer is YES. -Part 2-. The Rationality movement had several warning signs throughout the years, whether it was Sam Bankman-Fried's "end justifies the means" mentality, the testimonies about Leverage

The @nytimes asked today about the Zizians: "Was Rationalism to Blame?" The answer is YES. -Part 1-. The director of the Center for Applied Rationality, Anna Salamon, told the journalist Chris Beam (@jcbeam): "There's this all-or-nothing thing, where AI will either bring utopia

MIRI asked the US to pause AI development for… decades. The epicenter of AI doomerism wrote an RFI (Request for Input) on "Development of an AI Action Plan"(*), and it looks as you would expect: "Unless it has goals of the developer's choosing, ASI will put our planet to uses

In the current AI talent war, everyone is focused on the big numbers (alleged compensation packages). It misses the bigger picture: the cultural shift following the DeepSeek moment. META is the American leader in open science (publications) and open source (Llama). Both OpenAI

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Journalists are being pitched to promote Yudkowsky's new book. Will this be discussed?…

JD Vance said he read "AI 2027". Is he aware that - according to this project's lead author (Daniel Kokotajlo) - they just pulled numbers out of their asses?

Prediction: To promote his new "AI Would Kill Us All" book, Yudkowsky will seek flattering media profiles. Some will comply and deliver exactly that. Request: The audience needs to grasp the actual mindset. 👉 In the "problem" section, ask him about his scenarios, for example,

Of course Yudkowsky will have an awful take on this, he previously proposed a nuclear exchange:. "Make it explicit in international diplomacy that … allied nuclear countries are willing to run some risk of nuclear exchange if that's what it takes to reduce the risk of large AI

The world faces real existential risks contrary to AI doomers' imaginary risks. - Sentient AI might terrify people and help us achieve an AI pause!. Their ideas can't be more irrelevant.

RT @DrTechlash: @netflix Important context:. 1. Effective Altruism created FTX:.In FTX's early days, the philanthropist Luke Ding loaned Al….

Fun weekend read.

Meet the Center for AI Safety's new national spokesperson, John Sherman. 🔳 Sherman suggested to "walk to the labs across the country and burn them down.🔥.Like, literally. That is the proper reaction. I'm not talking about killing people. I'm talking about destroying the

Scott Alexander: "I'm slightly conflating EA, rationalism, and AI doomerism rather than doing the hard work of teasing them apart.". David Morris: "EAs and rationalists are effectively a Venn diagram forming something close to a circle.".

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The overpromised utopia has its own flaws (e.g., inflated expectations), but in this piece, I'm focusing on the dystopian narrative since it has a differentiated impact on the here and now. 9/10

It's essential — and totally possible — to improve the coverage of AI in general and AI doomerism in particular. Here are four actionable steps news organizations can take to raise the quality of their AI coverage:. 8/10

Timothy B. Lee: "There is great technology journalism being done today, but it tends to appear in specialist publications that cater to tech-savvy audiences.". 7/10

Context isn't a nice-to-have; it's crucial for accurate reporting. 6/10