Gabriel
@Gabe_cc
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CTO at Conjecture, Advisor at ControlAI. Open to DMs!
Joined October 2019
For deontology's sake, and just in case it's not obvious what my beliefs are. We are on the path to human extinction from superintelligence. At our current pace, it's very likely that we hit a point of no return by 2027. It is plausible that we hit one sooner.
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Many go, "Elon, why do you do this?". It doesn't matter. It's still a distraction. The world is not about Elon. Our problem is our failure to do ourselves what's good. Despite having much better tech and science than the Enlightenment thinkers ever did.
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Both the leftist and the libertarian make no sense to me here. Companies often pay a fair share to their employees and survive. Companies also often underpay their employees. I think of such conversations as about "The World of Words" and not the real world.
If your company isn’t paying you what your labor is worth, it would be in the interest of a competing company to pay you more. Think of it this way: If someone is auctioning off a $10 bill and the highest bid is $8, wouldn’t you offer more?.
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On one hand, researchers see ASI as a very interesting problem, and companies can make a lot of money from it. On the other hand, people do not want human replacement, experts have warned of extinction risks, and the tech is moving much faster than our ability to manage it.
1/N I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO).
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Virality for its own sake is another name for wasting people's time at scale. There's no promise that people are going to be better informed, more connected to others, or have more fun. Virality is just presented as its own quality.
Working on a new way to make creative viral videos fast called …. ✨ Imagine ✨.
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RT @Noahpinion: There are probably some guys in tech who spent the 2000s and 2010s screaming "HAHAHA DIE LEGACY MEDIA DIEEEE", and who are….
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RT @Gabe_cc: On the Clearer Thinking podcast, Spencer Greenberg and I had an interesting discussion about AGI, what good institutions shoul….
podcast.clearerthinking.org
Home | Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg — the podcast about ideas that matter
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People now spend most of their free time and attention on the Internet. Giving free-reign to Big Tech there has caused the decline of many load-bearing institutions beyond journalism. This itself has caused the rise of many bad ideologies beyond woke.
In retrospect one of the things that allowed wokeness to become so powerful, at its peak, was the decline of journalism as an industry. The kind of people who undertook its institutional capture in 2010 mostly couldn't have gotten hired in 1980.
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On the Clearer Thinking podcast, Spencer Greenberg and I had an interesting discussion about AGI, what good institutions should look like, and under what conditions (if any) the flow of information should be restricted. Hope you'll give it a listen!
podcast.clearerthinking.org
Home | Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg — the podcast about ideas that matter
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RT @NPCollapse: The recent Anthropic blackmailing paper has gotten quite some attention. This is a nicely put together video explaining th….
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In the last few days Anthropic have released an impressive honest account of how all models blackmail, no matter what goal they have, and despite prompt warn...
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Ideologies are limited. They focus on a narrow set of values ("Social Justice", "Freedom", "Order") and declare them supremes. These limitations conflict with reality, and how people react to them is very informative. Link a reply to a full essay about this.
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The Media is the collective eye. It is what we focus our attention on. Ignoring the Media is ignoring what we pay attention to. Coincidentally, Social Media has shattered it into a hundred independent shards.
There's something weird about the fact that things like "reign in robo-calling" or "get rid of pitbulls" or "rationalize the federal holiday system" are actually all basically nonexistent from politics. There's so much quality of life stuff that just isn't in the discourse.
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Very nice self-experiment. Would love to read more of them.
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RT @ESYudkowsky: It's easier to push downhill than uphill. Which is why fools who are desperate for a feeling of relevance, of importance,….
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If there is little time to solve a problem, then I want solutions that take little time. If I have a budget to solve a problem, then I want solutions that fit the budget. Wealth feels good. Budgets feel bad. Scarcity might even lead people to bad things. It is what it is.
I’m concerned that the AI safety community’s focus on short timelines is causing it to operate in a counterproductive scarcity mindset. I’d prefer a portfolio approach where individuals focus on more or less urgent scenarios in proportion to how emotionally resilient they are.
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RT @S_OhEigeartaigh: I'm very grateful to everyone in touch re my paper on the US-China 'AGI race' narrative. Some really exciting conversa….
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