Ethan Marsh

Now, given our inability to stop AI from lying right now, when AI is comparatively simple, how much faith do you have in our ability to stop much more complex and advanced models from lying to us?

Not because there's no physical way to "pull the plug". There probably will be. But because, in practice, we won't be able to justify making the decision to pull the plug. At that point, our only hope for survival is that the AI never decides to lie to us about what's in our best interests.

Of course not. That's the future we're headed for, except replace "chess" with "everything". One day, AI will get so good that CEOs won't be able to justify to shareholders any decision that goes against the AI. And that is the point at which humans have effectively "lost control".

Why? Because when AI is good enough, it will be impossible for humans to "beat" its advice, in the same way it has become impossible to for humans to "beat" AI at chess. If millions of lives or billions of dollars hung in the balance, would you ever put your money in a human chess player vs AI?

The risk is not robots physically dominating us. The risk is humans turning their decision-making process over to AI.

It will start with humans just asking AI what it thinks about a situation. But when it's good enough, we'll find that we won't be able to go against the AI's recommendations.

Top US Army General Says He's Letting ChatGPT Make Military Decisions The lead US military commander in South Korea told reporters he's becoming really close with ChatGPT lately.

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So, this is alarming, not because "the military is using chatgpt" but because it's an example of high level decision-makers leaning on AI to help make decisions. People who struggle to understand how AI could ever dominate humanity need to pay attention to this.

So I deactivated my Twitter profile today and they said "Sorry to see you go #Goodbye".

Didn't Elon Musk say hashtags are ugly and people shouldn't use them anymore? #mixedmessages #incompetence #goodriddence

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"Attention is the new currency" is an idea I've heard before, but never fully internalized. I think it's time to internalize it.

HELLDIVERS 2: The Board Game by Steamforged Games - ATTENTION, HELLDIVERS! THE FIGHT FOR MANAGED DEMOCRACY COMES TO YOUR TABLETOP!

I really hope the design of this game encourages frequently getting your character killed. The death mechanic in most games feels more like "oh you suck that bad? Ok I guess here's a way to keep going". But reinforcing in HD2 is an epic and fun event so I'd want to see that in the board game.

So today Trump successfully forced Ukraine to give up on security guarantees, and the media doesn't seem to get it. Putin got his #1 demand met, in exchange for nothing. Somehow, the #11 economy is telling the #1 economy how things will go. This. Is. Not. Normal.

Saw Trump promoting Tesla today to try to rescue the stock price (it stopped the bleeding but that's about it).

Is the play to actually convert MAGA to liking electric cars after spending years demonizing them?

Forget corruption, is that even, like, a plausible strategy?

I legitimately forgot that I created a @bluesky account weeks ago. Amusing to come here and find 20 followers.

I'm officially deleting my twitter in a few days. Maybe making the switch will reinvigorate my interest in online discourse.

TBD.