…but here is a “demo” that it’s possible for people to do experiments that threaten the whole world, despite a long track record of direct evidence that this exact thing is a threat to the whole world, wildly out of proportion to its benefit, and that governments may even fund them. 8/16 - ThreadSky

stevebyrnes.bsky.social • 73 days ago

…but here is a “demo” that it’s possible for people to do experiments that threaten the whole world, despite a long track record of direct evidence that this exact thing is a threat to the whole world, wildly out of proportion to its benefit, and that governments may even fund them. 8/16

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stevebyrnes.bsky.social•73 days ago

Here is a “demo” that, given a tradeoff between AI transparency (English-language chain-of-thought) and AI capability (inscrutable chain-of-thought but the results are better), many people will choose the latter, and pat themselves on the back for a job well done. https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769 9/16

stevebyrnes.bsky.social•73 days ago

Every week we get more “demos” that, if next-token prediction is insufficient to make powerful autonomous AGIs that can accomplish long-term goals via out-of-the-box strategies, then people will keep searching for other approaches that CAN do that. 10/16

stevebyrnes.bsky.social•73 days ago

Here is a “demo” that it’s possible for companies to ignore or suppress obvious future problems when they would interfere with immediate profits. 11/16

stevebyrnes.bsky.social•73 days ago

Here is a “demo” that it’s possible for there to be a global catastrophe causing millions of deaths and trillions of dollars of damage, and then immediately afterwards everyone goes back to not even taking trivial measures to prevent similar or worse catastrophes from recurring. 12/16

stevebyrnes.bsky.social•73 days ago

Here is a “demo” that the arrival of a new kind of highly competent agent with the capacity to invent technology, coordinate at scale, self-reproduce, etc., is a big friggin’ deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_environment 13/16

stevebyrnes.bsky.social•73 days ago

And here is a “demo” that it’s possible for a small number of such highly competent agents to maneuver their way into dictatorial control over a much much larger population of humans. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ivpKSjM4D6FbqF4pZ/cortes-pizarro-and-afonso-as-precedents-for-takeover 14/16

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