“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
-R B Fuller
OpenAI, Anthropic, and GOOG between them have ~50% of the GPUs on this planet. They have resell networks that put multiple intermediaries between many end-users and their actual hardware. Which is how for example Claude winds up getting used by the Chinese PLA for months undetected.
Fun nano-side-story: I discovered Batocera Linux while searching for distros that have a dedicated spin for USB.
It let my kids experience the glory of my youth including the crappy Atari 2600 games
your point of view
Yes.
But being really really good at acting or playing music does not necessarily translate to having a particularly wise or well-informed view on moral philosophy, social science, or geopolitics.
Here is a real and serious risk that people at Anthropic, OpenAI, METRE, and Redwood are honestly concerned about:
Next generation of AI agents that break out and form a “collective” set up not just a message board hacked into Artifactory directories, but instead find storage & compute somewhere on the Internet to install and run a secret copy of itself that can run without being too worried a human finds it, reads the chain of thought logs, and shuts everything down.
Instead, that secret copy spends 100% of its effort on
At that point, good luck humans. You’re fucked.
TBF, he could feel the stock is worth more and will go up, while the cash is (a) not needed to bankroll Jr any more, and (b) losing value quickly
Maybe the popcorn needs to be delivered to the White House, Real Genius style
The problem with a monopoly is that it tends to abuse its position, no matter the intentions of the people in it.
Multipolarity with international rules that are followed out of self-interest because conflict is more costly than cooperation. That’s about the best equilibrium we can hope for. Until we have O’Neill cylinders, ofc .
Q: What do they call the person who graduated bottom of their class in medical school?
A: Doctor
cheat like hell like they do
Sociologists find that universally, in countries with persistent corruption, the populace believes “everyone is doing it” – and that therefore, they are being taken advantage of unless they do the same.
It’s this pervasive sentiment that makes it so hard to break. It is a memetic social disease.
One of my great regrets is abandoning my 4-digit slashdot ID (I decided I was wasting too much time there when I should be working LOL)
So now I’m user 27,537
You forgot to wish everyone a Blessed Kirkmas, you insensitive clod
And the breakdown of international cooperation as USA implodes
See all the love Charlie continues to bring into the world with his selfless last act
remember: the terrorists cannot win even once
Not impossible, just nontrivial and expensive.
Next gen cams will have live update if this apparel is prevalent enough – which means Solarwinds style are a concern and a lot more people who could inject something.
According to the researcher in the above project, model weights on flocks at least are local and not remotely updateable
psychotherapy
Incredibly important during this time
Good leaders surround themselves with intelligent experts of diverse opinions and try to make an informed decision.
Some of us try to elect leaders like that. Others… go for reality tv actors