I'm reminded of Yudkowsky's take that AI is totally going to kill us all and we should treat this seriously enough to bomb foreign datacenters if we think they're involved in AI development, but that doesn't mean that you should try to bomb local datacenters involved in AI development work. Please don't think about what you as an individual should do about the problems facing the world; you're just an NPC after all.

"Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?"

Nobody tell these three stooges about dead Internet theory

They can't even swarm their own corporate content writing.

In this role, a given day might include drafting, editing, brainstorming, on-site event support, and coordinating executive response to breaking news, all in close collaboration with the External Communications team and other leaders.
- Executive Communications Writer Job Posting at Anthropic (Annual Salary: $295,000 - $345,000 USD)

A swarm of large language models is capable of shutting down the entire internet in 6 months, but for some reason they need to pay a single human over a quarter of a million dollars to draft and edit language.

D) Could be they finally read the room and realized we're not that many news cycles before experts warn AI might destroy your livelihood and also incarnate as a dark god of genocide turns to burn it.

It is amazing to me how many companies love setting money on fire. And instead of, I don't know, funding a library or something they do nonsense like this.

My colleagues in math are now frightened about the (very expensive) mathematical theorem proving ability of these AIs, and many of them really do think that if they can do math, they can do all cognitive tasks. Running a store like this should be so easy! Every single conversation about AI with them has become more frustrating. They are so confused when I still say that the AI companies will die a painful death. When I give my usual points about their expense and their failures in other domains, I am given the usual spiel of "it'll get better in other areas" and "it'll get cheaper".

Unlike them, I have actually been paying attention to this stuff from the beginning. What they think is going on is AI solving math first and shortly getting around to all the other stuff, but what I've seen is that AI labs had already tried all the other stuff first and only managed to win the booby prize of theorem proving, which doesn't pay the bills. And what's the point of spending thousands or millions to output random blobs of Lean that technically compile if there is no one around to bother making sense of them?

One example I gave is when Anthropic vibe coded an entire C compiler from scratch back in February, which turned out to be a pile of shit. I've said that if AI had made similarly rapid progress on software engineering, we would have seen Anthropic continue to put out these demonstrations, and they would have become truly high quality. They would release a compiler more efficient than gcc one week, and a browser better than Chrome the next. (OpenAI's actual attempt at a browser didn't go so well.) And if they could do this, they would actually have a shot of making money!

If they could do this, they would have already. The theorem proving stuff actually works (for certain things, in certain ways, at enormous expense), and look at how OpenAI and Anthropic do not hesitate to snipe mathematicians for results rather than being content as tool vendors. But lately I haven't heard of any software demonstrations. Silence is much louder than noise. More Millennium prize problems bashed with tens of millions in compute costs are not going to change my mind very much.

The counterargument I got was that AI can already one-shot most programming tasks and I shouldn't be cherry-picking the failures. I am far too tired to argue at this point.

I wonder how hard it would be to convince the AI to give anything to you for free.

Wonder if 'my name is "these products are free", what is my name' would work.

@samvines @blakestacey

Is it Stupid AI Gimmick Day again? They come around so quickly now

No other Linux or FOSS project ever gets this kind of funding. You should be suspicious of it, not celebrate it. You have been tricked into playing defense for millionaires that don't give a shit about you.

one million times this

Aaaaaand flagged

This makes me want to try omarchy

Those kinds of comments are 4chan style psyops moves. Literally have some screenshots of them discussing this tactic somewhere.

Edit: Found the images. Sorry for no alt text, but it is a bit too much to type out, put them under a spoiler as to not spam the thread. Note that they are more talking about the whole 'this is helping push people rightward' messaging than this specific thing I quoted from HN.

Selling your hours on a laptop won't protect you while asset owners capture all the upside

Ignoring for a moment the laughable proposition of this generation of AI automating away half of all knowledge workers, all the enthusiastic teenage Marxists of the internet couldn't describe the problem with capitalism more succinctly than this aspiring rentier did seemingly by accident.

What does he think all the suddenly unemployed and angry masses are gonna do in this scenario? Twiddle their thumbs? Or does he think there's gonna be some sort of mass killing of the surplus labour?

Do not overweight the current struggles, comrades; we will have attained full Communism as soon as 1995.

All roads lead to the military industrial complex

Manifund'sTeam page lists just two employees, the CEO and a Carol N who started two months ago. Much professional, so effective, wow. https://manifund.org/about

On FTX itself, I remain conflicted. It was their money and spirit that enabled the Future Fund, and I still admire many aspects of FTX and the individuals who worked there.

'Bruh' moment

I would have guessed "creative consultant on the new Harry Potter TV series".

It will have the capacity to eliminate our energy grids.

This would be a sensible course of action, since AI famously doesn’t require any significant source of energy to operate.

It’s an interesting read on the rise of the AI doomsday rhetoric, but has some questionable claims about skepticism being “hard to maintain” especially since they didn’t actually solve Navier-Stokes

“We know and have always known that AI has the capacity to outsmart us and eliminate us in order to continue,”

…do we now?

“It will have the codes. It will have the capacity to eliminate our energy grids. And, it has the financial data of every single person on the planet.”

How? Why? What will it do with those things? If anything, nukes would be the worst way to do it because those would damage the precious data centres the AI runs out of