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Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD

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Eliezer Yudkowsky's institute published its "2024 Communication Strategy" The main goal (as he argued in TIME magazine) is to 🔻shut down🔻 AI development. So, let's take a look at their strategy 🧵

DrTechlash's tweet image. Eliezer Yudkowsky's institute published its "2024 Communication Strategy"

The main goal (as he argued in TIME magazine) is to 🔻shut down🔻 AI development.

So, let's take a look at their strategy
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Effective Altruists/AI Doomers saying the quiet parts out loud 🧵 #1 – "AI safety is too structurally power-seeking"

DrTechlash's tweet image. Effective Altruists/AI Doomers saying the quiet parts out loud

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#1 – "AI safety is too structurally power-seeking"

Yudkowsky & Soares: “it should not be legal— humanity probably cannot survive, if it goes on being legal— for people to continue publishing research into more efficient and powerful AI techniques” As I read @willknight’s newsletter, I thought: Good to see no one listens to them

With the US falling behind on open source models, one startup has a bold idea for democratizing AI: let anyone run reinforcement learning. wired.com/story/prime-in…



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In an era when sensationalism dominates our #AI discourse, we get this mind-blowing 🤯 exchange between Tristan Harris & Glenn Beck: 1/3

DrTechlash's tweet image. In an era when sensationalism dominates our #AI discourse, we get this mind-blowing 🤯 exchange between Tristan Harris & Glenn Beck:

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On the horrific morning of October 7, ten members of my family were in Kibbutz Be'eri for the holiday. Three were brutally murdered, and seven were kidnapped by Hamas, including an 8-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. Then, I found out Hamas terrorists used GoPro-style body…

DrTechlash's tweet image. On the horrific morning of October 7, ten members of my family were in Kibbutz Be'eri for the holiday. Three were brutally murdered, and seven were kidnapped by Hamas, including an 8-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl.

Then, I found out Hamas terrorists used GoPro-style body…

I asked to be Maddie Kim from Pantheon Sora 2 made... this


Steve Bannon's War Room became the Doomers' favorite place

DrTechlash's tweet image. Steve Bannon's War Room became the Doomers' favorite place

This Morning, Two British Tabloids:

DrTechlash's tweet image. This Morning, Two British Tabloids:

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Doomer predictions are based on fantasy AI systems that function nothing like how today's systems function. They have something like perfect continual learning and knowledge acquisition, internal state/world models, infinite/unbounded self improvement, the ability to manipulate…



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