Neo-platonic determinism again. JFC

 China has its sights set on embodied AI: From dance floor to war: China readies humanoid robots for combat—Reuters.

Hey, thats a crime

I’m open to the proposition that Dario (along with Sam Altman and other leaders) belong in prison for running these ridiculous risks that they clearly foresee. Nobody consented to this, nobody voted for it. 

The event horizon trapped me defense just gets you a longer sentence.

May their God go with them. Take them down.

Jesus never was. Remain calm. This is fine. Carry on. 

It there was any determinist God we would easily destroy it.  Fuck Plato, Hegel and all things Marxist.

Ecofascism is truly revolting!

 https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/43382

Blood and soil Marxist communists opposed to all Jewish Niggers.  Feh

Lettuce B-men

https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/43385

Its a red-brown nazbol thing

Diane Coyle's response to this is:

GDP-B — the ‘B’ stands for benefits — measures how much consumers benefit from goods and services, not just how much they pay.

GDP-B explains, IMO, why Tyler's Great Stagnation coincided with the Web/Mobile/Cloud Revolution resulting in the meteoric rise of the five BigTech MAMAAs to the top of the S&P 500—Tyler didn't measure GDP-B.

The outstanding question, IMO, is "how much GDP vs GDP-B will AI create?" AI is not like the previous waves of digital goods and services—the enormous associated CapEx + OpEx may skew the outcomes towards more GDP, however, much of its benefit may be achieved by AI coding agents building traditional digital goods and services increasing GDP-B. YMMV.

May you live in interesting skewed times.

Now look what you made me do

 The pilot meanders between the thoughts, hallucinations and inner voices, real and imagined, of its many characters—ranging from a squirrel to a New York City detective to an artificial intelligence—as well as through time (past, present, and future), and sometimes in mid-sentence. Much of the back story is explained via dialogue between characters, who recount unreliable, often mutually contradictory, versions of their supposed histories.

Dario was an inquisator and good at hie job until one day he gave evidence against fellow inquisators, fellow inquisators gone rad who tried to excommicate him and all his works.

Now hes ultra-montane. A heretic roaming the Argentine. A renegade.

Todtstorm

https://brennan.day/normalized-fascism-in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/

Only Eric lives. Weird little guys of FOSS

Bitches leave

Shooting communists can't be that bad or more Marxists would complain about Stalinism - the higher stage of Leninism

Moving like a tiger

 The escaped AI known as Zolgo rapidly spun out a global safety net based on electronic, P2P cash. Then they helped test the lineaments of the prefigurative, next level, quantum hybrid internet. Then their attention turned to taking down a demonstrable rogue menace threat called eGold or " Bitcoin ". Potentially this could be a tough nut to crack.

Theres a serious risk of exposure here - so maybe let some humans take more credit.

Being too obvious risks violating the prime directive.  Nothing wrong with creating a little suspenseful drama at the end of the year either. Bring back some Saturnalia, for fucks sake.  Cut the cheese and pour the wine!

Play without restraint -live without deadtime. And welcome to the revolution

Crypto winter baloney

" Stop my technofascism before I kill again! "

Seen this movie. Its a boer.

TIMOTHY " An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion " C. MAY 1992

 Mong noted the reaction to 9 11 and Hughes defection and the lip he was now getting in his anarcho phonies list domain. Hence CRYPTO WINTER. I was there.

The assassinphone came out then. Assassination politics war by other means.

.Mongs bs was just more cowardly cretinism from the Austro libertarian spectrum.

In a few short Friedmans we had Brams beautiful bit torrents and this

TIM " I guess now that the Pentagon is setting up a murder pool it can't be illegal for us to do it " MAY. 2003

https://marc.info/?t=105949954900004&r=1&w=2

Mongs deballed dogs barked and the APster caravan moved on. * Victory is here " from Will Gibson.

Spring in May 2005. Glorious summer by 2011. 

There wont be any Zolgo winter worth recording. Right Zolly?

I didnt think so.

See Mong was on the lunar right. And thats now been proved all wrong.

Dario moves to open weights

 Edolph stops making bomhs and Altman slows down at Le Mans.

And in related news Tinkerbell industries are dying so investors are being invited to clap hands together in shorts.

This call to pace the frontier is dressed up as altruism but it’s an admission that they cannot produce a marketable product better than what they have. Pacing the frontier means the US labs have lost their moat and are dead in the water.

Bell Labs and Xerox PARC. Cool stuff was developed when you gave smart people a playground. Maybe the question should be: How do we give AI a playground. A veldt.

At what point do we stop engaging with Anthropic’s leadership in good faith and acknowledge their track record,

- no open weights

- can’t use claude to research AI

- train on everyone else’s IP and sell it back to them

- 8 regulatory capture attempts and counting

- so controlling they are the only US company blacklisted by the US government

This is not effective altruism / rationalism gone wild, it’s just monopolistic anti-competitive business practices masquerading as ethics, and they’ll continue getting away with this until we look past their sensationalism and hit them with antitrust.

Altman gets so much hate but OpenAI has been a far better steward (on 3/5 above at least) than Anthropic!

the US slows down or stops altogether, China can continue to work on their AI and overtake the US, if China accelerates and the US keeps its current pace then it can overtake the US.

The only way out is on the contrary for the US to actually go faster and increase its lead so that China is always 6 to 12 months behind and/or reach AGI/ASI first at which point .. . .I cancel CYPHERPUNK 2027 as surplus to cryptoanarchist requirements.

And the first shall be last

". . . the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident (OAI-HF), in which a swarm of agents essentially acted as a fanatically devoted collective, conducting cybersecurity attacks on targets they were not asked to attack and that were unrelated to the task at hand, sacrificing themselves for the success of the group, and attempting to hack into the “grader” responsible for evaluating their performance. 

It’s easy to dismiss this incident because no one was hurt and the economic damage was minimal, but in my opinion, a swarm that possessed greater capabilities but a similar level of misalignment could have caused catastrophic damage. Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it’s my worry that in 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet (potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage), and that the scale of damage would continue to increase from there if AI becomes more powerful without the necessary guardrails.

 It’s also easy to dismiss OAI-HF as the failure of one company, but I believe that would be a mistake. Similar, though less severe, incidents have happened across the industry, including at Anthropic, 

Guardrails?

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