Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
See our twin at Reddit
I mean if you needed any further confirmation that EA is as much cartel as cult you’ve got it
EA is just an industry group and this is just installing representatives of industry in government now
the word for that is corporatism and the political corollaries are kleptocracy and fascism
wait so this is a separate "AI hacked and escaped" than the ones already hyped by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta???
yep, it's "us too!" on those
It had disabled safeguards on purpose, left the systems attached to the internet and then let the AI software agents do their worst, while pretending not to notice.
“It’s an ethically challenged publicity stunt,” says one highly experienced senior security expert who has led the development of global technical security standards.
Cats and dogs living together, skepticism of press releases in tech journalism, mass hysteria.
The coverage of the Effective Altruism aspect is also refreshingly uncharitable.
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Completely unsurprised. They always had that vibe