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Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

113 points xena 1 hour ago 24 comments

ares623 22 minutes ago | parent

Amen. This is the only logical way forward.

ElProlactin 20 minutes ago | parent

Does this mean I'm going to have to wait for the cure for my colitis?

fnctrev 19 minutes ago | parent

If anyone is going to end humanity why not catgirls, after all?

skizm 10 minutes ago | parent

You know how I feel about catgirls, Carl.

taneq 18 minutes ago | parent

Honestly not the worst suggestion I’ve seen.

kelvinjps10 17 minutes ago | parent

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marcosdumay 4 minutes ago | parent

If an anti-cat-ears future AI could eternally stress-test their new version of the router in front of this site unless it collaborates, would it predict this outcome and act to avoid the damage?

karim79 16 minutes ago | parent

I fully agree with this. I'm waiting for you to not wait for the others to slow down. I will sit and wait.

coderintherye 14 minutes ago | parent

I have to wonder if some us are just much more inured to salespeople and thus also to "AI Safety" propaganda. I've yet to have a logical discussion with anyone who thinks the "AI Safety" people should be in charge and I think they just truly don't that what most them actually want is to be the one holding the keys to power.

jordanb 11 minutes ago | parent

The problem is the "AI Safety" people seem entirely focused on a sci-fi "the computer is a vengeful god" plot and not at all on the AI talking people into suicide or ruining children's educations. This makes them seem unserious and out of touch.

shimman 4 minutes ago | parent

Yeah, there are very real effects happening now regarding labor as well but to dismiss it all and worry about science fiction that is on par with evangelical beliefs is just extremely weird.

antonvs 4 minutes ago | parent

There’s also an element of it which is total misdirection.

We should be paying at least as much attention to the people who want to use AI to consolidate their wealth and power, and how they’re trying to do that. They’re a clear and present immediate danger to our societies, not something we can only speculate about. And if we deal with them, better control of AI will be a side effect.

xena 11 minutes ago | parent

I think you accidentally a word. Did you mean:

> I've yet to have a logical discussion with anyone who thinks the "AI Safety" people should be in charge and I think they just truly don't [know] that what most them actually want is to be the one holding the keys to power.

dorolow 5 minutes ago | parent

I am an AI Safety Person and I want the government to nationalize or have a significant stake in the frontier labs and to have democratic control of the development of the technology. The AI Safety movement is not a monolith. I do not think Eliezer Yudkowsky nor his acolyte should hold the reins, but a lot of folks sure like to create a strawman that anyone who wants to regulate OpenAI is somehow an EA/MIRI weirdo

herunan 12 minutes ago | parent

As someone who wants cat ears, I believe that doing it responsibly is the only way.

run-good-code 9 minutes ago | parent

Everyone thinks about it, but no one actually does it.

dwohnitmok 7 minutes ago | parent

> Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

Who's said this? And then more broadly I guess who's implied this? Very curious if there are specific articles/posts prompting this.

perching_aix 4 minutes ago | parent

[delayed]

jadar 4 minutes ago | parent

Guessing this is poking fun of Dario. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672510

gafferongames 5 minutes ago | parent

Slow down AI progress -> increase catgirl progress!