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Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
@gcolbourn
AI Notkilleveryoneist: AGI/ASI dev must be stopped. PauseAI. Founder, Pause House; CEEALAR (EA Hotel). Ex-EA (left over EA's anti-Pause, pro-Anthropic stance).
Manchester, UK
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    Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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    Oct 13, 2025
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    Pause House, Blackpool
    Are you passionate about pushing for a global halt to AGI development? An international treaty banning superintelligent AI? Pausing AI? Before it’s too late to prevent human extinction? Would you like...
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    Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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    Mar 27, 2025
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    How We Might All Die in A Year
    Content warning: the title is serious; this could actually happen. Not for the faint-hearted, overly pessimistic, or politically passive. Ilya thought back again to when he’d overheard that...
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    Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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    Jan 22, 2025
    We're not going to make it, are we?
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    Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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    Jun 20, 2024
    Sutskever, Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, Musk - none of them trust each other to get safety right. What does that tell you?
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    Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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    May 10, 2023
    The simple case for urgent global ______tion of the AI industry and limits on compute and data access: 1. GPT-4 is already ~human-level at language. 2. Multimodal models - text & image & audio & video & VR/games & robotics manipulation by a single AI - will arrive very
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    Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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    Jun 21, 2024
    Replying to @ericneyman
    Is -4 "smaller" than 4 though? Kind of ambiguous. Their magnitude is the same.
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    Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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    Oct 12, 2023
    UK Petition: Seek a global moratorium on development of AI technology due to extinction risk petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6399…
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    Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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    Jun 21, 2024
    Replying to @ericneyman
    Did you even try it (with Claude 3.5 Sonnet)?
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    Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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    Feb 24, 2025
    Claude roadmap
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    Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀
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    Feb 24, 2025
    Claude roadmap just dropped 👀
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    Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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    Nov 28, 2024
    I feel like people are consistently underestimating what AGI actually means AGI means GAME OVER for all biological species AGI means AI can perform ANY intellectual task a human can (including making better AGI which can make better AGI and so on -> ASI) If ASI needs to
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    James Ivings
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    Nov 28, 2024
    I feel like people are consistently underestimating what AGI actually means AGI means GAME OVER for most apps AGI means AI can perform ANY intellectual task a human can If AGI needs to use your app for something then it can just build that app for itself
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    Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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    May 14, 2023
    If CERN was building a new particle accelerator and they calculated a 0.01% chance of it creating a black hole that would destroy the Earth, there's no way they would be going ahead. And no way they would be allowed to go ahead. 1/2
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    Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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    Oct 7, 2025
    tfw when you realise you're arguing with a P-zombie intent on creating a Paperclip Maximizer..
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    Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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    Feb 17, 2024
    Beff is >15 years behind Yud in his intellectual development
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    Greg ⏹️ Colbourn
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    Nov 27, 2024
    Donated $180k to PauseAI (US and Global). Calling on more people to donate significant amounts. Pretty much the only way we're going to survive the next 5-10 years is by such efforts being successful. There's no point being rich when the world ends.
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