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"If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" is now out. Read it today if you want to see with fresh eyes what's truly there, before others try to prime your brain to see something else instead!
Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️
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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️
@ESYudkowsky
The original AI alignment person. Understanding the reasons it's difficult since 2003.
This is my serious low-volume account. Follow @allTheYud for the rest.
Joined June 2014
- Me: Can you draw a very normal image? ChatGPT: Here is a very normal image depicting a tranquil suburban street scene during the daytime. Me: Not bad, but can you go more normal than that? (cont.)
- It took humanity 80 years but we have finally invented computer security that can be bypassed with polite but firm insistence
- Someone used 50x leverage to buy $200M of BTC/ETH, a day before the govt announcement. In a higher-functioning civilization, this would have SEC prosecutors showing up. At someone's house. By rappelling out of helicopters.Jaw-dropping corruption in the US: Trump's billionaire crypto czar is heavily invested in a fund whose top 5 holdings are the 5 in the US government Crypto Strategic Reserve. Mere hours before Trump announced it, someone bought $200 million in Ethereum & Bitcoin on 50X LEVERAGE
- As you may know, I disagree with @elonmusk about some large issues--so worth highlighting that Community Notes seems to me like an incredible smashing home run of a feature. It works far better than I'd have predicted. IMO it justifies the entire Twitter purchase.
- This is the worst graph you could have led with. Fire your marketing team.Today we're releasing Claude Opus 4.1, an upgrade to Claude Opus 4 on agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.
- Pouring some cold water on the latest wave of AI hype: I could be wrong, but my guess is that we do *not* get AGI just by scaling ChatGPT, and that it takes *surprisingly* long from here. Parents conceiving today may have a fair chance of their child living to see kindergarten.
- I don't think people realize what a big deal it is that Stanford retrained a LLaMA model, into an instruction-following form, by **cheaply** fine-tuning it on inputs and outputs **from text-davinci-003**. It means: If you allow any sufficiently wide-ranging access to your AI
- The way to get good at sex is the same as the way to get good at any other process: Once you're done, roll out the whiteboard and together do a no-fault analysis of what went wrong, what went right, and what could've been done differently.
- latest generative AI disaster: my primary's 3yo daughter is a fan of Elsa and of Spiderman; I used Midjourney to create Spider-Elsa; now I'm told 3yo is demanding to watch the Spider-Elsa movie and doesn't believe her mom that no such movie exists
- This is what I'd expect to see if OpenAI had made general progress on fighting sycophancy and manipulation. :/ If that's in fact what happened, OpenAI made that choice rightly.the /r/chatgpt AMA is mostly people begging for gpt-4o back because of it's personality... really not what i expected!
- I am once again reminding you that AI researchers prior to the year 2015 would identify this as AGI.This model is a meme genius. Openai won
- Your annual reminder that you don't need to resolve your issues, you don't need to deal with your emotional baggage, you don't need to process your trauma, you don't need to confront your past, you don't need to figure yourself out, you can just go ahead and do the thing.
