old (My Anger at the blades of Moloch) new (my hope and trepidation for the future)
in february i'd written this: We aren't doing enough. We are not on track. We have too many people scared of petty things, trying to cover their own asses. We have benchmarks to measure capability progress and know we're less than 5 years from an AI that will mean the end of all human power on Earth, forever. And we still have less than $1 trillion invested in solutions to make sure the AI will have values we actually share. Or even that we'll have any real say over those values at all. The two most powerful men in the world right now (Altman and Musk, sorry rest of humanity) are grabbing power in ways few understand. One full on in building the lightcone seizer, the other seriously trying to take over the world in a way we haven't seen for a few decades. While, of course, using the words of 'safety' in AI in a way that has nothing to do with the actual meaning. Two grand deception machines, willing to do anything for control of the lightcone, even putting...