[ExI] The case for how and why AI might kill us all

[Darin Sunley]

China have a serious problem with their LLMs for mass consumption - as it
seems to be a very difficult problem to RLHF an LLM into not referring to
Winnie the Pooh, or avoiding mentioning two numbers in the same sentence
that together form a dog-whistle for Tiananmen Square.

But they will /absolutely/ lean into it, and lean into it /hard/ where they
can get administrative, productivity, or military advantages with it.

And yeah, any concentration of chip fabs that can spit out GPUs just
became a strategic asset on par with uranium mines.

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 11:49 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Tara Maya via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] The case for how and why AI might kill us all
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> >…I'm just a humble historian…
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> No way Tara.  I am humbler than thou.  OK time for a match up.
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> >…All I can figure out is that these doomsayers are assuming AI will be
> pitted against humanity, whereas it seems far more likely to me that
> Humans-In-Group-A+AI will be pitted against Humans-in-Group-B without AI.
> In which case, yeah, it's obvious those with AI will win….
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> They sure will.  I got to see that firsthand with a series of lawsuits my
> parents were involved in regarding land use in Oregon.  They were being
> sued by neighbors to stop their building a house on 118 acres of farmland,
> which is too small to be farmed profitably without a house and equipment on
> the property (that’s just were we are in agriculture today.)
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> My mother really knows how to use the internet, and did.  The neighbors,
> even though they have cable up there, either didn’t know how or just
> didn’t.  The kept suing and bringing absurd cases which could easily be
> debunked with a few hours of due diligence, now about an hour with ChatGPT
> acting as one’s paralegal.  She won ever case, with at least two of them
> being dismissed with prejudice, and one of them resulting in those bring
> the case committing extortion.  She chose to not press charges.  The house
> was built.
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> This demonstrates the power of the internet and now ChatGPT in the hands
> of one party in a conflict but not the other.  Do let me assure you, China
> rejoiced when they saw Eliezer’s proposal as the lede story on American
> mainstream media.
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> >…I still see fear of technology as a greater danger than technology. Tara
> Maya
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> Ja, I agree.  This is not to say that fear of this technology is
> unjustifiable.  My contention is that there is no way to stop it.  We are
> not going to call in airstrikes on server farms.  China really is likely to
> invade Taiwan to control GPU production.
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