definitely on the "we're cooked" side of the spectrum

LLMs proved the universe of all coded solutions is not that different from the universe of all chess solutions. It's just about computing power. AI will become smarter than the best of us in a way that we will never win.

Thanks for the link! I will read the article. Definitely an interesting topic... Hopefully it’s not fear porn that offers centralization in the form of regulation as the solution.

I am more concerned about "ai safety" narratives legitimating cybernetic control of society by proxy. "We have to control the AI because it's SO POWERFUL." And so they get to control society by proxy by controlling AI. This is climate change. This is covid. This is quantum. This is kids on the Int...

The most provocative part of the Dario essay is not the AI capabilities prediction — it is the implicit assumption about who controls the deployment. Every scenario he outlines assumes a small number of labs making decisions about what gets released and when. That is the real structural question....