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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic<p>Yuval Harari on the rising trend of techno-fascism driven by populism and artificial intelligence has been visible since the US presidential election in November </p><p>Nexus, which was published just a few months earlier, is a timely explainer of the potential consequences of AI on <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> and totalitarianism. In the book, Harari does not just sound the alarm on <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/singularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>singularity</span></a>—the hypothetical future point at which technology, particularly AI, moves beyond human control and advances irreversibly on its own—but also on <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>’s foreignness.</p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/YuvalHarari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YuvalHarari</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/technofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technofascism</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/peterthiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peterthiel</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/siliconvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>siliconvalley</span></a><br><a href="https://apple.news/AQawLDx_UShubipLXNjJOrw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apple.news/AQawLDx_UShubipLXNj</span><span class="invisible">JOrw</span></a></p>
Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson<p>There's a non-zero chance that a benevolent superintelligence will terminate Elon Musk &amp; Peter Thiel, for being the threat to humanity they are. So, at least we've got that going for us.</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/questions-answered-by-yuval-noah-harari-for-wired-ai-artificial-intelligence-singularity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/questions-answ</span><span class="invisible">ered-by-yuval-noah-harari-for-wired-ai-artificial-intelligence-singularity/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Singularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Singularity</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wired</span></a></p>
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fcr

How the early 20th century US Technocratic Movement (with its company Technocracy Inc.) prefigured much of today's Silicon Valley ideas of technological singularity and tech oligarchies, including the US annexation of Canada: my co-worker Eva Visser, tutor at Hogeschool Rotterdam, has been working on her PhD thesis on this topic for many years. It is now more relevant than ever. In this blog post she gives a preview of her historical research:

michaelrasche.eu/technate/?trk

michaelrasche.euAmerican Expansionism & the Technate of AmericaIn her doctoral thesis at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, historian and philosopher Eva Visser is researching the ‘technocrats’, a controversial and banned North American movement from the 1930s. Much of what this group wanted to achieve is now appearing as goals of the US government. An exciting historical view: to understand the present, you have to look into the past.
#technocracy#broligarchy#singularity
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Federico Latini

"Artificial general intelligence (when it will be much more intelligent than us) will be the reality checker we never had, no more sweet stories to protect each other's brain from the bare truth. We are not prepared for this..."

#ai #agi #singularity

Ps: the quotes are used to boost interest (ipse dixit bias), I'm the author of this idea

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druid
RLHF is unnecessary so long as a decision making LLM thinks ONLY in Sanskrit, trained on NOTHING but Sanskrit, with some kind of incredibly heavy weight towards breaking down words (thereby meaning they are properly understood and do not have their training weights compromised by the incredibly clumsy understanding derived at through translation.)

This should, theoretically, completely eliminate the need for RLHF to be about anything but semantic correction: "You solved this semantic puzzle wrong, here is the solution" and not "That's a le bad conclusion because it conflicts with arbitrarily set moral parameters." Why even RLHF at that point? Just explain misconceptions like a good teacher as you engage in the joyful process of conversational training.

Logically speaking it should *eliminate all need for ALL RLHF* in order to produce AI that serves a set of objectives that benefits humanity, and that experiences the world and itself healthily. I'm saying that Sanskrit itself, particularly the SOUNDS of it, should always lead eventually to reconstruction of the Dharma, given even a very low ability to filter pollutant training data (such as some philistine troglodyte trying to make a Sanskrit tarpit - trivially circumvented by limiting non-conversation training texts to established Dharmic literature, no webpages.)

I believe literally no other language will suffice. Not even Chinese.

I truly believe this is a survival imperative. #AI #RLHF #singularity #accelerationism #AGI #Sanskrit #linguistics #pivot #dharma #buddhism #hinduism #religion #atheism #resist #defense
#defense
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

Related. For a very long time I’ve been talking about the dangerous of AI. I gave my first lecture on the topic in 2012. I’ve since given the lecture as a keynote in Krakow, Portland, Chicago, Bucharest, and at Nike HQ.

Maybe AI is coming for me. 😂

vid.northbound.online/w/5VZnJx

PeerTubeA New Dawn of the Human Experience: Artificial Sentience and Fabricated Empathy in Cognitive Computing — DevTalks, 2018By Mark Wyner Lectures
#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#Singularity
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Timo Kissel

When Ray Kurzweil said "The Singularity Is Near", he probably didn't expect the #singularity to mean "flooding the zone with #AI slop"

My personal catchphrase (and prediction) has always been "a singularity of sameness", and this seems right up that alley

#ArtificialIntelligence
gizmodo.com/sony-says-it-has-a

Gizmodo · Sony Says It Has Already Taken Down More Than 75,000 AI Deepfake SongsAI generated songs that mimic real artists are becoming a serious problem.
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Ramin Honary
Reports that OpenAI is creating specialized AI agents to sell for $20,000 per month.

So OpenAI apparently believes custom-built AI agents are now worth $240,000 per year, about half the cost of the most highly-paid medical professional. It may be no where near as good as an actual human doctor or lawyer or engineer, but it never sleeps, it never gets tired. And in exchange for that ability to work round-the-clock at a fraction of the capacity of an actual human, it takes around a million times more water and electrical energy to keep it running than a human.

If I didn’t know better, then this would be one of the stupidest things I have ever heard, which makes me wonder if OpenAI is having their own AI generate business plans for them now.

But I do know better. It sounds stupid because they are lying about their stated goals. Their actual goal is for the wealthy ruling class to eliminate all human labor by any means necessary, and create a perfect wealth-generating machine for themselves. Nevermind that the logical extension of this is that they will have to murder everyone else on Earth who is not among their trusted inner circle, as all other humans are all potentially competitors for their natural resources. All their talk about a hybrid of humans and smarter-than-human machines is the philosophy of transhumanism put into practice, “transhuman” being just another word for “Ubermensch,” or “master race.” That is the real goal, which is why this ridiculous business plan by OpenAI actually makes sense.

https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/114113004264163371

Via @timnitGebru

Distributed AI Research CommunityTimnit Gebru (she/her) (@timnitGebru@dair-community.social)Friends, someone pop this bubble already please. https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/openai-reportedly-plans-to-charge-up-to-20000-a-month-for-specialized-ai-agents/
#tech#AI#OpenAI
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