A written out transcript on Scott Aaronson's blog: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7431

::: spoiler My takes:

ELIEZER: What strategy can a like 70 IQ honest person come up with and invent themselves by which they will outwit and defeat a 130 IQ sociopath?

Physically attack them. That might seem like a non-sequitur, but what I'm getting at is that Yudowski seems to underestimate how powerful and unpredictable meatspace can be over the short-to-medium term. I really don't think you could conquer the world over wifi either, unless maybe you can break encryption.

SCOTT: Look, I can imagine a world where we only got one try, and if we failed, then it destroys all life on Earth. And so, let me agree to the conditional statement that if we are in that world, then I think that we’re screwed.

Also agreed, with the caveat that there's wide differences between failure scenarios, although we're probably getting a random one at this rate.

ELIEZER: I mean, it’s n

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1nAJErpDYgRxL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yQEA18C-XI

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2811405

"We view this moment of hype around generative AI as dangerous. There is a pack mentality in rushing to invest in these tools, while overlooking the fact that they threaten workers and impact consumers by creating lesser quality products and allowing more erroneous outputs. For example, earlier this year America’s National Eating Disorders Association fired helpline workers and attempted to replace them with a chatbot. The bot was then shut down after its responses actively encouraged disordered eating behaviors. "

https://www.lexisnexis.com/html/lexisnexis-generative-ai-story/

Generative AI and the Law: AI is here already – with the power to change the legal profession Author: Suzanne McGee Word count: 2209 words Estimated read time: 9 minutes Source code repos: None provided Supporting links:

• Generative AI & The Legal Profession Survey, LexisNexis 2023: https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/about-us/media/press-release.page?id=1667497591151179 ↗
• Mike Walsh, CEO, LexisNexis Legal & Professional: https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/about-us/our-people/leadership/mike-walsh.page ↗
• Greg Lambert, Chief Knowledge Services Officer, Jackson Walker LLP: https://www.jw.com/people/greg-lambert ↗
• Danielle Benecke, Founder & Global Head, Baker McKenzie Machine Learning: https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/people/b/benecke-danielle ↗
• Ashley Armstrong, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, University of Connecticut: https://www.law.uconn.edu/faculty/full-time-faculty/ashley-b-armstrong ↗
• Jamie Buckley, Chi

I have no real evidence, or even an idea about who would fund that, but I've seen a couple BBC articles now where just Meta is pitted against everyone else as if it's an equal match, which is a pretty familiar phenomenon from climate and public health issues.