So many people seem upset about their creations being used to train AI models. That's their right, but I have a different view. I'm honored that my mind has been useful to others. I've written a lot over the years. I always hope other people find my work valuable in some way. Why is this any different when the work is helpful by improving the weights of a LLM? By surfacing my thoughts and creative impulses, I've altered an intelligence in a small but hopefully helpful direction. This intelligence will benefit millions of other minds seeking its assistance. If this makes other people money, that's because someone found it valuable enough to pay for it. The fact that I'm not reaping any monetary rewards for this doesn't bother me for two reasons: 1) my overall contribution is so small it's incredibly difficult to even quantify, which is true for the vast majority of humanity (but not everyone) 2) information at rest isn't producing value - I think it's perfectly reasonable for the companies who put in the work of making that publicly available information more useful to everyone by building these incredible models to reap the rewards of their efforts I expect we'll soon live in a world where AGI guides many decisions, likely for the better, and I'm glad I've helped in a small way to get us there.

Imagine believing AI-assisted decompilation will crash the global economy (?), then deciding that the best course of action is to set up a camera to ensure your anxiety is infectious

AI is way more capable than normies realize and way less capable than doomers theorize

A good experience with Dots today: I was in the middle of a couple tasks in different threads in Codex at the end of my day so I set up Dots on my machine before I left. On my commute home I started a voice chat on my phone with my Dot. It was surprisingly easy to keep the work going over voice. It actually felt like being on a call with a competent coworker sitting in front of my laptop who understood the work I was doing and knew how to make progress.

This is wrong, humans aren't obsolete. Managing and directing this intelligence is still essential & difficult work. Yes the models are incredibly capable but knowing how to apply them within an organization is far from solved. There are many opportunities, we've only started.

The real AI psychosis: seeing everyone with inexpensive, friendly genius assistants at their command and claiming not only is this bad, it will destroy humanity

1000 times yes AI should spark gratitude and excitement Fear is the mindkiller

What year will it become embarrassing to have publicly professed a nontrivial p(doom)?

My wife, after hearing me express confusion about Trump being so AI-positive despite terrible polling, casually drops, "It's because he needs America to build it first. He thinks it's another space race." Surprised I haven't seen that analogy before, seems to fit.

It's crazy to me that fear is people's first reaction to news like this instead of excitement. Humanity has so many problems to solve. We need all the help we can get. Solving difficult math problems is awesome and should be celebrated.

Is this misalignment or is this the best possible alignment?

If my timeline is any indication, yes, he did Lots of bitter GPU-clingers out there