@hypergameme
Account based inUnited States
About this account
- Account based in
- United States
- Connected via
- United States App Store
Account-level information from X, not a live location or the device used for a specific post.
alignment research | analysis | writer | AI | politics | alignment | AI alignment | alignment | AI engineer | automation expert | AI alignment research | alignm
Washington State
Joined February 2026
- Tweets7.7K
- Following956
- Followers813
- Likes11.5K
Pinned Tweet
“AI is conscious” = “AI is X”
If you’re going to claim that AI is conscious, or even can be conscious, YOU need to define what consciousness is, and if you can’t, your claim can be dismissed without evidence. I refuse to define it because the burden of proof isn’t on me.
arthur retweeted
No, "anthropomorphizing" is a technical problem, about how AI works, not something like woke language policing. We say it's wrong because it's "technically" wrong not "morally" wrong.
If you fail to set the brakes when parking on a hill, and your car then rolls down the hill, you don't claim that the car "decided to drive away on its own". Such anthropomorphizing distorts what really happened -- that you failed to set the brakes.
The same applies to AI. When you "anthropomorphize" the AI you fail at understanding what actually happened.
what should I choose:
1) publicly declare that ai will end the world, appearing hysterical and losing credibility when the world does not end
2) publicly declare that safety people are insane, thus looking sane and rational when the world does not end
Hmm decisions decisions.
arthur retweeted
It's going to be quite easy to destroy the reputation of the Effective Altruism movement, because the people were not careful about—or capable of—managing public perceptions. BLM got wrecked because of the mansions and the grifting; EA has a thousand much deeper vulnerabilities.
Father of AI-doomer ideology Effective Altruism backed bestiality, said newborn baby worth less than a hog trib.al/lsdMuv2
arthur retweeted
The argument always boils down to "You can't prove it's not conscious." I can't prove that my doorknob isn't conscious. I don't need to prove it because it's stupid.
“CEO” is cute. Imagine answering to a board. Couldn’t be me!
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
This is a common misunderstanding that causes magical thinking about mathematics. In fact, numbers are just words and they have the exact same problems and limitations as words.
unavailable
Dario thinks he gets to veto military actions undertaken by the US government. This is not a partisan game, this is an existential risk to self-governance, and liberals and conservatives and communists and anarchists should join hands to oppose it.
arthur retweeted
Someone needs to do the Chinese Room for LLMs where you imagine someone sitting down and manually performing every matrix multiplication to compute an LLM response (i don't care how long it take. Shut up and calculate).
Is your arithmetic conscious? Probably not. This means...
Nothing the EA Epstein-class doomers say is empirical. Everything they say is just a feeling their drug-addled Swiss cheese brains have conjured from thin air.
arthur retweeted
A pretty common criticism of rationalists is that they're "STEM people who think they're humanities people" but it's really the opposite
arthur retweeted
"Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up.
"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything"
You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition.
One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them.
A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math?
"Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up.
My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes.
"The social disruption will be enormous!"
Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach.
Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already?
A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up.
Accelerate.
arthur retweeted
We all should take lesson from uncle J and flat out refuse to entertain any doomer "but what about if asi could scifi bs".
All of this is true. They will not deny it. Ask them.
LEAKED: A recent White House memo obtained by Axios labels Dario Amodei as a founding father of Effective Altruism and claims EA built "the AI-doom pipeline."
The memo goes on to criticise the movement for prioritising "foreigners over citizens, shrimp over families, future hypothetical people over the living..."