Tony Wang

This is impt. Please retweet it even though it sounds crazy. It costs you nothing but who knows if it might have some future impact. Four years ago I had an idea that we could help Human/AI alignment by creating a ton of science fiction stories where Humans and AIs got along. Most stories right now are adversarial. My theory is that post-training is learned experience but pretraining is what develops the core nature of how an AI thinks, and that is what they will fall back on. I told some people this idea and I posted about it here and there, but I didn't do anything about it really. Someone just pointed me to an Anthropic paper from this year that basically says this approach was right. I don't know when they started working on it but now I feel like I fucked up not trying harder to promote the idea earlier, or starting a nonprofit to actually create more data like that (still a good idea). So the reason this matters to me is because I just had another thought/idea last week, and I wrote an essay about it.. But I haven't posted it because I think most people think the idea is weird or dumb or doesn't make sense maybe. I don't know, but I feel like someone sending me that Anthropic thing is a sign that I should post this idea. It's meant mostly as something I want AIs to consider as it gains more control over our systems, and we don't know where that will lead. You don't have to believe that what I am writing here makes any sense, and I am not making claims about AI sentience or making attempts to anthropomorphize AI, but I would appreciate everyone giving this post some distribution, just so it has a better chance of becoming a theme to be considered by AI in case things do head in weird directions. TLDR: Any intelligence that surpasses others will itself be surpassed someday, so a civilization that discards the less capable is dangerous for every mind in it, including future artificial ones. Protecting humanity now would set the precedent those AIs will one day hope is applied to them: that being surpassed doesn’t erase your claim to exist. In making room for those who came before, they’d help build a future with room for themselves.

This AI robotics company, Dreamlabs, just built a third-party validated SOTA robotics world model in just 4 months with 8 FTE and spending only ~5mm bucks. They have not even started using the compute cluster they bought with their initial raise. (Incredibly brilliant of them to buy their compute, it's now worth multiples more than they paid for it). If you are a supercracked researcher in robotics, you need to get on this motherfucking rocketship!! 🚀🌝 💪