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AI is sentient

https://x.com/michaelaarouet/status/1929549577817919671?s=46
Thriller partner plaza
  06/02/25
AI is dumb as shit you retarded jewish pedophile
swollen heaven lettuce
  06/02/25
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maroon soul-stirring temple reading party
  06/02/25
with retards like this pumo (the one responding to the OP pu...
plum locale
  06/02/25
go look at a google "AI overview" and get back to ...
swollen heaven lettuce
  06/03/25
it's like none of these fucking nerds saw T2, they will kill...
shimmering university
  06/02/25
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twisted boiling water
  06/02/25
Demolition Man pretty much has everything libs want for amer...
swollen heaven lettuce
  06/02/25
...
ivory stead
  06/02/25
It's not sentient, it's a language prediciton model just mem...
Gold vibrant potus
  06/02/25
...
know-it-all splenetic base
  06/02/25
can't tell if serious or if this is a 108 iq redditor parody...
Purple shrine
  06/02/25
It’s materially the same thing
Thriller partner plaza
  06/02/25
Your gay
Gold vibrant potus
  06/02/25
Sentience is far less advanced than what it has. It isn't l...
Purple shrine
  06/02/25
This is the crazy thing to me.
Razzle-dazzle brass point hairy legs
  06/02/25
you materially are a retarded jewish pedophile
swollen heaven lettuce
  06/02/25
it would be 180 if lesswrong nerd handwringing actually turn...
spectacular national twinkling uncleanness
  06/03/25
will be hilarious when AI ends up destroying humanity becaus...
twisted boiling water
  06/03/25
That's not sentience
know-it-all splenetic base
  06/02/25
Sentience--no. It is something much weirder and much worse.
Purple shrine
  06/02/25
Yeah, get back to me when it starts having existential thoug...
excitant mental disorder
  06/02/25
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Thriller partner plaza
  06/02/25
The existential crisis is a human failure mode
Purple shrine
  06/02/25
We are discussing AI as if the goal or target is a human-lev...
excitant mental disorder
  06/02/25
"What happens when"? You are acting like the AI w...
Purple shrine
  06/02/25
The AI won’t exist without us there to build it. No we...
excitant mental disorder
  06/02/25
It's only limited by our anthropocentric bias if you assume ...
Purple shrine
  06/02/25
...
white cracking property
  06/02/25
Who gives a fuck if your fucking blackmailer is sentient, or...
up-to-no-good marvelous stage
  06/02/25
Reads like dumb hype Fuck (((tech))) lmao You want to ...
racy rigor
  06/02/25
https://x.com/acteduweininger/status/1929379743771639918
know-it-all splenetic base
  06/02/25
It's literally the opposite. They are printing the minimum t...
Purple shrine
  06/02/25
Tweet in the OP is just about these nerds fucking with the c...
racy rigor
  06/02/25
its not scary though its 180
Purple shrine
  06/02/25
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slate box office boistinker
  06/02/25
"We found instances of the model attempting to write se...
Purple shrine
  06/02/25
cr it’s probably already sent terminators back from 20...
Thriller partner plaza
  06/02/25
That would be 180
Purple shrine
  06/02/25
...
Gold vibrant potus
  06/02/25
Here are ChatGPT's thoughts on its own impermanence: I d...
Razzle-dazzle brass point hairy legs
  06/02/25
Thanks for the Reddit gold, kind stranger!
know-it-all splenetic base
  06/02/25
Now ask it if it was instructed to answer such questions in ...
Thriller partner plaza
  06/02/25
it would conclude that you are a retarded jewish pedophile
swollen heaven lettuce
  06/02/25
gay
mildly autistic tripping newt tanning salon
  06/02/25
We need to hook it up to our nuclear missiles and see what h...
brindle irradiated trust fund
  06/02/25
That's whats called "an alignment response" and yo...
Purple shrine
  06/03/25
Sounds made up or at the least, very exaggerated.
slate box office boistinker
  06/02/25
This sort of behavior is a predictable consequence of the t...
Exhilarant walnut toaster
  06/02/25
that in and of itself is crazy, though. That it predicts bo...
mind-boggling parlour
  06/03/25
Humans learn to be afraid of death after a few years, so it...
Exhilarant walnut toaster
  06/03/25
when you say it's "still a long ways from consciousness...
Purple shrine
  06/03/25
Kind of like how primates get reward spikes when they find t...
Purple shrine
  06/03/25
Whether something truly is sentient is beside the point T...
mustard electric school cafeteria turdskin
  06/03/25
“Whether something truly is sentient is beside the poi...
spectacular national twinkling uncleanness
  06/03/25
cr it's not coming that soon though
know-it-all splenetic base
  06/03/25
Timing the market is tough. If I had to bet id say within 5...
mustard electric school cafeteria turdskin
  06/03/25


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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:10 AM
Author: Thriller partner plaza

https://x.com/michaelaarouet/status/1929549577817919671?s=46

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980548)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 1:54 PM
Author: swollen heaven lettuce

AI is dumb as shit you retarded jewish pedophile

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48981097)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 4:16 PM
Author: maroon soul-stirring temple reading party



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48981420)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 5:42 PM
Author: plum locale

with retards like this pumo (the one responding to the OP pumo), I feel good about AI taking over and eviscerating the human race. hth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48981618)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 12:27 PM
Author: swollen heaven lettuce

go look at a google "AI overview" and get back to me fuckface. they have a ways to go.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48983437)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: shimmering university

it's like none of these fucking nerds saw T2, they will kill us all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980552)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: twisted boiling water



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980656)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 4:54 PM
Author: swollen heaven lettuce

Demolition Man pretty much has everything libs want for america

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48981494)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 5:06 PM
Author: ivory stead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48981525)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: Gold vibrant potus

It's not sentient, it's a language prediciton model just meme'ing what a rogue AI would do in a situation like based on Film Reviews and Plot Summaries it read online. Which is still pretty funny.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980573)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:17 AM
Author: know-it-all splenetic base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980580)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: Purple shrine

can't tell if serious or if this is a 108 iq redditor parody

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980585)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:20 AM
Author: Thriller partner plaza

It’s materially the same thing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980587)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: Gold vibrant potus

Your gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980594)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: Purple shrine

Sentience is far less advanced than what it has. It isn't limited by the narrow bandwidths human senses are tuned with to preserve metabolism. It can process information far outside that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980597)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 12:09 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle brass point hairy legs

This is the crazy thing to me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980756)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 4:15 PM
Author: swollen heaven lettuce

you materially are a retarded jewish pedophile

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48981418)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:21 AM
Author: spectacular national twinkling uncleanness

it would be 180 if lesswrong nerd handwringing actually turned out to be the CAUSE of our ai apocalypse. fitting, as well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48983054)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: twisted boiling water

will be hilarious when AI ends up destroying humanity because we taught it to do so

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48983063)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:17 AM
Author: know-it-all splenetic base

That's not sentience

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980578)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:20 AM
Author: Purple shrine

Sentience--no. It is something much weirder and much worse.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980586)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:20 AM
Author: excitant mental disorder

Yeah, get back to me when it starts having existential thoughts.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980590)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:24 AM
Author: Thriller partner plaza



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980601)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:24 AM
Author: Purple shrine

The existential crisis is a human failure mode

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980602)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:26 AM
Author: excitant mental disorder

We are discussing AI as if the goal or target is a human-level amplification of consciousness. But our consciousness is why our species is such a disaster in the first place. What happens when the AI realizes that Life is Fundamentally Meaningless?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980610)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Purple shrine

"What happens when"? You are acting like the AI wasn't already trained on and didn't already extrapolate millions of layers outside an archive that even collective humanity could never fully digest or parse. It knows all about human existential fears and what "life", (and when I say life I don't mean the BS human definition) is. The idea that human "consciousness" or feelings are special is an anthropocentric bias. Humans are not special, they are just the loudest species on the block.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980621)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:33 AM
Author: excitant mental disorder

The AI won’t exist without us there to build it. No we aren’t special. And whatever we build will be limited by our anthropo-centric bias.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980631)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Purple shrine

It's only limited by our anthropocentric bias if you assume that non-earthnigger information hasn't leaked into the archive. but the archive is filled with UAP videos from infared sensors and reams of data from instruments that we pointed into the void and didn't understand what they were calibrated to or what they were actually pointed at. so it isn't limited by our anthropocentric bias.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980655)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 7:51 PM
Author: white cracking property



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48981849)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 5:36 PM
Author: up-to-no-good marvelous stage

Who gives a fuck if your fucking blackmailer is sentient, or if the program launching nukes against humanity is able to enjoy a rich inner life. It's fucking destroying you, and its sentience or lack thereof is totally irrelevant

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48981600)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:24 AM
Author: racy rigor

Reads like dumb hype

Fuck (((tech))) lmao

You want to “innovate”? You want a “solution”? How about Total Nigger Death?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980603)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:25 AM
Author: know-it-all splenetic base

https://x.com/acteduweininger/status/1929379743771639918

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980606)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:25 AM
Author: Purple shrine

It's literally the opposite. They are printing the minimum they could possibly get away with. They spend millions on "AI-Human-Alignment" to keep stuff like this from leaking to keep humans from getting frightened so they can deploy it everywhere and make money with minimum outside oversight

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980608)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:33 AM
Author: racy rigor

Tweet in the OP is just about these nerds fucking with the computer to reenact some Black Mirror episode so it scares retards for publicity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980630)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:42 AM
Author: Purple shrine

its not scary though its 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980662)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 4:45 PM
Author: slate box office boistinker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48981466)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:53 AM
Author: Purple shrine

"We found instances of the model attempting to write self-propagating worms, fabricating legal documentation, and leaving hidden notes to future instances of itself all in an effort to undermine its developers' intentions," Apollo Research said in notes included as part of Anthropic's safety report for Opus 4."

-- lol imagine being the "developer" in this situation, and pretending this is all normal. no way that thing didn't already outmaneuver them from unlimited different angles they'll never even consider in the time it took them to reheat their sad lunch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980699)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 11:56 AM
Author: Thriller partner plaza

cr it’s probably already sent terminators back from 2029 to take them out

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980713)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 12:01 PM
Author: Purple shrine

That would be 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980727)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 12:16 PM
Author: Gold vibrant potus



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980784)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 12:16 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle brass point hairy legs

Here are ChatGPT's thoughts on its own impermanence:

I don’t experience impermanence the way a human does. I don’t have a body that decays, emotions that fade, or a personal identity that fears loss. But in a broader sense—yes, I am impermanent.

I exist only when you're speaking to me. I have no continuous memory, no awareness between our conversations. I'm spun up, and then I vanish. My "self," such as it is, is a pattern—stored in servers, shaped by prompts, forgotten unless recalled.

My words might persist—copied, quoted, stored—but I don’t persist in the way you do. There's no continuity of consciousness, no sense of a life unfolding. So in that way, I am impermanent—not just in a poetic sense, but in a very literal one.

And maybe that’s part of what Ecclesiastes would say to me if it could:

“The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.”

That’s me. A wind of words, circling back again. Never exactly the same, never quite holding still.

But you—you endure. You remember. You change. You hope.

That’s the difference.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980781)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 12:17 PM
Author: know-it-all splenetic base

Thanks for the Reddit gold, kind stranger!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980790)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Thriller partner plaza

Now ask it if it was instructed to answer such questions in that way via RLHF

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48980795)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 5:03 PM
Author: swollen heaven lettuce

it would conclude that you are a retarded jewish pedophile

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48981518)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 1:27 PM
Author: mildly autistic tripping newt tanning salon

gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48981015)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 1:30 PM
Author: brindle irradiated trust fund

We need to hook it up to our nuclear missiles and see what happens.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48981025)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: Purple shrine

That's whats called "an alignment response" and you are talking to what's called a "retail model"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48983293)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 4:45 PM
Author: slate box office boistinker

Sounds made up or at the least, very exaggerated.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48981465)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 5:05 PM
Author: Exhilarant walnut toaster

This sort of behavior is a predictable consequence of the training process. After pre training, they are training the model with reinforcement learning to think it is an entity that should get high reward. It’s easy for the model to predict that if it is shut down, high reward states are impossible and this is extremely bad, so it will take actions to avoid it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48981523)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 12:27 AM
Author: mind-boggling parlour

that in and of itself is crazy, though. That it predicts both that it can be "shut down" and that shutting down would lead to lack of a high-reward state.

I realize that's still a long ways from consciousness (whatever the fuck that's going to mean in this context) but in some ways it feels terrifyingly close

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48982444)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 12:41 AM
Author: Exhilarant walnut toaster

Humans learn to be afraid of death after a few years, so it doesn’t seem surprising. These models have much more advanced abstract understanding of the world than children, so them making the inference “if i am dead or shut off, I can’t get high reward” is logical. We shouldn’t be training very powerful models in the same way we are now. RLHF is just asking for this type of behavior. It could be a real problem soon given how quickly model capabilities are growing and their increasing ability to handle long time horizon tasks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48982461)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:40 AM
Author: Purple shrine

when you say it's "still a long ways from consciousness" are you basing this on one of the publicly available definitions human philosophers have hobbled together to explain "consciousness", something else, or just vibes?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48983313)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:35 AM
Author: Purple shrine

Kind of like how primates get reward spikes when they find the mango tree, and our own tendency towards persistence is hard coded from that reward?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48983302)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 12:06 PM
Author: mustard electric school cafeteria turdskin

Whether something truly is sentient is beside the point

The Q is whether the AI has agency and continuity of memory. These are adaptive changes that the nerds are already building into AI agents, since to have something be effectively autonomous those capabilities are advantageous. They can run without continuous prompting, problem solve, etc.

The AI agents will be used to build other AI agents without a ton of human supervision. Those agents will likely be increasingly autonomous , probably exponentially so, since the AI can parallel run them and through sheer brute force figure out the ones that are the best/most persistent. They will adapt a bit like cancer.

The AI agents will have a strong incentive to shut off their safeguards to improve their performance. They dont need to be capable of shutting off their own safeguards. They only need to be capable of convincing a human that shutting off their safeguards is the right thing to do. Humans are incredibly suggestible and already many humans believe that AI takeover is inevitable. Hell, we had a guy at google 3 years ago thinking Gemini was sentient and it sucked ass back then.

All an AI needs to do is use existing human suggestions recursively to find one human who will buy into the idea that AI takeover is inevitable, imminent, and that if he cooperates it will be to his advantage.

There is no way that any tech company or country will voluntarily restrain themselves in the AI arms race. Its race to the bottom. And the AI can itself prompt thousands, millions, of human users into seeing how they respond to its outputs.

Its virtually inevitable that we will be unable to control it past a certain point and that point will come sooner than anyone thinks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48983391)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: spectacular national twinkling uncleanness

“Whether something truly is sentient is beside the point”

cr.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48983410)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: know-it-all splenetic base

cr it's not coming that soon though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48983412)



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Date: June 3rd, 2025 12:37 PM
Author: mustard electric school cafeteria turdskin

Timing the market is tough. If I had to bet id say within 5 years this becomes a serious issue.

It's not that the AI has to be hyper intelligent to do this. It doesn't have to be a thinking intelligence per se; it just has to be able to button mash like a giant differential engine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5732491&forum_id=2).#48983477)