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Leopold Aschenbrenner essay on the AI arms race that will change world by 2027

Really good read and a podcast he did about it. Dude is ver...
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Provocative trust fund genital piercing
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pretty chill that the world will end in five years and I spe...
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It’s part of the data set
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*superintelligent AI addressing the world* "I'm gay an...
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He just had another podcast with Chollet that was interestin...
geriatric stage newt
  06/12/24
nothing being done in "ai" right now is a road to ...
Chrome abnormal plaza
  06/12/24
This is not right. The trend lines are clear.
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no
Chrome abnormal plaza
  06/13/24
Most people seem like pattern matchers who aren’t able...
geriatric stage newt
  06/13/24
llms far surpass humans at defined, stereotyped tasks that w...
Chrome abnormal plaza
  06/13/24
I agree with this but most people suck at dealing with novel...
geriatric stage newt
  06/13/24
this is silly
Chrome abnormal plaza
  06/13/24
I, for one, cant wait for AI to do all my TPS reports for me...
Passionate very tactful goal in life gay wizard
  06/13/24
The interesting thing about his essay is the geopolitics par...
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Ivanka read it and endorsed it. Can’t believe how much...
geriatric stage newt
  10/27/24
There’s like a five percent chance of total destructio...
Provocative trust fund genital piercing
  10/27/24
And the other scenarios? I don’t see much room for an ...
geriatric stage newt
  10/27/24
pretty sure something like Idiocracy covers most of the 90%
Primrose big digit ratio
  10/27/24
Nope. It's going to be a post-scarcity utopia, extinction, o...
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Right. Like what would be a plausible middle ground with hyp...
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Where r we on this
.,.,.,.,,,,.,,.,.,.,...,,..,,
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We are currently at a point where AI has surpassed almost al...
The Penis
  07/31/26
lol we’ve got a live one here folks
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Do you think you are more intelligent than Claude Fable?
The Penis
  07/31/26
Yes
.,.,.,.,,,,.,,.,.,.,...,,..,,
  07/31/26
At what?
valar vettiri morghulis
  07/31/26
He seems extremely gay (but I guess he isn't?) https://x....
Ceci n'est pas un pumo
  07/31/26
That’s what Alpha zoomers look and sound like now
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lol at this super genius being a) right and b) blowing up hi...
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lol cr, but also, 1) he got married this week while it was b...
Kenneth Play
  08/02/26
what a stupid fucking name, holy shit
Karlspank
  08/01/26
He's German. And you're not white.
Ceci n'est pas un pumo
  08/01/26
oh no my arms are made of ai and racing around
screen memories
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Ken Griffin now owns this guy. Does that mean Ken griffin i...
the walter white of this generation (walt jr.)
  08/02/26
Ken did well here but it took him until 2026 to realize AI i...
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  08/02/26
Is he gonna use leopold’s mouth as a toilet?
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Date: June 12th, 2024 3:47 PM
Author: Provocative trust fund genital piercing

Really good read and a podcast he did about it. Dude is very smart.

tl;dr version: superintelligence is within reach and the capex to get there is being spent, the teams are being assembled, the power plants built, etc.; eventually US government will step in to oversee the project as a kind of Manhattan Project because a six-month head start is the equivalent of 20-30 years in arms development; things get really weird from a game theory perspective once superintelligence is achieved but before the robots take over. It's US v. China with the Middle East and Russia posing major risks because of their abundant natural energy resources.

Essay: https://situational-awareness.ai/

Four-hour podcast: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/leopold-aschenbrenner

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47740848)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 4:28 PM
Author: Provocative trust fund genital piercing



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Date: June 12th, 2024 4:50 PM
Author: Hilarious pink fortuitous meteor

pretty chill that the world will end in five years and I spend my precious remaining days poasting on a decrepit law school admissions forum

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47741056)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 6:14 PM
Author: Provocative trust fund genital piercing

It’s part of the data set

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47741277)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:22 PM
Author: Spectacular crawly office dingle berry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47741556)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:25 PM
Author: 180 sapphire mad cow disease area

*superintelligent AI addressing the world*

"I'm gay and retarded"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47741568)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:26 PM
Author: Spectacular crawly office dingle berry

180000000000000000000000000000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47741570)



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Date: June 14th, 2024 9:03 PM
Author: Provocative trust fund genital piercing



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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:22 PM
Author: geriatric stage newt

He just had another podcast with Chollet that was interesting and raised some concerns about this LLM maximalist point of view. LLMs still perform quite poorly on ARC. There are real concerns that transformer scaling will not address all the problems with out of distribution generalization and algorithmic reasoning. This buys a bit of time and probably pushes out timelines past 2027. Things will become progressively weirder though over the next decade and it’s hard to see how AGI is out more than 15 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47741554)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:29 PM
Author: Chrome abnormal plaza

nothing being done in "ai" right now is a road to actual intelligence. what we have right now is essentially a sophisticated version of a database that can accept unstructured queries and that can interpolate between dataset entries. it would take a complete paradigm shift to get to something qualitatively more powerful than that. may or may not happen.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47741579)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: Provocative trust fund genital piercing

This is not right. The trend lines are clear.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47743102)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 12:51 PM
Author: Chrome abnormal plaza

no

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47743420)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 1:23 PM
Author: geriatric stage newt

Most people seem like pattern matchers who aren’t able to robustly deal with novel situations. I would trust GPT-4 more to solve a random math word problem or answer RC questions from an LSAT than most people. The interpolation/extrapolation distinction becomes less and less meaningful in high dimensional spaces when you are training on everything. I agree LLMs don’t go all the way but they very likely go a lot further than they do now and there are other things in the AI space used for game playing that look like they can be combined with LLMs to bootstrap capabilities.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47743513)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 2:01 PM
Author: Chrome abnormal plaza

llms far surpass humans at defined, stereotyped tasks that we have a lot of data for. they can't generalize to unseen environments (new probability distributions) and they lack an inherent teleology to prompt them interact with those environments.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47743680)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 2:47 PM
Author: geriatric stage newt

I agree with this but most people suck at dealing with novel situations too and they can’t even do the routine cognitive tasks that GPT-4 excels at. I don’t think a median human could be made competitive with it at reading comprehension tasks. With 100x the training compute, there is no chance. There is really no principled reason why LLMs paired with model based RL couldn’t be made data efficient and adaptable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47743890)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 4:14 PM
Author: Chrome abnormal plaza

this is silly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47744229)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 11:39 AM
Author: Passionate very tactful goal in life gay wizard

I, for one, cant wait for AI to do all my TPS reports for me. Whatever will I do once those are automated? Never mind that basically everything we do in Compliance is bespoke transaction monitoring and the vanilla bulk transaction stuff was automated 24-25 years ago and hasnt had humans involved in a generation anyway.

Like the biggest thing is Compliance now is marijuana and the hemp exemption BS that plagues us. The fuck is AI going to do about any of that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47743117)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 11:43 AM
Author: Provocative trust fund genital piercing

The interesting thing about his essay is the geopolitics part. The time when AGI is pursued by private companies is coming to a close.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#47743136)



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Date: June 16th, 2024 7:28 PM
Author: Provocative trust fund genital piercing



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Date: October 27th, 2024 3:00 PM
Author: geriatric stage newt

Ivanka read it and endorsed it. Can’t believe how much AI is starting to affect elite thinking

https://x.com/IvankaTrump/status/1839002887600370145

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#48246542)



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Date: October 27th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: Provocative trust fund genital piercing

There’s like a five percent chance of total destruction and a five percent chance of positive total transformation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#48247027)



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Date: October 27th, 2024 6:20 PM
Author: geriatric stage newt

And the other scenarios? I don’t see much room for an outcome in between.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#48247316)



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Date: October 27th, 2024 6:22 PM
Author: Primrose big digit ratio

pretty sure something like Idiocracy covers most of the 90%

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#48247323)



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Date: October 27th, 2024 6:24 PM
Author: Maroon fat ankles site

Nope. It's going to be a post-scarcity utopia, extinction, or some sort of truly weird outcome like everyone being uploaded into a simulation of something retarded for eternity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#48247333)



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Date: October 27th, 2024 8:36 PM
Author: geriatric stage newt

Right. Like what would be a plausible middle ground with hyper intelligent machines? You would have to believe intelligence tops at exactly the human level, when we have many reasons for believing that is not the case. Life can not go on in a normal way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#48247755)



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Date: November 1st, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: Provocative trust fund genital piercing



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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:16 AM
Author: .,.,.,.,,,,.,,.,.,.,...,,..,,


Where r we on this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50035998)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:23 AM
Author: The Penis

We are currently at a point where AI has surpassed almost all if not all humans in intelligence. And it's not even 2027 yet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50036002)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:25 AM
Author: .,.,.,.,,,,.,,.,.,.,...,,..,,


lol we’ve got a live one here folks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50036007)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:26 AM
Author: The Penis

Do you think you are more intelligent than Claude Fable?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50036009)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:45 AM
Author: .,.,.,.,,,,.,,.,.,.,...,,..,,


Yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50036028)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 4:46 PM
Author: valar vettiri morghulis

At what?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50037372)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 1:57 AM
Author: Ceci n'est pas un pumo

He seems extremely gay (but I guess he isn't?)

https://x.com/dnapway/status/2082876150322540657

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50036052)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 4:46 PM
Author: valar vettiri morghulis

That’s what Alpha zoomers look and sound like now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50037373)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 4:46 PM
Author: valar vettiri morghulis

lol at this super genius being a) right and b) blowing up his fund with leverage and c) having to sell all his positions to Citadel.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50037370)



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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:45 PM
Author: valar vettiri morghulis



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 12:13 AM
Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth)

lol cr, but also, 1) he got married this week while it was blowing up, and 2) he's still up 80% or something this year

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50040182)



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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:45 PM
Author: Karlspank

what a stupid fucking name, holy shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50040161)



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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:58 PM
Author: Ceci n'est pas un pumo

He's German.

And you're not white.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50040176)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 12:14 AM
Author: screen memories

oh no my arms are made of ai and racing around

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50040183)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 12:26 AM
Author: the walter white of this generation (walt jr.)

Ken Griffin now owns this guy. Does that mean Ken griffin is smarter, or just more valuable?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50040199)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 12:33 AM
Author: ,.,....,..,.,.,,,,..,..,.,..,.,.,.,...


Ken did well here but it took him until 2026 to realize AI is not flame and the world won’t remain the same for much longer.

https://x.com/fundamentedge/status/2055675389767516544?s=46

He was calling it slop a couple years ago when it was clear further scaling would bring us to this point and beyond

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50040202)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 12:35 AM
Author: the walter white of this generation (walt jr.)

Is he gonna use leopold’s mouth as a toilet?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#50040204)