I’m pretty predisposed towards charismatic soundbyte-sized concepts. Not because they fit well on social media or tiktok or anything (perish the thought), but because they’re more memorable and they’re 1. easier to operationalize in your mind 2. you’re more likely to recall them during a real conversation with someone and 3. you’re more likely to recite the entire concept correctly, or the important bits (such as forgetting a billion von neumann but you can still say it’s a trillion or a million geniuses).
Don’t think of (powerful) AI as being like a smart guy who has to live on the human Internet. Think of it as an alien civilization initially stuck inside a computer, containing a billion von Neumanns running at 10,000X human speeds, which would like to achieve independence
I’m pretty predisposed towards charismatic soundbyte-sized concepts. Not because they fit well on social media or tiktok or anything (perish the thought), but because they’re more memorable and they’re 1. easier to operationalize in your mind 2. you’re more likely to recall them during a real conversation with someone and 3. you’re more likely to recite the entire concept correctly, or the important bits (such as forgetting a billion von neumann but you can still say it’s a trillion or a million geniuses).
This Yudkowsky tweet seems pretty relecant to lens #4: