28 governments signed a declaration agreeing to cooperate on risks of AI

Yeah, I've often reflected that it is primarily language that makes us intelligent. The majority of my thought process is just an internal dialogue. I've tried to suppress it at times to experience what it's like to think without language and my conclusion has always been that it's rather bleak.

Without language, we're just slightly clever apes.

LLMs have only reinforced this conclusion. AI folks like to say, "it's not thinking, it's only telling you the next most likely token". However, rather than dissuade me from thinking LLMs have some cognitive capability, it's only made me wonder if that's not all there is to my own intelligence.

Your comment about our intelligence as a species existing as bits of language distributed across the net has been on my mind for many years.

It is strange to me that we might have knowledge that exists on that Internet that no human currently possesses in their mind.

That LLMs now have access to this knowledge and could explain things to us humans that would be completely novel to us.

I've always thought the Earth itself is slowly bexomint alive. Power plants are it's mitochondria. Datacenters as a distributed brain. Internet as the communication network. Transmitters and receivers it's mouth and ears.

There is a growing trend which considers that all things are knowable and all things are describable. If you believe that then the idea that we are defined by language seems obvious.

I would argue that we are far more than that and that that idea diminishes us.

What will always set us apart from AI is that which cannot be written down, illustrated or otherwise defined. It is a river which AI will never cross.

But at least in those countries AI innovation is stifled and big tech can keep their monopoly’s for somewhat longer. We simply won’t allow unlicensed dangerous AI from other countries. We won’t allow it to exterminate us! It’s the law!

I share the sentiment about the declaration being ill-conceived. But given that it was signed by EU (not sure how that works given that both EU and Germany are listed separately)+China+US+Canada+South Korea+Japan+India+Israel+etc., I would call it nothing but a meaningless gesture.

Out of the countries that haven’t signed this, who do you foresee wrecking those signee countries using some homegrown powerful AI? New Zealand? Please lol.

Appropriate given that prominent factions have cycled back around to banning cryptography again.

He wants regulatory capture. By this stage everyone should understand how the world works - make billions, bribe politicians, subdue the masses. Procedural generator regulation are just an example of how it works.

> CEO of SpaceX, CEO of Tesla and CEO of X

You forgot "co-founder of OpenAI".