danbmil

How exactly is this irresponsible? Are you proclaiming that any discussion of "machine consciousness" is axiomatically misleading?

If the Universe is computable, then human thinking is computable. All due respect to Penrose for his stellar achievements, but frankly the implications of Turing Complete, the halting problem, Church/Turing hypothesis and the point of Godel's Theorem seem to be things he does not fully understand.

I know this sounds cheeky but we all have brains that are good at some things and have failure modes as well. We are certainly seeing shadows of Human-type fallability in neural nets, which somehow seem to have a lot of similarities to human thinking.

Brains evolved in the physical world to solve problems and help organisms survive, thrive, and reproduce. Evolution is the product of a massive search over potential physical arrangements. I see no reason why the systems we develop would operate on drastically different premises.

I would love to see the day when Autodesk is sold to some scumbag bigCo for peanuts.

My peak programming skills are close to what they were 30 years ago, but I cannot sustain that level of concentration for long periods as I once could.

I feel like a pinch hitter: I can do a couple innings at a high level of performance, but I can't keep that level up as long as I used to.

OTOH I think I have better judgement when it comes to deep, complex questions of long-term architecture choices. My "meta-programming" skills are sharper than ever.

I think he is referring to an AGI that is 10000x more productive than a median programmer

Agreed. This discussion around safety reminds me of the early days of cybersecurity, when security by obscurity was the norm.

It's counter-intuitive, but locking up a technology is like trying to control prices and wages. It just doesn't work -- unless you confiscate every GPU in the world and bomb datacenters etc.

The best way to align with the coming AGI's and ASI's is to build them in the sunlight. Every lock-em-up approach is doomed to fail (I guess that makes me a meta-doomer?)

An alternate theory is that Suskever was manipulated and sucked into the plot on sketchy pretenses, and realizes it now and trying to make right.

as for multiple teams with overlapping goals -- are you kidding me? That's a 100% legit and popular tactic. Once CEO I worked with relished this approach and called it a "Steel-cage death match"!

The CEO's I've worked for have mostly been mini-DonaldT's, almost pathologically allergic to truth, logic, or consistency. Altman seems way over on the normal scale for CEO of a multi-billion dollar company. I'm sure he can knock two eggs together to make an omelette, but these piddling excuses for firing him don't pass the smell test.

I get the feeling Ilya might be a bit naive about how people work, and may have been taken advantage of (by for example spinning this as a safety issue when it's just a good old fashioned power struggle)

Your Sr Data Eng posting says "Sr Data Scientist" and looks almost identical to the scientist posting.

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