Rendered at 21:45:29 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Cloudflare Workers.
besterman23 2 hours ago [-]
“Yes, there’s still enormous uncertainty about what the rest of our lives will look like, but as far as I can tell, there’s no longer any real uncertainty that it’ll all mostly revolve around AI, and the extent to which we succeed or fail at directing its power toward human flourishing.”
Good to know that in the throes of coping with apparent existential unknowns, even smart people can still wiggle in some hubris. Imagine, using his own analogy, upon the resurrection you try to steer the son of the Hebrew god toward the perceived benefits of western moral philosophy.
qarl 17 hours ago [-]
I have a friend who earnestly told me I sound like an evangelical about AI. He worried for my sanity.
I told him that if I saw that Jesus was alive, walking amongst us, performing actual miracles - I would definitely try to convert him. I'm not one to look away from hard data just because it's inconvenient.
That's exactly what's going on right now. People's reactions to it are so weird.
arecurrence 1 days ago [-]
Scott Aaronson remarks in this article that the labs are sitting on a whole pile of incredible results that they cannot figure out how to release given the reception to the Navier-Stokes proof.
15 hours ago [-]
1attice 21 hours ago [-]
Satisfying to see Aaronson, who is usually downplaying some claimed advance, correctly panicking. It makes me feel better about my own.
For there is always a time to panic, no matter how exhausting the requirement might seem. And that time is now.
In all seriousness though, this is a very good primer on all the reasons I think that people who claim “the singularity has already started” are wrong. I urge anyone who’s panicking about AI (really?) to read this and consider it:
Good to know that in the throes of coping with apparent existential unknowns, even smart people can still wiggle in some hubris. Imagine, using his own analogy, upon the resurrection you try to steer the son of the Hebrew god toward the perceived benefits of western moral philosophy.
I told him that if I saw that Jesus was alive, walking amongst us, performing actual miracles - I would definitely try to convert him. I'm not one to look away from hard data just because it's inconvenient.
That's exactly what's going on right now. People's reactions to it are so weird.
For there is always a time to panic, no matter how exhausting the requirement might seem. And that time is now.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-must-create-the-shit-...
In all seriousness though, this is a very good primer on all the reasons I think that people who claim “the singularity has already started” are wrong. I urge anyone who’s panicking about AI (really?) to read this and consider it:
https://dank.systems/posts/2026-09-15-ai-bear.html