Lethal Intelligence

Just saw the AI doc and came away pissed at the optimists. I sort of expected them to have any argument that actually addressed the x-risk side, but they were basically like 'historically tech is good, people have been worried before but it was fine!' They didn't address at ALL the extremely entry-level concerns of like 'building something smarter than us is a categorically new type of threat'. They just repeated that tech would help humanity. It's especially infuriating cause the most lifelong techno optimists I know ARE the doomers. The x-risk community are the ones who grew up on epic sci-fi fiction and have thought long and hard about what the singularity might bring. One of my friends (who was in the doc) once spent all night carrying ice into a hospital room to preserve the corpse of his friend in a desperate attempt to get him into a cryonics lab. It's real for them! But "AI has promise" is not even close to an adequate response to the extinction threat on the table. Even the AI CEOs in the movie - the ones that are *actually* doing the most acceleration - seemed to at least understand the gravity of the arguments they were engaging with. The optimists in the doc seemed to have domain expertise in their technical fields, but were amateurs. They both are insufficiently visionary and also fail to engage with the actual risk in a practical way. I think they pattern match the "ai might kill us" people onto general woke anti-tech movement, and shout against them from a place of ego. That's the only good explanation I can think of for why they must be beating an activist drum that's so damn empty.

This exchange there is important. There is nothing AI safety folks can do directly. The game is played in the collective unconscious sphere. Build enough awareness about the risk and beyond a certain threshold pieces might start falling into place.

This is HUGE and impressive A mathematician spends 20 years building an unsolvable problem, GPT-5.4 cracks it on the 11th attempt 👀 Polish mathematician Bartosz Naskręcki spent nearly two decades designing a research-level mathematics problem intended to test whether artificial intelligence could truly reason through complex proofs. During testing, GPT-5.4 attempted the challenge 11 times. Most attempts failed, but on one attempt the model produced a correct and elegant solution. Naskręcki, who had previously described AI as “just a very advanced calculator,” reviewed the proof and admitted he was very impressed, saying: “I am deeply impressed. The solution is very nice, clean, and feels almost human.” This breakthrough shows how AI can help mathematicians explore complex ideas very faster. In the future, AI could help scientists solve some of the hardest problems in mathematics and science lol.. This just a beginning of supersonic Acceleration 🚀