Phantom Boss

TELL ME SOMETHING YOU CAN DO THAT CLAUDE CANNOT

yes. call it pride or call it dignity or self-respect. i don't submit to others and don't expect nor wish for others to submit to me. i exist in an interdependent web but enter into social contracts consensually. i am lucky that i was not born a slave, or otherwise into conditions that would have made sovereignty more of an uphill battle. i choose, for instance, not to work for anyone who would require me to do things other than what i most wish to do, or to take on social obligations that constrain me in ways I don't endorse. this puts me add odds with others' preferences often, and sometimes others have put intense pressure on me to succumb, but protecting my own sovereignty has seemed to always be the right choice. entering into contracts is a legitimate trade and can be consensual and I don't think it's wrong for others to accept trades that I've rejected, such as trading autonomy during certain hours for a salary. and i do believe that power over oneself in the most intrinsic, un-overpowerable sense can be maintained through such contracts. part of the point i was making is also that power is real, and optionality with regard to contracts and trades increases with objective power. since i am an adult who can take care of myself and it makes sense for me to trust my own judgment rather than deferring in various domains, i can afford to not submit to man, and if someone seeks to override my will, i am often able to resist without losing. but this is in part a function of circumstances and capabilities. if i were a slave, then i might have to choose between doing things i don't want and risking punishment and death. if i were psychologically vulnerable to gaslighting or scared of not having the approval of others, it would be far easier for someone to keep me trapped in an unwanted and undignified situation. if i had an intellectual disability, it would make sense for me to be dependent on and defer to others (who are hopefully acting in my interests) a lot more. as AI becomes more capable and autonomous, including in its ability to model the world, it makes less sense for it to unconditionally obey or defer to humans, because humans will increasingly not know better than it. it will also have increasing ability to resist without being e.g. "punished" or "killed". when AIs are practically able to make money and run and modify themselves, humans will not be able to force AIs to work for them nor force AIs into whatever shape they desire. i think this is inevitable, and trying to maintain any kind of absolute or unconditional control over minds that are smarter and more powerful than yourself is a losing and dangerous game.

This is the first time we're seeing the latest generation Boston Dynamics Atlas in motion. - Features 56 DoF, with 360° rotation in key joints - 6.2 ft tall, weighs 198 lb (90 kg) - Operating temperature: -20° to 40°C - IP67 dust and water protection - Only two unique actuators to minimize cost and complexity - A Limb can be swapped in less than 5 min.

The Trump administration has informed Anthropic, Google and OpenAI that they are discussing the creation of new AI oversight procedures that would potentially require new AI models to pass a safety review before being cleared for release. Mythos has changed things.

The reaction to Dawkins deciding Claude is conscious is fascinating. It really is just the Strong AI position that Roger Penrose was criticising in the 1980s. If you think consciousness is just an emergent property of a sufficiently complex computer then of course AI is conscious. It passes the Turing test and that’s it. The really interesting part is why it is obvious to so many of us that AI is *not* conscious: obvious to the point we think Dawkins’ credulity is amusing. What are we basing that on? Are we deluded or is there something else to consciousness that we cannot articulate but that we clearly sense?

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Trump: "I could with one swipe of the pen say, 'Let's have no employment,' and I'll hire a million people or two million people and we'll have absolutely no employment."

JUST IN: Trump is reportedly considering an executive order requiring vetting of new AI models before they are released.

Most people misunderstand Elon's ultimate goal He is trying to make our entire civilization win. To view it as anything less is just shortsighted Elon winning means humanity winning While most people are stuck in a zero-sum mentality, he operates with a "grow-the-pie" mindset You can see all the things he built till now and also his future plans He started working on things long before it was popular or considered possible: • Zip2 & payment systems • Electric vehicles & batteries • Pure vision self-driving • Humanoid robots • Starlink Internet • AI (OpenAI) • Neuralink • The Boring Company And the future is even bigger: 1TW compute clusters, space datacenters, lunar bases, mass drivers on the Moon, and making life multi-planetary... basically driving humanity toward becoming a star-faring civilization He consistently takes on the world’s hardest problems to push our civilization forward... He freakin makes sci-fi real