Yudkowsky and Soares have a number of policy prescriptions, all of them basically nonsense. […] They say it should be illegal to own more than eight of the top 2024-era GPUs without submitting to nuclear-style monitoring by an international body.[…] nations must be prepared to enforce these restrictions by bombing unregistered data centres, even if this risks nuclear war, “because datacenters can kill more people than nuclear weapons” (emphasis theirs).
Take a deep breath. How did we get here? For me, this is all a form of Pascal’s wager. […]
Frankly, I don’t understand how anyone can go through their days thinking like this. People alive today matter. We have wants and worries. Billions of us are threatened by climate change, a subject that goes essentially unmentioned in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Let’s consign superintelligent AI to science fiction, where it belongs, and devote our energies to solving the problems of science fact here today.
LLMs, and that’s all that “AI” is today, can’t count the number of letters in a word reliably. These muppets need to take a deep breath and reevaluate their lives.