David Shapiro (L/0)

So, to summarize, 900 mathematicians signed a letter basically saying "stop AI from doing math so that our jobs can stick around." But for anyone who spends more than 5 seconds thinking about what unlocking the equivalent of a billion Fields Medalists would do for humanity, the benefits dramatically outweigh the costs. Math abundance will help solve chips, medicine, fusion, and numerous other things that will improve the lives of billions, and save millions of lives. I mean, there was a 0% chance of OpenAI (or any other AI lab) slowing down, so it's a moot point anyways. But it just seems extremely selfish.

I wonder if the distillation attacks have been cut off because the American shops have gotten better at post training and internal reasoning? I'm split because on the one hand I prefer a world with unequivocal American dominance. On the other hand, I appreciate the competition that Chinese efforts created, which drove quality and pace up, and prices down

Accelerate American Open Source

I have a big hope for post-labor economics, and that is that post-labor economics will show that there can be a win-win situation between labor and capital, between left and right, and between rich and poor. Those three dichotomies or tensions are really in alignment in my view because we all want the same thing. We all want a better life, higher GDP, more economic output, and nobody wants to be left behind. My hope is that my work on post-labor economics will show that there is a path forward where everyone wins. One of the primary reasons that I want this personally is because I want AI development and deployment to accelerate. My biggest fear is that popular resistance to artificial intelligence in the form of data centers and regulation will be mostly because the proletariat see this, rightly so, as the billionaires just trying to get richer and freeze everyone else out. That doesn't serve anyone's interest in the long run. If we can create a situation where the ordinary person, the ordinary voter wins, and the ordinary businessman wins, and everyone can participate in this better future, then we'll have much more alignment and people will want the same things. That is why I am working so hard on post-labor economics, because one of the things that I want is for artificial intelligence to accelerate to the point that we can cure all diseases and reverse aging, so that we can all live youthful, energetic, vibrant lives for decades, if not centuries, and really just enjoy being human and turn back towards each other and get away from the rat race once and for all.

I sold all my tech stocks a few months ago when I was trying to reverse Leopold's strategy and something just wasn't adding up. Literally all I did was ask ChatGPT PRO to evaluate his positions and strategy and justify any belief that it could keep going higher, but the reality was everything was overpriced and even the slightest miss (anything under gigantic inflated expectations) could tank the stock prices. So, since none of it made sense, I sold everything and pivoted to an S&P500 index fund. I was situationally aware. (And yes, I did all that before he lost his shirt a couple months ago).

ChatGPT is a fucking joke sometimes. Yes, I abhor Grok. But I explicitly told ChatGPT to hand off design work to Claude and it decided to do the work itself and passed off this absolute fucking joke of an SVG.

This is still fundamentally a transfer. While it's not a bad idea as a part of a Post-Labor plan, it's far from complete. The primary reason? It locks everyone into being a client of the state.

So, let me get this straight, you expect them to advance math and science without actually testing anything? Because they have to actually test the models. Like, that's how a release works. To know if they are getting better, you have to test them. Delusional IMHO

I actually think this would be a good idea. Deeply symbolic. #Promethianism

I've spent the last couple years fighting off h Pylori. This is basically all you need to read.

My hot take: This is exactly what we need. We need AI to engineer the entire financial system. Put it all on a transparent blockchain and let the AI manage it without politicians. Let the AI represent the interests of the people. But that would actually be progressive. Bernie is not a progressive.

In my opinion this is no different from outsourcing illustration work. If I write a book, a manga, a comic, or a graphic novel, but I don't do the illustration myself, it doesn't make it any less my creation.