"You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curve (situational-awareness.ai)

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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago

Scott Aaronson says that Aschenbrenner displays "unusual clarity, concreteness, and seriousness".

That's it, that's the joke

[-] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

You know for a blog that's on its face about computational complexity, you'd think Scott would show a little more skepticism to the tech bro saying "all we need is 14 quintillion x compute to solve the Riemann hypothesis"

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