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Leopold Aschenbrenner essay on the AI arms race that will change world by 2027

Really good read and a podcast he did about it. Dude is ver...
Maize toaster
  06/12/24
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Maize toaster
  06/12/24
pretty chill that the world will end in five years and I spe...
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  06/12/24
It’s part of the data set
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  06/12/24
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  06/12/24
*superintelligent AI addressing the world* "I'm gay an...
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  06/12/24
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He just had another podcast with Chollet that was interestin...
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nothing being done in "ai" right now is a road to ...
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  06/12/24
This is not right. The trend lines are clear.
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  06/13/24
no
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Most people seem like pattern matchers who aren’t able...
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llms far surpass humans at defined, stereotyped tasks that w...
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I agree with this but most people suck at dealing with novel...
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  06/13/24
this is silly
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I, for one, cant wait for AI to do all my TPS reports for me...
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  06/13/24
The interesting thing about his essay is the geopolitics par...
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Ivanka read it and endorsed it. Can’t believe how much...
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There’s like a five percent chance of total destructio...
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  10/27/24
And the other scenarios? I don’t see much room for an ...
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  10/27/24
pretty sure something like Idiocracy covers most of the 90%
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  10/27/24
Nope. It's going to be a post-scarcity utopia, extinction, o...
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  10/27/24
Right. Like what would be a plausible middle ground with hyp...
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Where r we on this
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We are currently at a point where AI has surpassed almost al...
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lol we’ve got a live one here folks
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Do you think you are more intelligent than Claude Fable?
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Yes
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  07/31/26
At what?
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  07/31/26
He seems extremely gay (but I guess he isn't?) https://x....
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  07/31/26
That’s what Alpha zoomers look and sound like now
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lol at this super genius being a) right and b) blowing up hi...
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  07/31/26
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  08/01/26
lol cr, but also, 1) he got married this week while it was b...
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  08/02/26
what a stupid fucking name, holy shit
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  08/01/26
He's German. And you're not white.
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  08/01/26
oh no my arms are made of ai and racing around
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  08/02/26
Ken Griffin now owns this guy. Does that mean Ken griffin i...
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  08/02/26
Ken did well here but it took him until 2026 to realize AI i...
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Is he gonna use leopold’s mouth as a toilet?
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Date: June 12th, 2024 3:47 PM
Author: Maize toaster

Really good read and a podcast he did about it. Dude is very smart.

tl;dr version: superintelligence is within reach and the capex to get there is being spent, the teams are being assembled, the power plants built, etc.; eventually US government will step in to oversee the project as a kind of Manhattan Project because a six-month head start is the equivalent of 20-30 years in arms development; things get really weird from a game theory perspective once superintelligence is achieved but before the robots take over. It's US v. China with the Middle East and Russia posing major risks because of their abundant natural energy resources.

Essay: https://situational-awareness.ai/

Four-hour podcast: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/leopold-aschenbrenner

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#47740848)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 4:28 PM
Author: Maize toaster



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Date: June 12th, 2024 4:50 PM
Author: Arousing Sanctuary Crotch

pretty chill that the world will end in five years and I spend my precious remaining days poasting on a decrepit law school admissions forum

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#47741056)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 6:14 PM
Author: Maize toaster

It’s part of the data set

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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:22 PM
Author: Dead Aphrodisiac Dog Poop Shrine



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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:25 PM
Author: talented hateful spot

*superintelligent AI addressing the world*

"I'm gay and retarded"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#47741568)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:26 PM
Author: Dead Aphrodisiac Dog Poop Shrine

180000000000000000000000000000

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Date: June 14th, 2024 9:03 PM
Author: Maize toaster



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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:22 PM
Author: obsidian tattoo bbw

He just had another podcast with Chollet that was interesting and raised some concerns about this LLM maximalist point of view. LLMs still perform quite poorly on ARC. There are real concerns that transformer scaling will not address all the problems with out of distribution generalization and algorithmic reasoning. This buys a bit of time and probably pushes out timelines past 2027. Things will become progressively weirder though over the next decade and it’s hard to see how AGI is out more than 15 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#47741554)



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Date: June 12th, 2024 7:29 PM
Author: Cracking disrespectful legend public bath

nothing being done in "ai" right now is a road to actual intelligence. what we have right now is essentially a sophisticated version of a database that can accept unstructured queries and that can interpolate between dataset entries. it would take a complete paradigm shift to get to something qualitatively more powerful than that. may or may not happen.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#47741579)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: Maize toaster

This is not right. The trend lines are clear.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#47743102)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 12:51 PM
Author: Cracking disrespectful legend public bath

no

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Date: June 13th, 2024 1:23 PM
Author: obsidian tattoo bbw

Most people seem like pattern matchers who aren’t able to robustly deal with novel situations. I would trust GPT-4 more to solve a random math word problem or answer RC questions from an LSAT than most people. The interpolation/extrapolation distinction becomes less and less meaningful in high dimensional spaces when you are training on everything. I agree LLMs don’t go all the way but they very likely go a lot further than they do now and there are other things in the AI space used for game playing that look like they can be combined with LLMs to bootstrap capabilities.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#47743513)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 2:01 PM
Author: Cracking disrespectful legend public bath

llms far surpass humans at defined, stereotyped tasks that we have a lot of data for. they can't generalize to unseen environments (new probability distributions) and they lack an inherent teleology to prompt them interact with those environments.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#47743680)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 2:47 PM
Author: obsidian tattoo bbw

I agree with this but most people suck at dealing with novel situations too and they can’t even do the routine cognitive tasks that GPT-4 excels at. I don’t think a median human could be made competitive with it at reading comprehension tasks. With 100x the training compute, there is no chance. There is really no principled reason why LLMs paired with model based RL couldn’t be made data efficient and adaptable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#47743890)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 4:14 PM
Author: Cracking disrespectful legend public bath

this is silly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#47744229)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 11:39 AM
Author: iridescent unholy theater stage

I, for one, cant wait for AI to do all my TPS reports for me. Whatever will I do once those are automated? Never mind that basically everything we do in Compliance is bespoke transaction monitoring and the vanilla bulk transaction stuff was automated 24-25 years ago and hasnt had humans involved in a generation anyway.

Like the biggest thing is Compliance now is marijuana and the hemp exemption BS that plagues us. The fuck is AI going to do about any of that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#47743117)



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Date: June 13th, 2024 11:43 AM
Author: Maize toaster

The interesting thing about his essay is the geopolitics part. The time when AGI is pursued by private companies is coming to a close.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#47743136)



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Date: June 16th, 2024 7:28 PM
Author: Maize toaster



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Date: October 27th, 2024 3:00 PM
Author: obsidian tattoo bbw

Ivanka read it and endorsed it. Can’t believe how much AI is starting to affect elite thinking

https://x.com/IvankaTrump/status/1839002887600370145

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#48246542)



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Date: October 27th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: Maize toaster

There’s like a five percent chance of total destruction and a five percent chance of positive total transformation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#48247027)



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Date: October 27th, 2024 6:20 PM
Author: obsidian tattoo bbw

And the other scenarios? I don’t see much room for an outcome in between.

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Date: October 27th, 2024 6:22 PM
Author: Razzle Queen Of The Night Trailer Park

pretty sure something like Idiocracy covers most of the 90%

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#48247323)



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Date: October 27th, 2024 6:24 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle native rigor

Nope. It's going to be a post-scarcity utopia, extinction, or some sort of truly weird outcome like everyone being uploaded into a simulation of something retarded for eternity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#48247333)



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Date: October 27th, 2024 8:36 PM
Author: obsidian tattoo bbw

Right. Like what would be a plausible middle ground with hyper intelligent machines? You would have to believe intelligence tops at exactly the human level, when we have many reasons for believing that is not the case. Life can not go on in a normal way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#48247755)



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Date: November 1st, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: Maize toaster



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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:16 AM
Author: Appetizing brilliant roast beef doctorate

Where r we on this

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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:23 AM
Author: sienna aromatic gay wizard keepsake machete

We are currently at a point where AI has surpassed almost all if not all humans in intelligence. And it's not even 2027 yet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#50036002)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:25 AM
Author: Appetizing brilliant roast beef doctorate

lol we’ve got a live one here folks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#50036007)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:26 AM
Author: sienna aromatic gay wizard keepsake machete

Do you think you are more intelligent than Claude Fable?

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Date: July 31st, 2026 12:45 AM
Author: Appetizing brilliant roast beef doctorate

Yes

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Date: July 31st, 2026 4:46 PM
Author: Maize toaster

At what?

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Date: July 31st, 2026 1:57 AM
Author: Trip cuck puppy

He seems extremely gay (but I guess he isn't?)

https://x.com/dnapway/status/2082876150322540657

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Date: July 31st, 2026 4:46 PM
Author: Maize toaster

That’s what Alpha zoomers look and sound like now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#50037373)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 4:46 PM
Author: Maize toaster

lol at this super genius being a) right and b) blowing up his fund with leverage and c) having to sell all his positions to Citadel.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#50037370)



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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:45 PM
Author: Maize toaster



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 12:13 AM
Author: zombie-like nowag idiot

lol cr, but also, 1) he got married this week while it was blowing up, and 2) he's still up 80% or something this year

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#50040182)



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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:45 PM
Author: claret forum wagecucks

what a stupid fucking name, holy shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#50040161)



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Date: August 1st, 2026 11:58 PM
Author: Trip cuck puppy

He's German.

And you're not white.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#50040176)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 12:14 AM
Author: mischievous background story

oh no my arms are made of ai and racing around

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#50040183)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 12:26 AM
Author: pearl charismatic striped hyena

Ken Griffin now owns this guy. Does that mean Ken griffin is smarter, or just more valuable?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#50040199)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 12:33 AM
Author: adulterous thriller lodge

Ken did well here but it took him until 2026 to realize AI is not flame and the world won’t remain the same for much longer.

https://x.com/fundamentedge/status/2055675389767516544?s=46

He was calling it slop a couple years ago when it was clear further scaling would bring us to this point and beyond

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#50040202)



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Date: August 2nd, 2026 12:35 AM
Author: pearl charismatic striped hyena

Is he gonna use leopold’s mouth as a toilet?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5539938&forum_id=2�id.#50040204)