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Leopold Aschenbrenner, on "AGI Realism"

Very good piece. If "poshlost" catches on it may be partly because this Russian word to denote empty high culture signifiers sounds a bit like an English neologism that means the loss of poshness (could this de-contexted split make it recursively an example of itself?).

Perhaps the threat was never a rogue AI agent trying to subvert humans—but humans using AI to hurt other humans.

Over the past two months, we have been leading a coalition to mitigate one of the most severe bugs in open source software found in recent memory, php2shell, found as part of our Patch the Planet initiative.

This has been obviously destined since Dario saw GPT-3 autocompleting a for-loop in python and was struck by a vision of our future. My guess is that this has barely started, and that Super Worms are coming. There's never been a better time to build an intranet for your people.

.@jamespoulos explains why letting AI take over the entire economy could turn UBI into a trap: "It’s always nice to put the money in the collection plate because you want to and you can, rather than because you’re afraid that your neighbors are gonna hate you if you don’t." "Keeping it that way is definitely going to involve keeping certain elements of socioeconomic life distinctively human. It’s one thing to be banning superintelligence or whatever. It’s another thing to let the humans human. It’s a good hedge against all kinds of weirdness" "We have a large country, thank God. Lots of room to conduct these experiments."

.@jamespoulos argues that people should get a share of AI profits even if they never use AI: "So few people have engaged with AI at all beyond a chatbot level. People are worried that this is just gonna be a backdoor to serfdom." "It is not necessary for a person sitting on a board to use the product of the company. You could think of an arrangement where large numbers of people are stakeholders in these entities, not obliged to use the product, not gonna receive a lower number of credits if your usage is down." "Super concentrated finances tend to result in super concentrated political systems. Tyranny bad, autocracy bad, fill in the blank."

.@jamespoulos on why Anthropic's UBI-like proposal could become a bribe to surrender your humanity: "Interesting to see a company do this instead of a government, which shakes up some of the preexisting ideological stances on UBI." "You read the sci-fi corpus and you quickly learn that you can be very optimistic within a dystopian setting or very pessimistic in a utopian setting." "One corporation eats everything, no one owns their data, total surveillance state. But you can have an optimistic UBI: we’re gonna send everyone money so that they can preserve their humanity." "The flip side: a utopian AGI world. But we’re gonna give everyone money to basically bribe them to surrender their humanity and become food or battery packs or biological bootloaders for this post-human intelligence."

In the last 24 hours alone, I've seen. 1. iPhone 11 through 16 are apparently vulnerable to remote attacks. 2. SSL certificates are broken until browsers remove eMudhra CA. 3. PHP RCE (php2shell) One is a leaked remote unlock capability for the most common phones on the planet. One is a broken link in the certificate authority system that underpins the entire encrypted web and another is a core language vulnerability that affects a huge fraction of the internet’s servers. This is the pace now. AI does not have to "take over" for the environment to become unmanageable by traditional human processes. It only has to make discovery, weaponisation, and automation faster than the average organisation’s inventory, patching, and monitoring cycle. If your plan was still "wait and see how AI plays out in security," I hope you have loyal religiously loyal customers and a hell of an insurance policy. Inventory what you run (especially PHP and anything that trusts public CAs), prepare to patch at the speed these things now appear, and start treating AI-assisted detection and response as table stakes rather than a future project. The window for comfortable observation is closed.

PHP VULNERABILITY | DARIO LONGPOST | SI CONTROL STANDARDS xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1wxWjlNmQ…

"The demon of vainglory transforms himself into an angel of light... He shows us visions of lights, shapes, and dramatic configurations, and whispers that we have attained a high degree of holiness. Reject every such light and form with humility, for Christ does not manifest Himself in visual traps." The Ladder St John Climacus (6th century)