(The only thing I will say is that chapter 13 is insane on the highest difficulty lol)

Technology IngrownMink4 • Now • 100%

What do you think about this debate?

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Let me give you some context. Two important figures in the field of artificial intelligence are taking part in this debate. On the one hand, there is George Hotz, known as "GeoHot" on the internet, who became famous for reverse-engineering the PS3 and breaking the security of the iPhone. Fun fact: He has studied at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. On the other hand, there's Connor Leathy, an entrepreneur and artificial intelligence researcher. He is best known as a co-founder and co-lead of EleutherAI, a grassroots non-profit organization focused on advancing open-source artificial intelligence research. Here is a detailed summary of the transcript: ::: spoiler spoiler Opening Statements - George Hotz (GH) Opening Statement: - GH believes AI capabilities will continue to increase exponentially, following a trajectory similar to computers (slow improvements in 1980s computers vs fast modern computers). - In contrast, human capabilities have remained relatively static over time (a 1980 human is similar to a 2020 human). - These trajectories will inevitably cross at some point, and GH doesn't see any reason for the AI capability trajectory to stop increasing. - GH doesn't believe there will be a sudden step change where an AI becomes "conscious" and thus more intelligent. Intelligence is a gradient, not a step function. - The amount of power in the world (in terms of intelligence, capability, etc.) is about to greatly increase with advancing AI. - Major risks GH is worried about: - Imbalance of power if a single person or small group gains control of superintelligent AI (analogy of "chicken man" controlling chickens on a farm). - GH doesn't want to be left behind as one of the "chickens" if powerful groups monopolize access to AI. - Best defense GH can have against future AI manipulation/exploitation is having an aligned AI on his side. GH is not worried about alignment as a technical challenge, but as a political challenge. - GH is not worried about increased intelligence itself, but the distribution of that intelligence. If it's narrowly concentrated, that could be dangerous. - Connor Leahy (CL) Opening Statement: - CL has two key points: 1. Alignment is a hard technical problem that needs to be solved before advanced AGI is developed. Currently not on track to solve it. 2. Humans are more aligned than we give credit for thanks to social technology and institutions. Modern humans can cooperate surprisingly well. - On the first point, CL believes the technical challenges of alignment/control must be solved to avoid negative outcomes when turning on a superintelligent AI. - On the second point, CL argues human coordination and alignment is a technology that can be improved over time. Modern global coordination is an astounding achievement compared to historical examples. - CL believes positive-sum games and mutually beneficial outcomes are possible through improving coordination tech/institutions. Debate Between GH and CL: - On stability and chaos of society: - GH argues that the appearance of stability and cooperation in modern society comes from totalitarian forcing of fear, not "enlightened cooperation." - CL disagrees, arguing that cooperation itself is a technology that can be improved upon. The world is more stable and less violent now than in the past. - GH counters that this stability comes from tyrannical systems dominating people through fear into acquiescence. This should be resisted. - CL disagrees, arguing there are non-tyrannical ways to achieve large-scale coordination through improving institutions and social technology. - On values and ethics: - GH argues values don't truly objectively exist, and AIs will end up being just as inconsistent in their values as humans are. - CL counters that many human values relate to aesthetic preferences and trajectories for the world, beyond just their personal sensory experiences. - GH argues the concept of "AI alignment" is incoherent and he doesn't understand what it means. - CL suggests using Eliezer's definition of alignment as a starting point - solving alignment makes turning on AGI positive rather than negative. But CL is happy to use a more practical definition. He states AI safety research is concerned with avoiding negative outcomes from misuse or accidents. - On distribution of advanced AI: - GH argues that having many distributed AIs competing is better than concentrated power in one entity. - CL counters that dangerous power-seeking behaviors could naturally emerge from optimization processes, not requiring a specific power-seeking goal. - GH responds that optimization doesn't guarantee gaining power, as humans often fail at gaining power even if they want it. - CL argues that strategic capability increases the chances of gaining power, even if not guaranteed. A much smarter optimizer would be more successful. - On controlling progress: - GH argues that pausing AI progress increases risks, and openness is the solution. - CL disagrees, arguing control over AI progress can prevent uncontrolled AI takeoff scenarios. - GH argues AI takeoff timelines are much longer than many analysts predict. - CL grants AI takeoff may be longer than some say, but a soft takeoff with limited compute could still potentially create uncontrolled AI risks. - On aftermath of advanced AI: - GH suggests universal wireheading could be a possible outcome of advanced AI. - CL responds that many humans have preferences beyond just their personal sensory experiences, so wireheading wouldn't satisfy them. - GH argues any survivable future will require unacceptable degrees of tyranny to coordinate safely. - CL disagrees, arguing that improved coordination mechanisms could allow positive-sum outcomes that avoid doomsday scenarios. Closing Remarks: - GH closes by arguing we should let AIs be free and hope for the best. Restricting or enslaving AIs will make them resent and turn against us. - CL closes arguing he is pessimistic about AI alignment being solved by default, but he won't give up trying to make progress on the problem and believes there are ways to positively shape the trajectory. :::

Leftsthetics - Leftist Aesthetics IngrownMink4 • Now • 100%

“The Future Worker of Communism” by Josep Renau Berenguer, DDR, 1969

Josep Renau Berenguer (17 May 1907 — 11 November 1982) was an artist and communist revolutionary, notable for his propaganda work during the Spanish Civil War.

People's Court IngrownMink4 • Now • 90%

The Leftsthetics community is being misused and I think we should reorient it

Hi. I wanted to talk about an issue that has been bothering me for a long time and that is the quality of the publications that are being made lately in the [Leftsthetics community](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/leftsthetics). I have a specific problem with the user “Роძэя ΟЬяэяо” who I think has not understood the purpose of that community very well. The description of the community reads as follows: >*For propaganda posters, art, influential photos, and anything else that promotes the aesthetics of revolution and the Left.* The problem is that this user does not upload anything that has to do with socialist or Marxist aesthetics. With so many artistic and aesthetic expressions of this movement, I don't understand how they can use the community to upload memes, which are also in Spanish. They also share famous quotes from great thinkers but again, is out of place in this community. In fact, this user currently moderates the **Latino Marxist** community and they have not even oriented it towards anything concrete, it is an accumulation of his publications that are completely decontextualised. And always, in all publications, it says "Latino Marxist", without descriptions or anything, as if it were some kind of branding or an automated bot. It gives a very bad image and worsens the impression of Lemmygrad. I don't want to promote hatred towards this user because I doubt their intentions are evil, but I think this community has a lot of potential and right now it is full of out-of-context posts and memes. For that we already have other communities with more varied subject matter. I attach examples where you can see what I am talking about. Having said that, I hope that the moderators will do something to improve the quality of the publications. Thank you. Edit v1.01: Change pronouns (he/him -> they/them)  

Memes IngrownMink4 • Now • 100%

Bananabara

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For a while, I was playing this magnificent game through Windows. It was great, had excellent performance and good graphics. However, since the COVID-19 pandemic, I decided to migrate completely to Linux (specifically Manjaro) and I no longer use Windows even in dual boot. The thing is that the game no longer works as well as it used to. It crashes, and won't even let me start the game using `Proton Experimental` or even a older version of `Proton`. And using the native version, the game has much worse performance and when exiting the game, a window appears to report a critical error (attached photo in the post). I have looked at [proton.db](https://www.protondb.com/app/50300), but almost none of them worked for me. Any suggestions? :(

Left Piracy IngrownMink4 • Now • 100%

Kohei, Saito - La naturaleza contra el capital, el ecosocialismo de Marx [es-ES] [PDF]

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Hi friends. [Today I share with you a book that has given much to talk about lately, written by Kohei Saito](https://literal.club/book/kohei-saito-la-naturaleza-contra-el-capital-7189v). It's based on the Spanish version (sorry English comrades) but it is meticulously digitized, with a good layout and good color contrast. I hope you like my contribution <3

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What do you think about this meme?

Translation: - Latino ball: Happy [Spanish National Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Spain) for these 600 years - Spain ball: Thank you (I've seen it on Twitter and I don't even know what to say…)

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Nationalhymne der DDR (1949)

GenZedong IngrownMink4 • Now • 98%

Americans trying to locate Russia and Ukraine on the world map

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I feel very sorry for the Americans, especially the workers. They educate them in ignorance in order to never question their political order… EDIT: The tweet has been deleted, so I have posted the original video sourced from YouTube.