Completely unsurprised. They always had that vibe

Bostrom’s conclusion is that we should colonize the universe as soon as possible

because colonialism has never caused any damage to any kind of ethnic group or environment whatsoever and has never resulted in any kind of horrific crime such as genocide and slavery. no sirree!

Ah, that one AI2027 blog post where they tried to convince people not to commit terrorism by opening the article by talking about how man’s fate may be sealed in two years time. Incredibly smart idea.

This new effort follows President Donald Trump’s National Security Presidential Memo 7, which instructs the Department of Justice to target anyone holding “anti-American,” “anti-Christian,” and "anti-capitalism” beliefs.

well this whole read was a reminder about how much of an AI bootlicker Trump is.

So apparently using the allegedly world-ending machine to tell you who to vote for is perfectly fine and dandy?

This guy was the main writer of AI 2027 mind you, how can he be so stupid? (don’t answer that, we all know already)

Huh, interesting. Those slogans are also rather “interesting”

”we need better messengers”

Is he realising that showing up to a debate in a sparkly fedora and goggles is not going to make people take him seriously?

The marketing mentions “a sprinkling of AI experts” even though Yud’s position on Twitter is that he is not an AI expert.

wait really? He actually said he’s not an expert?

Jeez, I hope you’re okay. Do you have any thoughts on the uptick in rationalism and its influence (thanks to AI)?

Wait, if im recalling right a former StopAI activist went on the run after threatening an OpenAI lab and causing it to shut down, it mentions the suspect has threatened an OpenAI lab before so could it be the same guy??

oh cool, a racist wacko. yay…

Well this is out now, and I’m surprised to announce the ratings went down from 7.5 from 7.1 on imdb and only 60/100 on Metacritic, though there are only 9 critic reviews and 5 user reviews, which itself is surprising for being so little. Rotten Tomatoes is higher, but only 38 critic reviews and over 50 ratings. I’m surprised it seems to be so unpopular, I thought it’d be blowing up with hundreds of ratings

Damn, that is way, way bigger than I thought

The other guy is probably right that its a case of AI fanatics using chatbots to summarise what its about without actually engaging with it in any meaningful way (liking and commenting)

well thats fucking depressing to think about. You’re probably right tho

Thank you for your rigorous scientific studying stranger

Hooray…still thinking about how apparently the OpenAI and Anthropic PR teams were impressed with this doc, which is a pretty clear indicator of what it’s going to be like

the reviews on imdb have dropped a bit (from 8.3 down to 7.5) but that’ll probably change when the full thing drops

Also is it just me or does the trailer have a suspiciously large views vs likes ratio? 5.6mil views with only 6.7K likes? is that the norm for documentaries?

but right now it doesn’t feel like LW is a place where I can collaboratively make intellectual progress on this very important topic.

Maybe that’s because people don’t feel comfortable when you say you should teach an AI race/iq pseudoscience???

Damn, she went in on Yud (not that he doesn’t deserve it)

I also found this article about the doc in the replies of that post https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/a-tale-of-two-ai-documentaries/ and it’s a very interesting read

I poked around the IMDB page, and there are reviews! currently it’s sitting at a 8.5/10 with 31 ratings (though no written reviews it seems like) the metacritic score is a 51/100 with 4 reviews and there are 4 external reviews

Sam Altman and the other CEOS being there is such a joke “this technology is so dangerous guys! of course I’m gonna keep blocking regulation for it, I need to make money after all!” Also, I’m shocked Emily Bender and Timmit Gebru are there, aren’t they AI skeptics?

Surprised it’s a term they stole and not one they made up. But yeah the whole idea of “AGI will solve all our problems” is just silly