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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

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Looks like both the feds and state law enforcement / intelligence agencies are tracking the Zizians now.

WIRED: Anti-Tech Extremism

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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

While the Zizian ideology is extremist in nature,** a less extreme version of the same fears surrounding the cataclysmic potential of AI are a common concern among AI alignment experts, machine learning engineers, and even frontier AI companies**. Nonetheless, the Intelligence Bureau warns that "paranoid views regarding AI" may proliferate in the aftermath of the Zizians' trial, thanks to their "attempt to reason the belief that a godlike incarnation of AI is imminent," and belief that "humans must best use their time in the present to devote themselves to ensuring its compliance with human morality, or face existential consequences for failing to do so."

And so on and so forth, a good part of the article is about how the feds are afraid that once the trial gets going basically people will think Ziz is making too much sense and anti-AI-infrastructure violence escalates.

Yud, despite his near-infinite IQ, will apparently be the last one to suspect that grassroots organized violence is an incredibly obvious short-term solution to the alleged problem he's spent most of his life beating the drum about.

And let's not forget that ridiculous AI2027 assertion that people who are faced with almost certain annihilation should not pursue extreme uncooperative actions.

[–] lurker@awful.systems 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

The whole title of Yuds book also isnt going to help.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It helps that most of their audience seems incapable of considering that non-market driven societal change could be possible, better spend a fuckton of philanthropy money to buy a castle in case it helps indoctrinate a John Galt type to argue AI safety on our behalf, that'll solve everything.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago

they have been watching spacey odessey one too many time.