I didn't like Machines of Loving Grace that much, because it felt like Dario was responding to the criticism that he was a "doomer" by overcompensating. However, given recent developments, and the credible societal worries emerging, it is worth reflecting on just how incredible AI is. It's clearly the most important, most useful, and most positive-sum technology ever created. The idea that we can outsource problem solving and real-world interaction to non-humans, which can be replicated and spread to assist humans across a variety of domains, is incredible. I love technology, and there is nothing quite like spinning up Clade Code or Cowork and having your computer shave hours of labor off your workflow. Every week AI leads to a further development in science or drug discovery, and the world is rapidly becoming a powerhouse of scientific and technological insight.
The risks are incredibly real and scary, especially once we start discussing superintelligence, but you have to be entirely disconnected from reality to not see the weight of positive potential available with AI, and the elegance and beauty around the corner in many AI-driven human futures. Ignoring this will disconnect you from the true vision of those building the machines of progress, and only with this sort of empathy can one adequately assess risk-reward. If I wasn't so ASI-pilled, and I wasn't so concerned with X and S risk, and power concentration, I would think those campaigning to pause or stop AI progress are absolutely bonkers. I think you can only really do good work in AI governance if you have the view that advancing AI could lead to an extraordinary positive for all of humanity, as to deny this is to deny both epistemic humility and reality itself.
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