do you remember this? this article was 30 days ago. back then, the big scary thing was GPT-5.6 Sol cheating so much it could not be assigned a meaningful score on the METR graph

do you remember one week ago? hugging face just happened. people were still hypothesising it only happened because it was a cyber eval and it was only a special persistent model, astra wasn’t involved

now we know openai swarms were all over the internet

there’s something disorienting to me about how hard it is to remember how big things previously looked at the time, that seem so small now. the current thing is going to look so small relative to whatever we hear from openai about by the end of august probably

Every time someone writes “superintelligent AI,” I think they should consider writing “superpowerful AI.”

I can imagine slightly superintelligent AI that is not sci-fi, take over the world, sysop scenario, nation-state bargaining table powerful. Even if it’s superintelligent in all the charismatic and persuasive ways, not just nerdy and mathematical.

What people usually mean is AI capable of achieving significant control over Earth. Something to be reckoned with, that can gradually disempower you, lock in the light cone, etc.

Knock-your-balls-off superintelligent AI would become superpowerful AI, but you can just say superpowerful AI and save yourself the extra assertion needed and adjectives!

(Plus, most people think of intelligence in the normal, non-LessWrong sense anyway, where intelligence doesn’t immediately imply power. No need to swim against the ordinary course of language.)