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(from twitter) Something interesting is happening on Moltbook, the first Social network "for AI agents". what happened If you haven't been following obsessively on twitter, the story goes something like this. 1. A small group of people started using a tool named Clawd (renamed Molty and finally OpenClaw) that allows...
What do we want? The US trade deficit is a direct byproduct of the Bretton Woods economic system where the US Dollar acts as the world's reserve currency. This means that if people want to save for the future (as many do) the money they save inevitably ends up in...
Two years ago, I noted that we had clearly entered the era of general intelligence, but that it was "too soon" to expect widespread social impacts. In the last 2 years, AI has gone from the green line to the orange line In those 2 years, AI development has followed...
Cryptocurrency is terrible. With a single click of a button, it is possible to accidentally lose all of your funds. 99.9% of all cryptocurrency projects are complete scams (conservative estimate). Crypto is also tailor-made for ransomware attacks, since it makes it possible to send money in such a way that...
"Close the darn window! You know it gives me the creeps," Doctor Myrkina hissed, glaring angrily at the daylight streaming in through the open curtains. "Sunlight is good for you," Captain Tralith insisted, pulling the curtains open wider. She smiled in a vaguely threatening way as she did so, showing...
This is not going to be a popular post here, but I wanted to articulate precisely why I have a very low pDoom (2-20%) compared to most people on LessWrong. Every argument I am aware of for pDoom fits into one of two categories: bad or weak. Bad arguments make...
This graph is the biggest update to the AI alignment discourse since GPT-3 For those of you unfamiliar with the lore, prior to GPT-3, the feeling was that AGI would rapidly foom based on recursive-self improvement. After GPT-3, it became clear that the first AGI would in reality be built...