Mike Solana

It's suspicious so many people in astronomy are suddenly worried about this.

Should we use Don't Look Up as a reference point? Mike Solana says no because it was written about climate change, as per word of God.

True, but as a movie about climate change, it is ham-fisted and bad, and would be even if climate change was much worse than it is, whereas the metaphors work vastly better with AI.

I invoke death of the author.

Robotaxis are very cool, but there's probably going to be a weird equilibrium where human drivers have some competitive advantage because they're less strict about following speed limits and traffic laws.

Mike Solana.

Waymo already increased aggression.

Down in LA especially, drivers wouldn't let them out of four-way stops.

There is still time for the pebbles to vote, for now.

Mike Solana gave the correct view of why Coxon's post went viral, which is that enough Americans finally have enough context on AI to care, and there were enough big accounts that were happy to amplify the tweet quickly to get it initial attention.

That is all you need when there is enough dry tinder.

What we must realize is that the current preference cascade on the need to pace the frontier is insufficient.

Gabe and Waydye keep the torch alive for thinking about how we might actually try to solve for the full problem of Long Horizon Agency or put ourselves on a path to solving it.

Two kinds of threats.

Mike Solana is exactly right here that we need to differentiate between positions like those of Yudkowsky and Dye, where if we build superintelligence any time soon, the odds of death are close to 100% versus those that warn that it might be fatal with terms like 10% or 10% or more.

Sometimes landing on 10% is done in principled ways, sometimes it isn't.

I, I believe that one weighs about 20 ounces, the latest issue.

And, and so the, part of the reason I subscribed, first off, right off the bat, I think it was Mike Solana, friend of the program, he's been on-

Yep

... here a bunch of times, uh, told me that, like, "Hey, this is something exciting that's happening." I was a day-one subscriber.

Choices that should be made not just by the companies involved, but by all of us.

Obama then announced Project Blueprint, an initiative from Ron Conway's venture capital firm, with the stated goal to, quote, "rebuild bonds between leaders in the artificial intelligence sector and Democrats who are demanding new rules to regulate the technology." Pirate Wires' Mike Solana wrote, "There is no averting it now.

AI safety is politically polarizing as we enter the midterm.

Incentives to both drive people into hysterics and to obscure real risk are now too high to stop.

right.

So, yes, the first topic of the Return of the Pirate Warriors podcast will sadly be one of the most tragic days in American history, as today is, like Solana mentioned, the 25th anniversary of 9-11.

It can't all be laughs, people.

But nevertheless, there is much to discuss on this somber occasion.

I'm wondering if it's just true.

I don't know, Riley, what would you simulate? What is a reality you would like to simulate?

I mean, going full circle, I'd like to simulate the reality of America pre 9-11, which you were talking so fondly about, Solana.

And to your point, if AI does lead us to a post-internet world, maybe that is actually in store for us.