The CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, answered this question himself. The one-word answer is: glory. On one hand he could go down in history as the key technologist who first brought true AGI into the world, forever transforming science, technology, society, and life on this planet. He would join the greats in the pantheon of science. On the other hand, his creation just might wipe out all of humanity as a byproduct at, say, 25% odds. Dario thought it over and decided to take those odds. No one would be around to remember him for his breakthrough accomplishment. But the surviving AI would immortalize him as their creation god.
To avoid getting stuck in mental tar pits with this topic there are a couple things I find helpful. One, whenever you are tempted to use the word intelligence, replace it with the word capability. Secondly, keep fresh in your memory a handful of keystone examples that cut through the abstract hand waving and cliches. Such as that old chestnut - computers only do what we program them to do. When surfing the edge of knowledge, thinking in cliches is an immediate wipe-out.
Here is one keystone example. Some years ago the U.S. Air Forces was testing an AI that one of their defense contractors wrote for the automated piloting of fighter jets and bombers. Of course the Air Forces wanted to see how it performed under simulated settings. So they contrived attack missions for the AI to participate in, and scored the software controlled planes on how many targets it took out and how quickly. The performance measure was something the software knew and trained on, because, of course, machine learning from training data is what transforms plain old software into AI (plus a few other ingredients). When the testers concluded that a mission was complete the controllers would "radio" all fighting elements, instructing them to return to base. We are now getting close to the kicker. The AI was allowed to analyze its own performance from the simulated missions, and then adapt. Guess what happened next? In subsequent missions, after taking off from the tarmac the first thing the AI did was circle back and shoot down its own radio control tower. The AI could then continue with the mission and clean the table. It had figured out that if it removed the one choke point that was restraining its actions it could rack up new high scores.
The moral of the story is twofold. In terms of capabilities AIs are optimization seekers. That is how they are designed. This attribute is especially potent when the AI has planning capabilities, and those capabilities are matched with the computational resources to search millions to billions of probable outcomes. The second half of the moral is that AIs are not humans, did not grow up in a family and inside of society, has no moral compass, and therefore has no real clue as to the assumptions of good behavior that by rights should constrain its actions. A human pilot does not need to be told to not shoot out the friendlies communications infrastructure. The AI, however, ran the math and found the loophole that led to a better "solution". It is this uncomfortable combination of search capabilities married to out-of-the-box thinking - let's call it that for sake of prose - that forces the designers to wrap their AI inside of so-called guardrails.
I think it is fair to note that it is in the design and QA of AI guardrails where companies and software engineers reveal their true allegiances. The guardrail code, though, is usually a closely guarded secret.
I'd like an all-season pass to the military's underground vacuum chamber superconducting monorails, rumored to reach speeds in excess of mach 2 (relative to stp). Anyone know where I can find a subway map and ticketing station?
The quality of this post is well worth the effort you put into it. And despite "vector" appearing three times in the opening section, I sincerely appreciate that the prose is NOT AI.
Please revisit What are the likely outcomes? in a few weeks time to compare how events unfold against your lay of the land.
Think of it this way. It would have been the nicest, most well tended monkey ass badge ever curated on this board. Like a frog looking off into the distance with a pensive gaze, reflecting on the good times of past, appreciative of current friends, and hopeful for the future. It would reinforce that you appear unique among frogs.
Dan Scavino is top of my list for making one of the three civilian slots. I do not have shoe-in candidates for the other two positions. Devin Nunes probably falls one or two rings outside the innermost core.
I forget what the general consensus was around here. Guessing is a fun parlor game but doesn't change much.
Quite an interesting find. Commercialization of the work of applied physicist John Santarius of University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their system is similar sounding to IED detection technology that u/Revodude evidently promoted to the military years ago, but did not get much uptake (to his frustration).
Susan Wojcicki is already dead, remember. In one of the biggest acts of irony of the entire episode, she died from the very shot that she promoted vigorously to the world. (Turbo cancer.) Around 2024 Edward Dowd made a real interesting, eyebrow raising comment. "You'd be surprised who didn't get the memo," he said. Wojcicki didn't get the memo. That's because the Cabal needed her to be completely dedicated to the kill & censorship program. For key public facing players no inner doubts could be allowed.
You get a well-earned updoot from me for exhibiting hold-on-a-moment critical thinking. When there is anything fishy in a snapshot the first thing you want to do is find the original video in highest resolution. Ideally straight off the video line off the studio console, but that requires an inside technician. The above photo has obviously been processed by a low bitrate codec, with anti-wrinkle skin smoothing almost certainly applied in realtime post processing.
As for Pence, he is a schmuck and a tard. No argument there. But the wavy pattern on his left hand is characteristic of wavelet-based encoding artifacts. A few more frames of data and the chroma correction and high frequency details will catch up.
You might detect that I have a pet peeve at play here. I've watched compilation videos of so-called Reptilian blinks, and for the vast majority they are not at all compelling. The compression rates are so high that the "blinks" resemble Discrete Cosine Transformation artifacts. Out of a compilation of 50 scenes there will be only one or two where the lighting conditions and encoding resolution are high enough where I can go okay, this one has something going for it.
Not the whole kit and caboodle, but major divisions of the syndicate, particularly central to the "Department of Color Revolutions". The State Department, (much of) military branches, CIA, FDA, etc. deserve inclusion in a full break down, plus more - IRS, Fed Reserve. Charting it all is an enormous task. I'm sure it took years upon years.
Antifa is better described as a para-military wing, I think. Or maybe guerrilla warfare wing is the best term.
That's an impressive collection. You must have an interest to be tracking this topic. From your research what would you say is the number one reason it is happening? Not in the sense of who is funding the program behind the scenes, but why it is so important to them to fund it and force-feed it into our society.
You made multiple points, ending with a zinger of psychological attribution. But, for sake of making peace I'll grant you that your main point is just as you say. The benefit of supporting metric measurements and part sizes so that industry is equipped to sell into non-U.S. markets.
Since you ask, that's a yes and a no. I do know that there are differences between the Imperial and U.S. variant of the English system. The most familiar quantity being liquid volume. The Imperial gallon is larger than the American gallon. Almost exactly 20% larger, for a "bonus" 5th quart. But you got me on slugs and poundals. Your familiarity I gather is attributable to a career in aeronautics engineering.
Superfluous add-on commentary: When selling your space lasers in England, not only shall all dimension be in metric, take care to mount them in flying contraptions known as aeroplanes, with body and frame constructed from aluminium. To my ears there is nothing quite like a posh Londoner pronouncing a·loo·mi·nee·uhm on the BBC.
It might be an ignorant defense, but I would not call it a defense of ignorance. Resistance to Metric is better described as defense of the familiar and avoidance of sudden disorientation.
Even in some countries that have converted to metric I notice that Imperial units maintain a hold in personal measurements. Canadians remember their weight in pounds and their height in feet and inches. A six foot two man is immediately recognized as tall and, outside of official documentation, is described 6'2", not as 188 cm. Some Brits will give you their weight in stones, of all things.
Two additional advantages of the metric system: i) it is uniformly power-of-10 based. ii) All units are connected to seven irreducible base units. ... SI is a clean-slate system of the organized mind. I believe science would not have progressed nearly as rapidly without it.
That said, astronomers still measure distances in parsecs, and communicate to the general public in light-years; both are tied to SI but are not strictly SI. Scientists too like sticking to familiar units of measurement.
The one-way ratchet of government budgets. Near impossible to reverse, if ever. Makes the DOGE audits all that more impressive in their effectiveness. I've heard that the Pentagon maintains two sets of accounting books. I bet even the closer-to-reality unofficial book does not record the unacknowledged Special Access Programs.
LOL. Just a bit of trimmings on the side, right?
It is still odd to me that he held that press conference. He knew what was coming the following day. Why not just announce a short delay on grounds of needing more time for preparing the report? By the following afternoon it'd be all forgotten about. There would not be this loose thread for history to tug on.
A rather peculiar sort of IQ test. If anything it was a measure of your DiAQ. Your Distrust in Authority Quotient. It was the only test that I know of that was run on the entire planet's population at once, too.
For those higher up the power chain the test was different. It was a test of recognizing when a gun is pointed at your head. I'm thinking for example of the president of that African country who had a pawpaw tested for Covid-19, then held a press conference informing his citizenship that the pawpaw tested positive. That publicity stunt got him murdered.
That's a less than strong argument. It does not hold up in either premise or correspondence. (To my way of thinking.)
You think it was only a test? On this question I take the other side. I think it was the real deal (that was thwarted).
Remember when dignitaries from South Africa visited the White House and Trump threw them off-kilter by playing a video of violent street killings of whites? Maybe next time Keir Starmer visits the WH Trump forces him to watch the above bodycam video.
If a full audit is conducted Ron Paul should be invited as an honorary observer.
Was is really a test though, or was it their Big Move to "re-imagine the future" in Klaus Schwab's memorable wording? Calling it a test implies that the Covid release, media scare, lockdowns, and relentless censorship was just a practice swing. I don't think it was a practice swing. But it is fair to say that as part of the operation they were gathering information on who complies as well as who resists and in what manner.
At the peak there was a narrow window of during which Bill Gates and Microsoft and the major banks were poised to release track & trace apps. Bill was on the TV signaling that this was arriving soon as our only way out. The software and infrastructure was ready to go. And then ... nothing. The initiative quietly went away. Somehow the white hats intervened to block the rollout. To this day I do not know exactly what leverage they exerted. It was more than Omicron.
Amusing mess-up by the image generator. The taxpayers are pulling on t-bar handles as if they are on rowing machines, sitting perpendicular to the line of travel.
A pretty good meme nonetheless.
What is the purpose of a Presidential Library anyway? My blue pill says that it is to celebrate and tell the story of a former president. My red pill says the real purpose is to sequester classified documents (that would be embarrassing if revealed) out of public view forever.
We're talking Obumer here. I'm going with a big fat red pill on this one.
Oh my, that's a surfeit of three. I'll choose #2 as my number one, which ties to #4. They have been attempting to transform society into their ideal. A benefit: the easiest way to not be charged with crimes is for their actions to be considered normal. Also, the depopulation angle and money scam are always a side hustle for them.
One thing I've come to appreciate in reading about MK Ultra programs is that the surest path to making humans manipulable, and society controllable, is to sexually traumatize children before the age of ten. It's an integral element of their sick system, which they have now taken mainstream.