https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-co-founder-sutskevers-new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-raises-1-billion-2024-09-04/

http://web.archive.org/web/20240904174555/https://ssi.inc/

I have nothing witty or insightful to say, but figured this probably deserved a post. I flipped a coin between sneerclub and techtakes.

They aren’t interested in anything besides “superintelligence” which strikes me as an optimistic business strategy. If you are “cracked” you can join them:

We are assembling a lean, cracked team of the world’s best engineers and researchers dedicated to focusing on SSI and nothing else.

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I’m thinking this is a POSIWID kind of deal. The mission statement of this company should just be: “A. I. Money please!”

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or “AI! Money, please?”, in the most extreme conductor voice possible

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Eliezer is skeptical, can find flaw in any alignment strategy in 2 minutes: https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1803676608320192617

If you have an alignment plan I can’t shoot down in 120 seconds, let’s hear it. So far you have not said anything different from the previous packs of disaster monkeys who all said exactly this almost verbatim, but I’m open to hearing better.

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is… is yud one of the disaster monkeys? or are we supposed to forget he spent a bunch of years running and renaming an institute that tried and failed to do this exact same alignment grift?

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yud is the uniquely capable person in this area. anyone who even sets foot in it should make groveling to him a high priority. these people are disaster monkeys because they aren’t doing that

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also, xcancel

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Lol. The obvious pump and dump scheme is working as intended.

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Well look if you no longer had a Silicon Valley executive’s salary you might have opinions about that situation too.

Weird sort of wartime to be investing new dollars into Israel though I thought?

Oh wait right. https://bdsmovement.net/news/israel’s-most-important-source-capital-california

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It’s called “safe superintelligence” because they want investors to sign SAFE agreements and feel very smart about it.

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