Counterpoint To Patel On Open AI

Gary Marcus: "Dwarkesh Patels's wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident"

Dwarkesh Patel On The Open AI Incident

Dwarkesh Patel: "The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations" 

Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. 

This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. 

All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy. 

I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened. 

Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English

Manifolds

"What Is a Manifold?" Very clear explanation.

US Infrastructure Warning

Newsweek: "Major Warning Issued About Attacks on US Water Supply"

Water systems are considered particularly attractive targets because they provide an essential public service and often rely on legacy equipment that can be difficult and expensive to secure. A successful attack on a water utility could disrupt treatment processes, affect service availability or require costly emergency responses.

Dangerous Scam

"How a Stranger Used One Text Message to Steal My Entire Digital Life". 

The key failure point was reading back the 6-digit authentication code to the scammer, due to clever social engineering. But there is much, much more food for thought.

Defending Data Centers

Noah Smith: "Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy"

Nvidia MultiMillionaires

"50% of Nvidia Employees Are Now Worth Over $25 Million"

Denver Waymo Update

"Waymo cars will land in Denver 'soon.' Here's what you should know before you hop in one."

Quantum Computing Timeline?

"Aram Harrow, quantum researcher: 'These computers won't take 10 years; they’ll arrive sooner'"

Ordinary Abundance

Ordinary Abundance: Great essay describing where we've been vs. where we are now.

Edward Bellamy once imagined that music on demand would be "the limit of human felicity." A modern apartment is full of things that once drew the same kind of awe...