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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • That AI safety is much more important than AI hurting copyright or artists.

    I say this because the “AI sucks haha” and “AI just steals” retoric is very harmful to AI safety movement as people just don’t believe AGI or even close-to-AGI will be capable enough to harm our society.

    Currently many estimate that there’s 1-20% chance that AGI could end our civilization. So fuck the copyright and fuck the artists when we’re looking at ods like this we need to start preparing now even if it’s 10 years away.

    But alas, nobody can’t think further out than the length of their nose and honestly I’m just hoping we’re lucky enough to be in that 80% because clearly we’re not going to do anything about it.


  • As someone who writes on Medium ocassionally — no.

    Medium like all other blogging platforms has a problem of incentive. The pay is too little for quality writing and there’s always a gamble on whether your article gets views as you don’t control SEO or even formatting for that matter.

    It was always filled with low effor slop because most are either:

    • practicing writing
    • building out their brand which is basically newbies
    • trying to make pennies through low effor churn

    I feel for Medium here as it does have an unsolvable problem really and AI has nothing to do with it.