Here's @BasedBeffJezos's whole e/acc motte & bailey gambit exposed: His first supporter runs for the motte while his second supporter gets caught in the bailey!

Solid thinking on display here, significant probability Cluely might actually succeed

When you start digging into how dumb @BasedBeffJezos is, the rabbit hole goes deep… In this recent clip, Beff is claiming that humanity's ultimate goal should be to trash all resources as fast as possible — slash and burn the entire cosmos to make thermodynamic entropy number go up — BUT that's okay because the process of building a universe-scale furnace will supposedly be precisely the process by which we'll achieve our moral values to the fullest! Seriously, he's claiming that these two objective functions are functionally equivalent: 1. Grow our flourishing civilization beyond earth and fill the universe with life, love, happiness, wonder, creativity, discovery, art, humor, cooperation 2. Turn every ordered configuration of atoms into chaos in the shortest possible time Watch 3:02 in the video to hear it from him: “It's, you know, the same reason life exists. It's much better to conserve and strategically use free energy to secure more free energy, and keep growing, and have some order, rather than just like, burn all in one go and have chaos, right?” Read that again. That's the load-bearing argument that licenses him to equate claims #1 and #2 above. He's saying: Since life on Earth built beautiful complexity while using up the sun's energy, we can just go ahead and extrapolate that, into me leading a movement to extinguish all usable energy sources as rapidly as possible. Earth teaches us that the faster we extinguish all usable energy sources, the better we'll grow a civilization even more flourishing than the one on Earth! Too bad that if you think about it for 5 seconds, the fly in the ointment of his logic is that optimal free-energy-dissipation strategies like "chuck all the matter into a black hole" don't conveniently dovetail with sane goals like growing our flourishing civilization to fill the universe with life and love. Beff's Effective Accelerationism movement successfully got thousands of people to put "e/acc" in their profile without checking too much into the doctrine. These mostly normal, psychologically-healthy people just prefer a government that doesn't stifle the many forms of good tech progress… Unfortunately these people became Beff's useful idiots, considering the outcome he's explicitly trying to accelerate is the universe's heat death. I'm not exaggerating or misrepresenting him here. Homie wants to accelerate the universe's heat death. His core claim that objectives #1 and #2 above are equivalent — a claim which is FACTUALLY FALSE if you ask any physicist — somehow never gets questioned (or even flagged as questionable) by the people who have a chance to interview Beff. One podcast after another sees fit to wager their show's credibility on a guest who can dazzle listeners with smart-sounding jargon for hours, as long as no one dares to ask him why his movement's central claim is as factually false as Jonah and the Whale. But hey, if you don't ask your acolytes to swallow a factually false claim as part of your core doctrine, are you really leading a new religion or “hyperstition” 🙄? No, you're just like the rest of us jockeying for crumbs of AI venture capital *without* the reality-distortion benefit of a social media demagogue halo. Nor are you getting your thin-skinned ego inflated by a vocal minority of tech figures who accepted or looked past your dumb central dogma (“#1 = #2”) while everyone else took 5 seconds to think about it and now thinks you're a laughingstock.

Top 1% content right here! “How China masters manufacturing and how America can catch up” @sdamico @Noahpinion @Econ102_Podcast

What a charlatan @GillVerd / @BasedBeffJezos is. First minute into his hourlong interview about thermodynamic computing, he casually implies the human brain is “operating near the Landauer limit” 🤡 It's actually about 10^8 less efficient. How about some pushback @MLStreetTalk?

The full "Warning Shots" pilot episode with @ForHumanityPod, @liron and me. It's my first public appearance ever. I struggled with that a bit knowing that talking about AI existential dangers openly like that is costly, especially as a family man aiming for a normal life. I was inspired by my cohosts who I admire and if my actions motivate someone out there to also speak out and raise awareness, that impact will make it all worthwhile.

1/ Here are Jack Clark (Anthropic), Shane Legg (Google DeepMind), John Schulman (ex-OpenAI), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) and Elon Musk (xAI), all saying their timelines are less than 5 years long. Links below. 🧵

Amjad was right, great first-principles thinking on display here from Grok

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📣 Check out “Warning Shots”, a new show I'm part of on the @AIRiskNetwork! First episode covers Zuck gunning for superintelligence and GPT's role in @GeoffLewisOrg going psychotic.