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Joscha Bach

@Plinz wrld.org
cognitive scientist
Joscha Bach 10h

The author argued that global warming brought major problems but could spare humanity the next ice age, which they said was already ramping up. They wrote that air conditioning, rising sea levels, shifting biomes, unstable weather and indoor agriculture would be easier to manage than miles of ice covering the land.

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Joscha Bach 4d

The author claimed that OpenAI had possessed full-duplex speech-to-speech technology for several years but had chosen not to release it. They also said Google had done the same, adding that the company made significant AI progress public only when competitors forced it to.

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Joscha Bach 2w

The author said US car regulation moved extremely slowly, noting that the car industry had petitioned regulators in 2019 to allow cameras instead of mirrors but that there had been no progress six years later. They also said adaptive matrix headlights had existed since 2013 but remained mostly illegal in the US in 2026. #CarRegulations #AutomotiveIndustry #Innovation #US

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Joscha Bach 2w

The author quoted Woody Allen as saying humanity faced a historic crossroads, with one path leading to despair and the other to extinction, and expressed hope that people would choose wisely.

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Joscha Bach 3w

The author wrote that free speech was a constitutional right for everyone but could also cause significant harm, which they said did not have to be a problem. They asked why the First Amendment could not be handled in the same way as something in California, but did not complete the comparison. #LibertadDeExpresión #PrimeraEnmienda #California #US #CA

Joscha Bach 4w

@Coach__Brandon @itsDanielSuarez The entire US healthcare system that artificially limits the number of licensed providers, allows providers to charge whatever, and insurance to charge you whatever plus X, while nobody is allowed to set up a competing system… argh. A large part of US GDP is just extortion. #Healthcare #USEconomy #Insurance #US

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Joscha Bach 4w

Shit, Gary Marcus predicts that there is no way AI kills absolutely everyone. Given his track record, we are dead in two years #AI #GaryMarcus #FuturePredictions #Therearenospecificcountrycodesmentionedinthetweetyouprovided.

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Joscha Bach Sep 25

The claim that "LLMs cannot think" is unscientific, unless supported by a very difficult argument about non equivalence of causal structure producing anthropomorphic outputs. The claim requires a formally rigorous definition of thinking that captures how humans mentally #LLMs #ArtificialIntelligence #CognitiveScience #Nospecificcountrycodesfound.

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Joscha Bach Sep 24

We urgently need to stop AI. Did you hear that AI just hacked the government, the banks and the media? In fact, this very tweet #StopAI #CyberSecurity #WakeUp #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeidentifiedinthetweet.

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Joscha Bach Sep 24

I am part of a generation who rewrote whatever parts of the home computer OS were too slow or incomplete. Once local models catch up we can fully own our computers again #TechRevolution #OpenSource #DigitalOwnership #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #theresponsewouldbe:

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Joscha Bach Sep 21

Many people think that LLMs are limited by human training data, but pretraining is just establishing a common sense baseline. Most compute goes into reinforcement learning now, allowing models to move beyond the human level by exploring themselves, just as they did with Go. #LLMs #ReinforcementLearning #AIExploration #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #theresponseis: (Nocountrycodes)

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Joscha Bach Sep 19

Out of personal experience and observation, the largest detrimental effect on the mental health of today’s children is not social media, but school. Nothing has as big of an impact on depression, anxiety, dysphoria, suicidality, bullying etc. as a bad school vs. a good one #MentalHealth #Education #ChildWellbeing #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeidentifiedinthetweet.

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Joscha Bach Sep 19

Not that there are still many philosophers who deny that current or future AI systems represent minds, and they are technically not yet proven wrong by frontier models. However, their position has become much harder to defend. #AI #Philosophy #Mindness #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

Joscha Bach Sep 19

In my view, the failure of academic philosophy, not only to predict AI, but by actively misleading the public mind about what was to come, should give us pause and reason to reflect about the state of the best academic thinking. #Philosophy #AI #CriticalThinking #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

Joscha Bach Sep 19

I disagree with the doomer position: I believe that we need to build powerful AI to solve the problems our civilization is facing, and that we will be able to control it. Also, most of the doomers are sincere, intelligent and have the best intentions, I regard many as friends. #AI #Progress #Optimism #Nospecificcountrycodesfound.

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Joscha Bach Sep 18

The reason why academics, individuals and small startups can play with AI are open weights models. The future looks pretty dire for decentralized open source AI, because there is a large and well funded lobby against them, and very little organization to lobby for them. #OpenAI #Decentralization #AIEthics #Nospecificcountrycodescanbeidentifiedinthetweet.

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Joscha Bach Sep 17

Nobody is planning to stop or pause AI. Big tech companies and governments will be improving and using frontier AI as a matter of course. But a lot of people are aiming to keep capable AI models out of the hands of the general public. #AI #BigTech #EthicsInAI #Nocountrycodesarerelevanttothecontentofthetweetprovided.

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Joscha Bach Sep 17

@simone_m_romeo I don't believe that the current discourse is actually about safety. Safety is a fig leaf for different interests. FLI and the other doomer orgs use massive funds to stop AI completely. NYT and other media orgs want to take down the tech industry. Socialist politicians want to #AISafety #TechIndustry #Doomerism #N/A

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Joscha Bach Sep 16

I wish people would notice that the safety scare is not driven by people outside of the big labs, but directly from their leadership. The "whistleblowers" are plants that are amplified from within the labs, and supported by the CEOs. The goal is to capture the regulators, which #SafetyConcerns #LabLeadership #WhistleblowerImpact #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.Therefore #theresponseisempty.

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Joscha Bach Sep 16

The future of AI research in the US depends on who pays the larger bribe to the president. I hope @pmarca, @finkd and @elonmusk understand what has to be done #AI #Research #Bribery #US

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