Joscha Bach

As we all know, free speech is everyone's constitutional right, but it also causes a lot of harm. But that does not have to be a problem. Here is how to solve all issues with free speech! Why not deal with the 1st amendment in the same way as we here in California deal with the #LibertadDeExpresión #PrimeraEnmienda #California #US #CA

@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

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.

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:

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

@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

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.

Anthropic and OpenAI cannot become profitable unless they can reduce the ratio of training cost to inference profits. In the long run, their survival may depend on outlawing competitive open source models. This can only be done under the guise of safety regulation. #AI #OpenSource #Profitability #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.