Comment by Convolutions (adam-nelles-boulton) on The Manhattan Trap: Why a Race to Artificial Superintelligence is Self-Defeating · 2025-01-22T06:54:30.860Z · LW · GW

Very informative piece that does a lot in the right direction.  Articles like this can have a real impact on policy demonstrating “there be dragons”.

A criticism would be that it doesn’t account for the state of the board in reality - the trust dilemma fails under circumstances where domestic commercial incentives overwhelm international cooperative concerns and collapses the situation to a prisoners dilemma, unfortunately, I think. I hope there are trust based solutions, and I’m mistaken. 

Comment by Convolutions (adam-nelles-boulton) on Everywhere I Look, I See Kat Woods · 2025-01-16T05:45:47.548Z · LW · GW

I’ve noticed lately /r/singularity has been much more safety-pilled compared to six months ago. I think this should be welcomed. 

This post feels like divisiveness bait (tyranny of small differences etc) to split communities that are starting to group together, which is to be expected when even traditionally very accelerationist communities are less so now looking at the facts and bump against capital inertia. 

Also, this whole saga feels bot-ish and manufactured, but that’s just a vibe…