The Guardian, reporters, and quoted experts getting paid obscene amounts of money for doom articles. Daniel Kokotajlo is making a killing selling this narrative:
Thomas Larsen is the one behind the recent Reuters article and website that "discovered" the OpenAI wiki posting incident. I say "discovered", because him and Daniel obviously have insiders who are sharing information with them, and then getting paid to leak this information.
Sabine Hossenfelder being offered payments for doomer videos:
I recently posted that “Big Tech Wants To Br Your Bible Translator”.
Each industry has its own challenges with AI. The YouVersion CEO is vocal about his belief that GenAI isn’t suitable for many use cases. I can see why they’d want to control that narrative.
Did you read the article and the X thread? It is all tied to Anthropic. "Propaganda" is a more accurate description than "statements" when we're talking about paying bribes to religious NGO's for theological framing around AI and as a means for political connections and sway.
"The Future of Life Institute mobilized religious connections to support Anthropic and sway the Trump admin"
It's gotten to the point where I expect anyone who makes rose-colored glasses claims about AI to be on the take. Trillions of dollars are stake here. What's a few million here and there to help force the outcome you need?
There is funding for pro-AI as well, but the overwhelming majority of it is being funnelled into the doomer movement. Anthropic in particular is funding the opposite of pro-AI narratives and to promote the idea that AI is going to kill everyone unless it's heavily regulated. They've been trying for regulatory capture since the very beginning.
The Future of Life has funded 30 projects to develop AI safety content since launching a digital media accelerator last year. The application form on the nonprofit's website says it plans to spend $100,000 a month.
Anthropic's perspective is that if the open-weight models and open-source ecosystem is allowed to flourish, they'll lose trillions of dollars. They're desperate to do anything they can to prevent it from happening.
I think this assertion needs evidence as it seems more probable to me that the rich are anti-religious. In any country where Christianity is the main religion it is a very unattractive belief for the rich (the "eye of the needle", "root of all evil" and "give all you have to the poor" ethos). Most other religions are suspicious of wealth too (to a Buddhist it is an attachment) In the UK we had a recent prime minister (Tony Blair) who concealed his religious beliefs. In the US JD Vance has been illustrating how difficult it is for a person in power to reconcile that with mainstream religious belief.
Of course you preface all this with the assumption that you are right about reality yourself which is a whole other argument.
Religion contains delusion, but it also tends to contain centuries of philosophy, and a set of guidelines to living life. Irreligious people tend to keep the delusion part, and throw all the rest away.
Yep, but that's a third rail here -- plenty of otherwise intelligent people drank the kool aid (likely by their parents).
It needs to be understood by all citizens of the United States that there is an active effort to make it into a Christo-Fascist country. The current regime is all in on this.
Some more juice:
The Guardian, reporters, and quoted experts getting paid obscene amounts of money for doom articles. Daniel Kokotajlo is making a killing selling this narrative:
https://x.com/brianchau57/status/2095128785955987698/photo/1
Thomas Larsen is the one behind the recent Reuters article and website that "discovered" the OpenAI wiki posting incident. I say "discovered", because him and Daniel obviously have insiders who are sharing information with them, and then getting paid to leak this information.
Sabine Hossenfelder being offered payments for doomer videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPdmYMHrWKg
Aren't Guardian's journalists full time employees? Why is their salary being paid by an outside entity?
Not the journalists. The "experts" they are interviewing.
Edit: I was wrong. The journalists are also part time and work elsewhere:
https://www.tarbellcenter.org/team/aisha-down
https://www.effort.news/tarbell
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I recently posted that “Big Tech Wants To Br Your Bible Translator”.
Each industry has its own challenges with AI. The YouVersion CEO is vocal about his belief that GenAI isn’t suitable for many use cases. I can see why they’d want to control that narrative.
https://jaisenmathai.com/faith-and-ai/big-tech-wants-to-be-y...
Influence network graph with many more connections: https://ai-fli.stupidlabs.lol/
Edit: updating with more nodes and connections... the graph will not load for next 5 minutes..
Edit: done ... more nodes and connections now.
Wow, this is a great tool.
The headline is:
“AI Safety Donors Paid Religious NGOs $3.3M for Statements on AI”
The headline above states:
“Anthropic & friends…”
It’s at best a misleading change, though the article merits discussion.
Did you read the article and the X thread? It is all tied to Anthropic. "Propaganda" is a more accurate description than "statements" when we're talking about paying bribes to religious NGO's for theological framing around AI and as a means for political connections and sway.
"The Future of Life Institute mobilized religious connections to support Anthropic and sway the Trump admin"
Series A Lead: Skype co-founder and Future of Life Institute co-founder/board member Jaan Tallinn personally led Anthropic's $124 million Series A funding round in May 2021 through his philanthropic/investment circles. [1] (https://siliconvalleyinvestclub.com/ar/investors/future-of-l...), [2] (https://dealroom.co/news/145208-anthropics-124m-series-a-cam...)
They're all in bed together.
HN guidelines say to use the actual title and to not editorialize it.
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More info on X:
https://x.com/beffjezos/status/2096011033144095176
https://x.com/brianchau57/status/2096010406330556731
It's gotten to the point where I expect anyone who makes rose-colored glasses claims about AI to be on the take. Trillions of dollars are stake here. What's a few million here and there to help force the outcome you need?
There is funding for pro-AI as well, but the overwhelming majority of it is being funnelled into the doomer movement. Anthropic in particular is funding the opposite of pro-AI narratives and to promote the idea that AI is going to kill everyone unless it's heavily regulated. They've been trying for regulatory capture since the very beginning.
The Future of Life has funded 30 projects to develop AI safety content since launching a digital media accelerator last year. The application form on the nonprofit's website says it plans to spend $100,000 a month.
Anthropic's perspective is that if the open-weight models and open-source ecosystem is allowed to flourish, they'll lose trillions of dollars. They're desperate to do anything they can to prevent it from happening.
I remember at one of the Black Lives Matter protests seeing someone with a sign like “Tax Cuts for Paid Protesters!”
Let me know if you ever meet someone whose source of wealth was “HackerNews AI Astroturfer”.
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Religion is dumb. The religious ruin reality.
Our one experience is being ruined by people with false ideas about life and the nature of reality.
The 1% are mostly religious, there is so much money in churches and politics and the backbone of many nations is still the religious base.
Think about how much better the world would be if everyone knew this was it.
> The 1% are mostly religious
I think this assertion needs evidence as it seems more probable to me that the rich are anti-religious. In any country where Christianity is the main religion it is a very unattractive belief for the rich (the "eye of the needle", "root of all evil" and "give all you have to the poor" ethos). Most other religions are suspicious of wealth too (to a Buddhist it is an attachment) In the UK we had a recent prime minister (Tony Blair) who concealed his religious beliefs. In the US JD Vance has been illustrating how difficult it is for a person in power to reconcile that with mainstream religious belief.
Of course you preface all this with the assumption that you are right about reality yourself which is a whole other argument.
Religion contains delusion, but it also tends to contain centuries of philosophy, and a set of guidelines to living life. Irreligious people tend to keep the delusion part, and throw all the rest away.
Yep, but that's a third rail here -- plenty of otherwise intelligent people drank the kool aid (likely by their parents).
It needs to be understood by all citizens of the United States that there is an active effort to make it into a Christo-Fascist country. The current regime is all in on this.