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  1. 7小时前

    “Musings on Reported Cost of Compute (Oct 2025)” by Vladimir_Nesov

    There are many ways in which costs of compute get reported. A 1 GW datacenter site costs $10-15bn in the infrastructure (buildings, cooling, power), plus $30-35bn in compute hardware (servers, networking, labor), assuming Nvidia GPUs. Useful life of the infrastructure is about 10-15 years, and with debt financing a developer only needs to ensure it's paid off over those 10-15 years, which comes out at $1-2bn per year. For the compute hardware, the useful life is taken as about 5 years, which gives $6-7bn per year. Operational expenses (electricity, maintenance) are about $2.0-2.5bn per year. In total, 1 GW of compute costs about $9-11bn per year, but whoever paid the compute hardware capex needs to ensure the payments continue for 5 years, so a contract for 1 GW of compute will be 5 years long, which makes it a single contract for at least $45-55bn, which might become [...] --- Outline: (02:22) Non-Nvidia Hardware (03:29) Model Sizes in 2026 --- First published: October 24th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oPWB7SBn5j6Nw8RSX/musings-on-reported-cost-of-compute-oct-2025 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    5 分钟

  2. 7小时前

    [Linkpost] “LW Reacts pack for Discord/Slack/etc” by plex

    This is a link post. Ever wanted to say Scout Mindset to someone on a chat platform, but didn't want to have to type 13 characters? Or wanted your server to have magically better epistemics because of a few images? The LW Reactions Pack is here to help! With 63 images (or 37 for the cut down budget set of good ones if you're limited), we guarantee you will have more reaction options than you started with. Full Pack (63) Important only (37) --- First published: October 24th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eq2gYhZvuDrMpuhSc/lw-reacts-pack-for-discord-slack-etc Linkpost URL:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NhEtVqHYnN-oHCwUzgVFMiXwsvQ_pySy?usp=sharing --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    1 分钟

  3. 11小时前

    “Regardless of X, you can still just sign superintelligence-statement.org if you agree” by Ishual

    TL;DR: you can still just sign this statement if you agree with it. It still matters, and you can clarify your position in a statement of support (600 characters) next to your name, and you can clarify your actual full position on LW and/or elsewhere. Regardless of X, you can still just sign. (for various values of X...) X= whether you agree with me that safety researchers have a duty to take a public stance. If you agree with the statement and you are working at a lab where some of your coworkers signed, please consider that signing make it less personally costly for them to have signed. X= whether you agreed with signing a more detailed longer statement that included many more things lots of folks agree on. Indeed, for many specific reasons I tried to address in the past post, seems like https://superintelligence-statement.org/ addresses those [...] --- Outline: (00:29) Regardless of X, you can still just sign. (for various values of X...) (02:22) Examples of statements of support: (05:35) You can still just sign The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: October 24th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oYmcHhEFZm3WPa7j5/regardless-of-x-you-can-still-just-sign-superintelligence --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    6 分钟

  4. 12小时前

    “New Statement Calls For Not Building Superintelligence For Now” by Zvi

    Building superintelligence poses large existential risks. Also known as: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Where ‘it’ is superintelligence, and ‘dies’ is that probably everyone on the planet literally dies. We should not build superintelligence until such time as that changes, and the risk of everyone dying as a result, as well as the risk of losing control over the future as a result, is very low. Not zero, but far lower than it is now or will be soon. Thus, the Statement on Superintelligence from FLI, which I have signed. Context: Innovative AI tools may bring unprecedented health and prosperity. However, alongside tools, many leading AI companies have the stated goal of building superintelligence in the coming decade that can significantly outperform all humans on essentially all cognitive tasks. This has raised concerns, ranging from human economic obsolescence and disempowerment, losses of freedom, civil liberties [...] --- Outline: (02:02) A Brief History Of Prior Statements (03:51) This Third Statement (05:08) Who Signed It (07:27) Pushback Against the Statement (09:05) Responses To The Pushback (12:32) Avoid Negative Polarization But Speak The Truth As You See It --- First published: October 24th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QzY6ucxy8Aki2wJtF/new-statement-calls-for-not-building-superintelligence-for --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    14 分钟

  5. 13小时前

    “AI #139: The Overreach Machines” by Zvi

    The big release this week was OpenAI giving us a new browser, called Atlas. The idea of Atlas is that it is Chrome, except with ChatGPT integrated throughout to let you enter agent mode and chat with web pages and edit or autocomplete text, and that will watch everything you do and take notes to be more useful to you later. From the consumer standpoint, does the above sound like a good trade to you? A safe place to put your trust? How about if it also involves (at least for now) giving up many existing Chrome features? From OpenAI's perspective, a lot of that could have been done via a Chrome extension, but by making a browser some things get easier, and more importantly OpenAI gets to go after browser market share and avoid dependence on Google. I’m going to stick with using Claude [...] --- Outline: (02:01) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility (03:07) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility (04:52) Huh, Upgrades (05:24) On Your Marks (10:15) Language Barrier (12:50) From ChatGPT, a Chinese answer to the question about which qualities children should have: (13:30) ChatGPT in English on the same question: (15:17) Choose Your Fighter (17:19) Get My Agent On The Line (18:54) Fun With Media Generation (23:09) Copyright Confrontation (25:19) You Drive Me Crazy (35:31) They Took Our Jobs (44:06) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (44:42) Get Involved (45:33) Introducing (47:15) In Other AI News (48:30) Show Me the Money (51:03) So You've Decided To Become Evil (53:18) Quiet Speculations (56:11) People Really Do Not Like AI (57:18) The Quest for Sane Regulations (01:00:55) Alex Bores Launches Campaign For Congress (01:03:33) Chip City (01:10:17) The Week in Audio (01:13:00) Rhetorical Innovation (01:16:17) Don't Take The Bait (01:27:29) Do You Feel In Charge? (01:29:30) Tis The Season Of Evil (01:34:45) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone (01:36:00) The Lighter Side --- First published: October 23rd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qC3M3x2FwiG2Qm7Jj/ai-139-the-overreach-machines --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    1 小时 38 分钟

  6. 22小时前

    “Plan 1 and Plan 2” by Towards_Keeperhood

    Max Tegmark recently published a post "Which side of the AI safety community are you in?", where he carves the AI safety community into 2 camps: Camp A) "Race to superintelligence safely”: People in this group typically argue that "superintelligence is inevitable because of X”, and it's therefore better that their in-group (their company or country) build it first. X is typically some combination of “Capitalism”, “Molloch”, “lack of regulation” and “China”. Camp B) “Don’t race to superintelligence”: People in this group typically argue that “racing to superintelligence is bad because of Y”. Here Y is typically some combination of “uncontrollable”, “1984”, “disempowerment” and “extinction”. I think this framing is counterproductive. Instead, here's the oversimplified framing that I prefer: Plan 1: Try to get international coordination to stop the race to superintelligence, and then try to put humanity on a better trajectory so we can safely build aligned superintelligence [...] The original text contained 6 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: October 24th, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7xCxz36Jx3KxqYrd9/plan-1-and-plan-2 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    6 分钟

  7. 1天前

    “How an AI company CEO could quietly take over the world” by Alex Kastner

    Cross-posted from the AI Futures Project Substack. This post outlines a concrete scenario for how takeover by an AI company CEO might go, which I developed during MATS with the AI Futures Project. It represents one plausible story among a few that seem roughly equally likely to me. I’m interested in feedback and discussion. If the future is to hinge on AI, it stands to reason that AI company CEOs are in a good position to usurp power.[1] This didn’t quite happen in our AI 2027 scenarios. In one, the AIs were misaligned and outside any human's control; in the other, the government semi-nationalized AI before the point of no return, and the CEO was only one of several stakeholders in the final oversight committee (to be clear, we view the extreme consolidation of power into that oversight committee as a less-than-desirable component of that ending). Nevertheless, it seems [...] --- Outline: (03:50) July 2027: OpenBrain's CEO fears losing control (07:03) August 2027: The invisible coup (09:09) Rest of 2027: Government oversight arrives--but too late (10:51) Early 2028: Eliminating the competition (13:11) Late 2028: Diffusion and information control (15:12) Rest of time (17:58) Endword The original text contained 12 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: October 23rd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HtW3gNsaLYrSuzmda/how-an-ai-company-ceo-could-quietly-take-over-the-world --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    22 分钟

  8. 1天前

    “The main way I’ve seen people turn ideologically crazy [Linkpost]” by Noosphere89

    This linkpost is in part a response to @Raemon's comment about why the procedure Raemon did doesn't work in practice to deal with the selection effects I talked about in my last post. So in the last post, I was talking about a selection effect where believers of an argument can come to believe that their idea is true and that their critics are crazy wrong/trolling/dumb, no matter what argument is used. And the believers are half-right, in that their random error swamps any truth signal/evidence for most critics due to bounded computation for most topics, but they incorrectly perceive that as evidence that their theory is correct, because they don't realize that most possible critics of an idea will have bad criticisms independently of whether your claims are correct. This was part of what I was trying to get at when I said that selection effects are very [...] --- First published: October 23rd, 2025 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YFHcAcKTbRGp2TTb4/the-main-way-i-ve-seen-people-turn-ideologically-crazy --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    14 分钟
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