Peter Thiel may have been reading some medieval religious literature?

> Shut down all the large GPU clusters (the large computer farms where the most powerful AIs are refined). Shut down all the large training runs. Put a ceiling on how much computing power anyone is allowed to use in training an AI system, and move it downward over the coming years to compensate for more efficient training algorithms. No exceptions for governments and militaries. Make immediate multinational agreements to prevent the prohibited activities from moving elsewhere. Track all GPUs sold. If intelligence says that a country outside the agreement is building a GPU cluster, be less scared of a shooting conflict between nations than of the moratorium being violated; be willing to destroy a rogue datacenter by airstrike.

> Frame nothing as a conflict between national interests, have it clear that anyone talking of arms races is a fool. That we all live or die as one, in this, is not a policy but a fact of nature. Make it explicit in international diplomacy that preventing AI extinction scenarios is considered a priority above preventing a full nuclear exchange, and that allied nuclear countries are willing to run some risk of nuclear exchange if that’s what it takes to reduce the risk of large AI training runs.

In that regard, it's not too far of a stretch to consider a state that can effectively regulate math you perform as the Antichrist.

Same goes for climate change. Humans will produce carbon, and effective regulation on emissions will eventually lead to population control.

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/what-do-ai-doomers-want?...

There are people talking seriously about drone striking data centers which are running unapproved AI models.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/be-willing-to-des...

I think the fearmongering around AI may be overblown by its investors and promoters, but to the extent that some models may morph what it means for a country to be militarily secure, there's no reason why diplomacy, negotiation and de-escalation won't be the same powerful tools they often have been in the very human drive to mitigate the risk of conflict ...

Yeah, we only need to cut back carbon emissions to the point that the Earth's natural carbon cycle systems can actually cope with it (and drastically cut back on the unchecked destruction and poisoning of Earth's natural coping systems in general while we're at it).

I consider AI my own personal mirror that is interesting to explore. I'd also like to see what results when it mirrors major schools of thought and belief system, so I welcome Thiel's comments - but that doesn't mean I take them seriously.

“Devout Christian faith” I have no problem with. “Whack-a-doodle religious nut with access to levers of government”, eh, I’m not entirely comfortable with.

You're gonna have a rough couple of years I think, the lunatics are already running the asylum.

Thank you for the correction. Though I do not know if that’s an improvement: whack-a-doodle and doesn’t read his holy text with comprehension.

EA as Antichrist: Understanding Peter Thiel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45324231

Cuz I'm getting tired of waiting. Let's get the Tribulation started, so we can get to the good part at the end.