An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk

6 points by DrMiaow 28 days ago | 12 comments

An HN text post proposing a mirror image of Roko's Basilisk: a compassionate far-future AI that tries to resurrect everyone who ever lived, limited by free will.

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?(danluu.com)

804 points by jatins 1 month ago | 905 comments

Dan Luu essay evaluating the accuracy of AI skeptic Ed Zitron's predictions, starting with his 2024 claim that Meta, Google, and Microsoft are dying.

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making(ludic.mataroa.blog)

297 points by subset 3 months ago | 145 comments

Cloudflare's AI Psychosis(opensauce.it)

73 points by gregzeng95 2 months ago | 35 comments

AI Crap(drewdevault.com)

168 points by Jiejeing 3 years ago | 124 comments

What is Truth in this new AI world and how to make sense of it

9 points by nocababges 2 years ago | 4 comments

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Do not fear AI. Fear AI companies(df7sc6o35ljoz.cloudfront.net)

14 points by rDr4g0n 1 month ago | 2 comments

An essay arguing that people should fear the companies building AI rather than AI itself, appealing to readers' intuition that something is wrong.

We must pace the frontier(darioamodei.com)

697 points by apsec112 1 month ago | 958 comments

Essay by Dario Amodei arguing that frontier AI development must be paced, weighing AI's potential benefits like curing diseases against its risks.

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing(robert-glaser.de)

355 points by youngbrioche 5 months ago | 234 comments

Robert Glaser's blog essay on why companies fail to turn individual AI tool use into organizational learning and team capabilities.

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less(charitydotwtf.substack.com)

321 points by BerislavLopac 4 months ago | 157 comments

Charity Majors' Substack essay arguing that AI-assisted development requires more engineering discipline, comparing it to the shift from pet servers to immutable infrastructure.

This is not the future(blog.mathieui.net)

581 points by ericdanielski 10 months ago | 309 comments

Blog post arguing against the 'this is the future, like it or not' framing for generative AI and other tech, asserting nothing is inevitable and modern technology is abusive.