18,133 claims · page 3 of 182
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| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | But in the case of AI, there is intelligent design, namely us. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | the neural networks, especially of the era, were just not very bright. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | It’s very hard to think of what those circumstances would be Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | It assumes exactly what is at issue, namely that these systems are going to be inherently concerned with their own survival. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | people let their imaginations run wild to think of intelligence as a miracle, as omniscience, as the ability to solve any problem. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | there’s no amount of human welfare that’s worth sacrificing for the welfare of an AI, like, zero Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | So we can’t know that AIs are not conscious, just as, you know, you can’t know that I’m not conscious. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | you get all of these maladaptive outcomes, all this cruelty and waste and competition and aggression, precisely because there was no… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I don’t know what it means to say it’s better than all the things humans can do. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | So I would not deny thinking to AI. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I don’t for a moment think that there is an inner life there. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | there may be another kind of history of ideas, sociology of ideas, in play, that has only recently come to light in some of the articles in… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | Although you’re right that the original founders of Wired magazine would have been, you know, techno-optimists and somewhat, you know, left… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I can’t prove that a lifelike AI or robot would not be conscious. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | they were stochastic parrots Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | that train has kind of left the station when it comes to current AIs, which get a lot of their reactions, their judgements, their… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | It’s attributed these near-magical powers. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | there may be a kind of dread of AI that I think is somewhat misaligned with the reality – or at least dread of the role of AI in society… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | the problem of getting humans, for example, to act at your bidding, you know, short of coercion, is a really tough, maybe unsolvable… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I think there’s a tendency to project what is a bogus hierarchy in the first place in evolutionary biology, and then to place AI and humans… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | Intelligence always consists of trading off multiple goals against each other. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | But these thought experiments are just outside of the world of everyday engineering. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | you don’t release a system, you don’t empower a system until you’ve, you know, tested the living daylights out of it. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | there are many reasons to think that that is impossible in principle. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I think given the likelihood that there is no sentience going on in AI Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I have no standing to challenge their understanding of how the AI works, to put it mildly. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | If it did, then I’d be much more worried. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | It’s a mechanism, it’s a gadget. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I don’t think I could reasonably deny that a mouse is conscious, by similar logic. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | some intellectual discourse is probably contaminated by inter-elite status competition. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | since a lot of the progress has been driven by, you know, affluence, by technology, by markets, there’s almost a reflexive recoil among… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | some of the scenarios of human extermination kind of attribute near-magical powers to some future AI Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | the people who develop these tools aren’t necessarily the people who are best equipped to predict what their effects will be. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | In some strands, yes, you’re right that there was a kind of techno-liberalism coming out of Silicon Valley. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | There was, you know, the social media hostility – one might even say, you know, panic. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | Have me back. I will come back. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I don’t use the word cult, but it kind of is a cult, to be honest Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | it is the people who are most enthralled to the existential risk way of thinking who seem to be most heedless of the everyday risk, the… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I think that’s a very precise disanalogy, precisely because if the world consists of an entity like yourself, then you’ve got the luxury of… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | It’s my understanding of intelligence as a gadget rather than a superpower. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | there’s always a kind of moralistic contempt among intellectuals for technology and for commerce. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | So I think we just need more cause-and-effect, mechanical engineering thinking – no awe, no dread, no sci-fi, no thought experiments Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I think the closest analogy was Chernobyl, where you did have a disaster caused by the rank incompetence of someone doing, you know, a… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Ray Dalio | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | "Everybody says 'I'm worth a billion dollars' but OK, try to spend that," he said. Ray Dalio · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I am sympathetic to that point of view. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | But the kind of New York Times crowd was always very cold toward technology. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | the problem of subjective experience, you know, it’s the hardest intellectual problem, because we don’t know of any causal story that can… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I think it’s a mistake to say that the thing that differentiates one human from another can just be extrapolated as an explanation for how… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I think it’s illicit to anthropomorphise AI as being like humans, which are products of natural selection, when AIs are not products of… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I’m not a creationist, I’m not an intelligent design theorist Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | That isn’t what an intelligent system does – maximising one simply stated goal with monomaniacal determination. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | my interest is not in AI except as a tool to understand natural intelligence. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | the paperclip argument, the argument that if you give an AI a goal of solving climate change, it’ll exterminate every last human, because… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | just to make sure, to reinforce, this is not a straw man Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | it’s a non sequitur to say it’ll wanna dominate us, wipe us out, whether accidentally or on purpose. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | It is completely reasonable to deny it to AIs. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I think it just replicates the same fallacy of a scala naturae defined by intelligence Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | The previous iterations, like GPT-2, really were kind of bullshit generators that were statistical approximations. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Ray Dalio | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | I think we're close to that. Ray Dalio · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Ray Dalio | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | We're in the part of the cycle that is before that but approaching that Ray Dalio · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Ray Dalio | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | "In order to spend that you have to sell wealth in order to get money — and so the bubble usually pricks at that." Ray Dalio · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | But there’s nothing that puts an AI in zero-sum competition with us. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | naturally look down on the people who are changing society without consulting them, like the people in tech, the people in commerce. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | doesn’t mean that they have a built-in motive to use them in order to exploit us, dominate us, exterminate us and so on. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | If you actually go back, there was always a kind of coolness to technology. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | it’s not omniscience, it’s not omnipotence, it’s not an uncanny ability to derive the truth of all propositions, the answer to all… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | It is absolutely not the case that any rational agent is willing to wreak any collateral damage in pursuit of one goal. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | And say I was wrong. I will do that. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | we shouldn’t assume that therefore they can solve any problem, such as, you know, persuade a human to make them immortal and never to cede… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | if that happened, then I would certainly reconsider. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | we can’t take for granted that with enough intelligence that will just automatically be solvable. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | Wipe every last one of them out – I’m not gonna shed any tears. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | they’re not thinking in language, but they are thinking, you know, with all of the information embodied in language. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | If there was a case of, say, instrumental convergence or misalignment, such that an AI system, given a laudable, desirable goal, ended up… Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | These are gadgets. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | But there’s just no question that the current generation can do remarkable feats of intelligence. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | It’s just not a good analogy. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Steven Pinker | Not checkable | 7 Oct 2026 | AI intuitions are so contaminated by human intuitions that you really cannot take them at face value. Steven Pinker · Not checkable · 7 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Michael Burry | Not checkable | 6 Oct 2026 | The only reason the CEOs of these tech monopolies are spending wildly on data centers like they are is because they assume they will be… Michael Burry · Not checkable · 6 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Michael Burry | Not checkable | 6 Oct 2026 | The stock market is quite obviously in its first stage of grief, denial. Michael Burry · Not checkable · 6 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Michael Burry | Not checkable | 5 Oct 2026 | Real analysis that critics don't read. Michael Burry · Not checkable · 5 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Michael Burry | Not checkable | 5 Oct 2026 | Fraud is inevitable in the dark. I bring light. Michael Burry · Not checkable · 5 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Scott Alexander | Not checkable | 5 Oct 2026 | I’m pretty busy and will try to make up for it after that changes. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 5 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Scott Alexander | Not checkable | 5 Oct 2026 | This is the weekly visible open thread. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 5 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Scott Alexander | Not checkable | 5 Oct 2026 | And thanks again to Ana for handling the parts that required Portuguese profiency. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 5 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Daniela Amodei | Not checkable | 4 Oct 2026 | “If you locked yourself and your cofounder in another room, and you wrote down or drew a picture of what it is you’re trying to build… Daniela Amodei · Not checkable · 4 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Daniela Amodei | Not checkable | 4 Oct 2026 | “That’s the type of situation where you think you’re doing the same thing, but I think it just doesn’t end well.” Daniela Amodei · Not checkable · 4 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Daniela Amodei | Not checkable | 4 Oct 2026 | “If you’re like, ‘Really, I’m gonna need a vacation to recover from my vacation,’ it might be the wrong choice.” Daniela Amodei · Not checkable · 4 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Daniela Amodei | Not checkable | 4 Oct 2026 | “Share a room with them. Be like, ‘How did that go?’ And if you’re like, ‘Man, all I wanna do is spend more time with you,’ great.” Daniela Amodei · Not checkable · 4 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Daniela Amodei | Not checkable | 4 Oct 2026 | “Instead of starting a company together, go on vacation together,” Amodei said during a talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business… Daniela Amodei · Not checkable · 4 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Michael Burry | Not checkable | 3 Oct 2026 | I tried not to waste any. Michael Burry · Not checkable · 3 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | I know pretty much every CEO in the S&P 500, either directly or one person removed. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | I was concerned about the country because I felt we needed to have basically a 2-week pause. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | I think you underwrite a SpaceX the way you underwrite a venture capital investment. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | I don’t think markets have changed as a result of anything that’s happened with me or follower growth on Twitter. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | I would say I’m as activist as I’ve ever been, but more of it’s on Twitter than in the corporate context. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | We don’t have to hire another person, and we don’t have to spend another dollar on overhead. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | I think it’s hard to do this because you need control of a public company and you have to be not in a get-rich-quick mindset. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | the probability of your being disrupted has gone up enormously. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 | |
| Not checkable | Bill Ackman | Not checkable | 1 Oct 2026 | On that basis, stocks of really high-quality companies are really cheap. Bill Ackman · Not checkable · 1 Oct 2026 |
“But in the case of AI, there is intelligent design, namely us.”
Steven Pinker 7 October 2026 Steven Pinker on AI Doom and Consciousness (Conspicuous Cognition)
But in the case of AI, there is intelligent design, namely us.
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