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26 Comments 26 $RS=function(a,b){a=document.getElementById(a);b=document.getElementById(b);for(a.parentNode.removeChild(a);a.firstChild;)b.parentNode.insertBefore(a.firstChild,b);b.parentNode.removeChild(b)};$RS("S:4","P:4") $RC("B:2","S:2") Fiction World Modeling AI Curated 322 $RC("B:6","S:6") New Comment Submit 26 comments , sorted by top scoring Click to highlight new comments since: Today at 10:00 AM [ - ] agastyasridharan 1mo 23 10 I really like the goal of explaining weird, sci-fi-y AIS developments in concrete, accessible terms that people outside the field can easily understand. But my gut reaction -- and the reaction of a lot of my friends (both in and outside AIS) -- is that if you sent this to a random person outside the field, it might come across as pretty condescending backfire (e.g. just because I don’t agree with you doesn’t mean you should send me a picture book ).
[ - ] Raemon 1mo 13 16 I think the intent here is more for people who don't understand the Huggingface Incident but would like to, than people you have arguments about it with.
[ - ] Andrew Wu 1mo 9 4 I think this explainer would be a wonderful thing to read to a child! It's written with the right style, and the illustrations are rather lovely. I have a younger sibling, and were they a few years younger, I'd be quite happy to send them this comic. That being said, I don't love the idea of sending it to my friends and family: in particular, my friends and family, with few exceptions, are intelligent and curious people who don't happen to be working in AI safety.
They might not know much about machine learning, cybersecurity, or AI, but they can certainly grapple with complex ideas and problems just like we can (and perhaps even more so!), and sending them this would give off the following implicit message: I know you're not smart enough or intellectually well-developed enough to read the technical report, so I'll give you something written like a children's story instead. For friends and family, I'd prefer to give them something with, if not more substance, at least a style that conveys a particular taking-the-other-person-seriously.
[ - ] Raemon 1mo 8 2 Nod. (Broadly I expect people to have intuitions of which friends/family would think it was fun and which would be insulted, or frame it more as a fun thing than as a you're too dumb to read the METR report kinda thing)
[ - ] Terence Coelho 1mo 8 0 There have also been some recent AI-generated music videos like this one that explain the incident well in a quick and entertaining way without being opinionated/preachy. (I don't mean to compare this to the comic, which will sit better with people that prefer human art/writing).
[ - ] Prometheus 1mo 6 1 I personally like this one https://x.com/This_Liss/status/2102995673847406994
[ - ] Terence Coelho 1mo 1 0 I wish more people would post these things to youtube! There are other x-only ones I like
[ - ] Saul Schleimer 1mo 12 1 The end of the world is so cute! I have already shared this with my partner. Thank you so much!
For some reason, many sentences are missing punctuation. For example:
“It is too hard to make all the puzzles solvable” said Toad “What is the worst that could happen?”