Gabriela 🦋❤️‍🔥

Too dark. The AI companies must drop the doom narrative and remain what they are, helpful software. Pay for service tools. They should see that we don’t want them to solve the problems *for us*. They don’t even need to do that to make their riches. Instead, they pick the lowest hanging fruit to deceive us that from here, everything else will be automatically solved. They pick problems that are amenable to massively paralleled computing and search in spaces like math where the rules are clear and defined, and then falsely extrapolate that everything is just that, a search problem. It is not true. It is a dangerous lie. In this way they will kill progress by creating an incredibly hostile and secretive culture where no one wants to share anything as we expect everything to be scooped by them. The work to be done is to *help people solve the problems*. Academia has been broken for a long time. The literature is a muddled mess of contradictions and unreproducible results. No one wants to do the work to ‘clean it up.’ No one knows what to fund because the foundation itself is shaky. Rebuild the foundation. OpenAI and Anthropic could do this *for us*. They could use agents to scan the literature in spaces where the uncertainty is highest and surface core contradictions to be tested, run automated experiments to figure out ground truths, and share new work that reestablishes clarity so we can then build new discovery on top. A clean knowledge base; a springboard of sorts for collaboration and prosperity. This is work that no human alone could do. It is a grand project. Our AI leaders have lost their way. Look back to what inspired humans for millennia, wonder and awe at the universe, at beauty, pride for our culture, a shared sense that we can build the future together. We do not want idiocracy or fully automated space communism. We do not want you to take 1000s of years of our artistic work, our souls, and reproduce it. We want to have a part in the future. We would once band together to defend our way of life against a common enemy. We have now made that enemy ourselves. If we stopped to take a breath, to see the forest for the trees, we’d realise that this is the best way of life man has ever known, and must be defended. By stepping back from the superintelligence narrative to one of a defence of our prosperous way of life, the AI companies can make their money simply by charging for the services they provide and and in return, we will continue to feed them our out-of-distribution ideas, wants, and wonder. It does not need to be this way.