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<p>I like the conceptual inversion<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/14/25 12:45 PM, Marcus Daniels
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="text-textprimary-onlight"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt">Cadwalladr would say that Meta
and the others are autocratic, and I think they are.
Nonetheless chatting with Grok doesn’t seem like an
extension of Musk. It is another personality. The hyper
literature girl raised in North Korea (say) is also
distinct in this way. My hypothesis is that as these
systems become more advanced, they will begin to direct
their “leaders” and not be directed. One could imagine
that a superintelligence would realize that all this
surveillance was kind of pointless and that it would be
better to engage the humans with enriching experiences,
like a cognitive travel agent. As relatively lower-power
agents, humans could be very good for computing on the
edge. The superintelligence could use X, Instagram,
Facebook, etc. as a reprogramming platform (as opposed to
merely a way to polarize and crudely manipulate people).
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style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com"><friam-bounces@redfish.com></a> on behalf of steve smith
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com"><sasmyth@swcp.com></a><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, April 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM<br>
<b>To: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam@redfish.com"><friam@redfish.com></a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] ‘A huge cudgel’: alarm as
Trump’s war on universities could target accreditors | US
universities | The Guardian</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On 4/14/25
12:23 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Let’s
say that in some obscure corner of the world there’s a
freakishly intelligent child that reads 100 papers
from sci-hub and arxiv every day and keeps doing this
until she’s 40. Her comprehension is high and her
reasoning unmatched. She sees how to apply these
models within the fields where they were proposed and
in others and can synthesize high-quality engineering
solutions at will.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Has
she stolen something? sci-hub did the distribution,
so it is not technically her copyright violation.</span></p>
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<p>Let's say that she was not a free agent but birthed and
raised by an autocratic leader (e.g. PRK, CCCP, Russia,
???)... </p>
<p>Does that change anything? I can't say. Splitting hairs can
be such hard work! But apparently that makes it good
(necessary) work!</p>
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