[FRIAM] ‘A huge cudgel’: alarm as Trump’s war on universities could target accreditors | US universities | The Guardian

[Marcus Daniels]

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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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] ‘A huge cudgel’: alarm as Trump’s war on universities could target accreditors | US universities | The Guardian


On 4/14/25 12:23 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:

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.

Has she stolen something? sci-hub did the distribution, so it is not technically her copyright violation.


Let's say that she was not a free agent but birthed and raised by an autocratic leader (e.g. PRK, CCCP, Russia, ???)... 
Does that change anything? I can't say. Splitting hairs can be such hard work! But apparently that makes it good (necessary) work!


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