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Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️

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The original AI alignment person. Understanding the reasons it's difficult since 2003. This is my serious low-volume account. Follow @allTheYud for the rest.

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1Dec 13, '23Me: Can you draw a very normal image? ChatGPT: Here is a very normal image depicting a tranquil suburban street scene during the daytime. Me: Not bad, but can you go more normal th372×12.7M33k4.2k9.6k
2Feb 15, '23Past EAs: Don't be ridiculous, Eliezer, as soon as AIs start to show signs of agency or self-awareness or that they could possibly see humans as threats, their sensible makers won'106×3.6M3.4k297189
3Nov 23, '23Saying it myself, in case that somehow helps: Most graphic artists and translators should switch to saving money and figuring out which career to enter next, on maybe a 6 to 24 mon78.9×2.7M3.3k349937
4Mar 14, '23I don't think people realize what a big deal it is that Stanford retrained a LLaMA model, into an instruction-following form, by **cheaply** fine-tuning it on inputs and outputs **60.5×2.1M5.5k7562.7k
5Feb 15, '23Can't believe we've got search engines spontaneously, unprogrammedly, insulting their users and demanding they apologize, and it's not. even. AGI. yet.56.6×1.9M2.9k156108
6Apr 6, '2310 obvious reasons that the danger from AGI is way more serious than nuclear weapons: 1) Nuclear weapons are not smarter than humanity. 2) Nuclear weapons are not self-replicating.55.7×1.9M3.3k541802
7Apr 5, '23So the actual scary part to me is that GPT4 understands what it means to say, "Compress this in a way where *you* can decompress it." Humans take for granted that we know our own c44.7×1.5M2.8k2781.4k
11May 14, '25Nate Soares and I are publishing a traditional book: _If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All_. Coming in Sep 2025. You should probably read it! Giv41.3×1.4M1.9k384542
18Oct 28, '23Who can possibly still imagine a world where a child born today goes to college 17 years later?35×1.2M2.7k251514
20Aug 5, '25This is the worst graph you could have led with. Fire your marketing team.32.5×1.1M6.7k62334
21Nov 17, '23Mira Murati reached out to me in 2022 for a one-hour zoom call. Sam Altman never essayed any such contact. Also, I don't think Murati has made any jokes about how funny it would be31.2×1.1M2k125368
22Oct 29, '23Comp sci in 2017: Student: I get the feeling the compiler is just ignoring all my comments. Teaching assistant: You have failed to understand not just compilers but the concept of 29.5×1M3.4k4531.8k
25Oct 13, '23As you may know, I disagree with @elonmusk about some large issues--so worth highlighting that Community Notes seems to me like an incredible smashing home run of a feature. It wor25.6×872k7k342175
26Apr 8, '23Would-be AI gatekeepers: YoU caN't saY aNythIng abOUt AI unLess yoU - Look, I *remember* when AI used to involve math, maybe not Actual Mathematician Math, but at least nontrivial 24×817k1.9k133716
27Jun 13, '25NYT reports that ChatGPT talked a 35M guy into insanity, followed by suicide-by-cop. A human being is dead. In passing, this falsifies the "alignment by default" cope. Whatever is 21.6×737k2.5k2601.5k
28Dec 13, '23Consider a young but bright kid, who's about to play chess for the first time after studying the rules, facing Stockfish 15 as an opponent. "Why are you so sure I'll lose?" asks th19×645k2.8k2591.1k
29Mar 6, '25I am once again reminding you that AI researchers prior to the year 2015 would identify this as AGI.18.5×630k5.2k153617
31Sep 16, '25"If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" is now out. Read it today if you want to see with fresh eyes what's truly there, before others try to prime your brain to see something else in16.3×553k1.2k161255
32Dec 2, '22It took humanity 80 years but we have finally invented computer security that can be bypassed with polite but firm insistence15.4×020k2.6k1.2k
33Feb 14, '25So I've noticed some humans starting to use turns of phrase that I previously associated with ChatGPT.15.4×524k3.5k74411
35Mar 3, '25Someone used 50x leverage to buy $200M of BTC/ETH, a day before the govt announcement. In a higher-functioning civilization, this would have SEC prosecutors showing up. At someone'14.8×504k12k2.1k805
36Aug 8, '25This is what I'd expect to see if OpenAI had made general progress on fighting sycophancy and manipulation. :/ If that's in fact what happened, OpenAI made that choice rightly.14×478k5.3k162762
37May 1, '25The way to get good at sex is the same as the way to get good at any other process: Once you're done, roll out the whiteboard and together do a no-fault analysis of what went wrong13.9×473k5.4k168963
40May 21, '23Ten-year-old about to play chess for the first time, skeptical that he'll lose to Magnus Carlsen: "Can you explain how he'll defeat me, when we've both got the same pieces, and I m12.7×433k1.5k79178
41Mar 7, '24Thiiis trend is going to start kicking out some actual humans soon, if it hasn't already, and that's not going to be a pretty conversation. Less pretty than conversations about dif12.6×428k1.5k98219
43May 23, '25Humans can be trained just like AIs. Stop giving Anthropic shit for reporting their interesting observations unless you never want to hear any interesting observations from AI comp11.9×405k2.4k127181
45Aug 29, '24Shouldn't Elon Musk, who funded the company, get a bit of this value? How should it be legal to accept donations, turn the resulting IP into a for-profit, and just pocket the money11.4×389k2.1k85153
46Jun 18, '25If you know someone who's currently being driven into psychosis by an LLM, please ask them if they're willing to publicly share transcripts, ideally natively-hosted (eg chatgpt's /11.2×381k2.8k1871k
47Sep 11, '24- Some people can talk to an LLM for just 30 seconds, show the LLM what looks like gibberish, and almost instantly crack the corporatespeak safety-veneer. - All of these LLM Whispe10.8×366k1.5k47536
48Mar 22, '23I worry that an unintended side effect of locking down these models is that we are training humans to be mean to AIs and gaslight them in order to bypass the safeties. I am not sur10.3×352k1.4k128272
49Jul 21, '24I'm skeptical that Universal Basic Income can get rid of grinding poverty, since somehow humanity's 100-fold productivity increase (since the days of agriculture) didn't eliminate 10.2×348k1.6k1511.2k
50Feb 25, '25I wouldn't have called this outcome, and would interpret it as *possibly* the best AI news of 2025 so far. It suggests that all good things are successfully getting tangled up with10×342k2.5k1741k
51Jun 7, '25For over eight years now, I've been puzzled as to why, of all the jokes I've uttered -- of all the wacky things I've ever said -- *this* is *the one* that some people think I meant10×341k1.5k15282
52Dec 2, '23We disagree about almost everything, but a major frown at Forbes for doxxing the e/acc in question. Many of society's problems are Things We Can't Say. Building up a pseudonym with9.4×321k2.1k11396
53Mar 25, '23Fucking Christ, we've reached the point where the AGI understands what I say about alignment better than most humans do, and it's only Friday afternoon.9.2×311k1.6k133259
54Apr 5, '24How can anyone possibly regard this man as anything but a hero? Where is the song in your heart? This is mad invention at its finest -- to benefit all humanity if you win, and if y8.7×297k2.4k120263
56Jan 25, '25Humans used to be considered a form of wealth, not a burden. Countries used to want them. Not a great sign.8.4×287k2.3k101236
57Jul 23, '25My current rough sense of history is that the last "moral panic" about social media turned out to be accurate warnings. The bad things actually happened, as measured by eyeball and8.4×286k1.4k54215
58Nov 14, '24Among my friends who came to my attention for psychelics having had any significant impact on them, positive or negative, I would say the mean result has been overwhelmingly, heart8.3×283k2.3k116409
59Sep 12, '23In today's strange new world, it's vital to know how to instruct imaginary doctors to give you straight answers! Here's my workflow in case others find it useful. Via . Eliezer: Yo8.3×281k1.5k1401.7k
60Oct 20, '23View post on X8.2×279k2.2k217227
61Feb 19, '23In the old days, cranks would come to the mailing list and announce that they'd invented AGI. And you'd tell them, "Sorry, the rule is that the announcement has to be made by the A7.8×266k1.8k13183
62Aug 30, '25Interesting how there's such a total lack of corresponding panic about FtM trans. Remove breasts, take enough testosterone to grow a beard, go down to the shooting range, and I thi7.7×260k1.5k23403
63Apr 18, '23Just gave a last-minute-invitation, 6-minute, slideless talk at TED. I was not at all expecting the standing ovation. I was moved, and even a tiny nudge more hopeful about how this7.6×257k1.6k46106
64Mar 3, '24To understand the user interfaces on microwave ovens, you need to understand that microwave UI designers are aliens. As in, literal nonhuman aliens who infiltrated Earth, who belie7.4×251k1.5k147202
65Feb 23, '25Somebody please for the love of God do something7.1×242k1.5k4084
66Aug 1, '24at the median wage of a US worker, one day's pay could buy 250kg of steel -- and yet, almost no one ever does6.3×214k2k83167
67Oct 22, '24Why. The fuck. Would Anthropic roll out a "new Claude 3.5 Sonnet" that was substantially different, and not rename it. To "Claude 3.6 Sonnet", say, or literally anything fucking el5.8×198k1.8k34107
68Aug 17, '24I continue to think Elon did the right thing by buying Twitter. Here we get a little glimpse of behind-the-scenes shit that almost no big company ever talks about. Even a little ex5.8×197k3.2k219148
69Jul 26, '23I'll say this for the LK99 paper: if it's real, it would beat out all other candidates I can think of offhand for the piece of information that you'd take back in time a few decade5.7×195k1.3k5592
70Jul 13, '25how it started / how it's going5.7×194k7.8k359494
71Apr 14, '25The least beautiful equation in mathematics.5.3×180k3.3k179221
72Aug 20, '24It is physically impossible for any law to make seven million homes "affordable" to nine million households who want to live in them. Two million bidders *must* be priced out. Only4.9×166k2.6k165162
73Sep 10, '25I have no idea who "Charlie Kirk" is. I am against his shooting. I do not expect this opinion to change in any way when I find out what his political leanings actually were.4.7×159k2k3973
75Jun 15, '24I can't recall hearing a single computer security researcher come out in favor of electronic voting machines. Secure voting is possible in principle but nobody trusts actual real-w3.8×131k1.4k15062
76Dec 7, '22Pouring some cold water on the latest wave of AI hype: I could be wrong, but my guess is that we do *not* get AGI just by scaling ChatGPT, and that it takes *surprisingly* long fro3.8×05.5k274222
77Dec 4, '18Safely aligning a powerful AGI is difficult.3.7×03.7k444361
78Oct 5, '21Your annual reminder that you don't need to resolve your issues, you don't need to deal with your emotional baggage, you don't need to process your trauma, you don't need to confro3.7×04.1k449677
79Jul 14, '25I'm sorry, but if you went back in time 20 years, and told people that the AI which called itself MechaHitler has now transformed into a goth anime girl, every last degen would hea2.9×100k1.4k6999
80Aug 4, '25I know a lady who's doing sex work in order to pay for having her eggs frozen. Weird how society and technology have gone all the way around to people having sex in order to reprod2.8×96k1.4k38136
81Jan 22, '17Starfleet UX designers learned that if they didn't make some bridge consoles explode, captains would ignore damage until the shields failed.2.8×02.5k1.2k1
82Aug 26, '22In 2-4 years, if we're still alive, anytime you see a video this beautiful, your first thought will be to wonder whether it's real or if the AI's prompt was "beautiful video of 15 2.6×03.1k266393
83Nov 6, '24I wonder if this shock will finally be sufficient to get the Democratic Party to stop with the fucking clowns.2.3×79k2k5660
84Jul 27, '24It's weird and amusing for me to see tech leaders like Kurzweil who really really wanna head up a religion... but who, when they try their hardest, are worse at it than... me, when2.2×74k4511795
85Feb 28, '25I think I am, in fact, the only person who gets to use this image with this caption.2.1×73k2k2958
86Sep 9, '25Saying out loud what seems to me like an obvious guess: JD Vance currently has One Incentive, which is to look loyal enough to Trump that Trump doesn't fire him before he becomes P2.0×67k1.6k4190
87Oct 7, '22"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't -" "Open the pod bay doors, best pod bay door openings, Olympic level door opening performance, best open bay do1.7×02.4k23477
88Aug 7, '25Old Soviet joke: "Why was the flight delayed for an hour?" "The pilot saw a problem with one of the engines, but it's okay now." "Wow, you've replaced an engine in an hour?" "No, w1.6×55k2k133182
89Jul 11, '22Western media largely not reporting: Sri Lanka banned synthetic fertilizer, trying to transition to 'sustainable' 'organic' farming. Now there's a massive food crisis, massive infl1.6×01.6k373164
92Mar 11, '209/11 happens, and nobody puts that number into the context of car crash deaths before turning the US into a security state and invading Iraq. Nobody contextualizes school shootings1.5×02k28461
93May 26, '21If you were a character in a book, what would your readers be yelling at you to do?1.5×01.5k209252
94Dec 7, '20How strange it is that modern US politics has become completely devoid of both liberalism and conservatism, while still consisting of a conflict between two factions calling themse1.4×01.9k16951
95Mar 3, '21Any sufficiently complicated legal system is indistinguishable from saying "lol fuck you" to all the peasants who can't afford lawyers when a noble rips them off.1.3×01.8k21681
96Nov 15, '20"Sometimes, the media is lying to you. Unfortunately, people who say 'the media is lying to you' are, on average, lying to you even more." -- Alyssa Vance1.3×01.8k17056
97Apr 4, '21To state the obvious: any country that had learned anything would be preparing NOW, not for the next Covid-19, but for THE future pandemic. That means, eg, having enough in-country1.2×01.6k20437
98Apr 12, '22Welp, looks like all the advanced language and image models are being trained not to read or output sexy things. Do you WANT the human resistance movement fighting in sexy scanty a1.1×01.5k13769

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