Siddhesh Recommends - November 2023

The best stuff I've listened to, watched, and read last month.

Dec 02, 2023

Siddhesh Recommends is a series in which I share the most memorable stuff I come across each month.

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OpenAI and the Biggest Threat in the History of Humanity (article)

“So this is the fear:
An AGI could become very intelligent very fast.
Being so intelligent, it would be impossible to contain it.
Once it is loose, it has a strong incentive to neutralize humans in order to optimize whatever its goal is.
The only way out of this is making sure this AI wants exactly the same thing as humans, but we have no idea how to achieve that.”

A clear explanation of AGI, its potential dangers, and some conspiracy theories on what could’ve happened at OpenAI over the last two weeks.

art from tiktok and instagram reels that i liked (article)

slices of life

What the humans like is responsiveness (article)

“I would argue that responsiveness is a core human need/desire. It is, perhaps, required for happiness. People are happy enough rich, and people are happy enough poor. But it’s hard to imagine anyone happy without a feeling that their actions have some impact, however small. Even if you’re not going to be remembered by history, you want to be remembered by your barista. The prisoner, though largely robbed of power, is probably happier if he can vex his captors, or skirt the rules somehow. Life is good if it squishes nicely when you poke it.”

some good tweets