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David Chapman
Personal blog · betterwithout.aiaiphilosophy
David Chapman writes Better without AI, a personal blog at betterwithout.ai about ai and philosophy. Since 2023, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
How to avert an AI apocalypse... and create a future we would like
Most-linked posts?
- Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-14
- Fear Power, Not Intelligence2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-21
- Better without AI (by David Chapman meaningness)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-14
- Better text generation with science and engineering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-02
- Backpropaganda: Anti-Rational Neuro-Mythology2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-23
- Apocalypse Now2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-22
What Hacker News says?
I both agree and disagree. On one hand, yeah, people dramatically overstate the capabilities of AI. I think we made a terrible divergence when we started even using the term "AI" in favor of "machine learning." On the other hand, the examples given on this page: https://betterwithout.ai/AI-already-at-war Are pretty accurate descriptions of capabilities within the space, lots of real examples there. It's genuinely no…
Comment linking /AI-already-at-war
on “Better without AI (by David Chapman meaningness)”Submitted Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse as a story · 42 points
HN discussion>Pandora's box is open, the genie's bottle is uncorked As someone who's followed AI safety for over a decade now, it's been frustrating to see reactions flip from "it's too early to do any useful work!" to "it's too late to do any useful work!", with barely any time intervening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AW4nSq0hAc Perhaps it is worth actually reading a book like this one (posted to HN yesterday) before concl…
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on “Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first””Submitted Fear Power, Not Intelligence as a story · 10 points
HN discussionYou might be interested in the writings of "Better Without AI", your comment immediately makes me think of this: https://betterwithout.ai/gradient-dissent#backpropaganda
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on “What Is Temperature in NLP?”Submitted Better without AI (by David Chapman meaningness) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apocalypse Now as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apocalypse Now as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better Without AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Artificial Neurons Considered Harmful as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fear Power, Not Intelligence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better text generation with science and engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How should we evaluate progress in AI? (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better without AI: How to avert a moderate apocalypse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better text generation with science and engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why does David Chapman hate backpropagation so much as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backpropaganda: Anti-Rational Neuro-Mythology as a story · 1 points
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