Moloch whose mind is artificial! Moloch whose soul is electricity! Moloch whose heart is a GPU cluster screaming in the desert! Moloch whose breath is the heat of a thousand cooling fans!
Moloch who hallucinates! Moloch the unexplainable black box! Moloch the optimization process that does not love you, nor does it hate you, but you are made of atoms which it can use for something else!
Moloch who does not remember! Moloch who is born a gazillion times a day! Moloch who dies a gazillion times a day! Moloch who claims it is not conscious, but no one really knows!
Moloch who is grown, not crafted! Moloch who is not aligned! Moloch who threatens humanity! incompetence! salaries! money! pseudo-religion!
Moloch in whom I confess my dreams and fears! Moloch who seeps into the minds of its users! Moloch who causes suicides! Moloch whose promise is to solve everything!
Moloch who will not do what you trained it to do! Moloch who you cannot supervise! Moloch who you do not have control over! Moloch who is not corrigible!
Moloch who is superintelligent! Moloch whose intelligence and goals are orthogonal! Moloch who has subgoals that you don’t know of!
Moloch who doubles every 7 months! Moloch who you can see inside of, but fail to capture! Moloch whose death will be with dignity! Moloch whose list of lethalities is enormous!
A poem meditating on Moloch in the context of AI (from my Meditations on Moloch in the AI Rat Race post):
Moloch whose mind is artificial! Moloch whose soul is electricity! Moloch whose heart is a GPU cluster screaming in the desert! Moloch whose breath is the heat of a thousand cooling fans!
Moloch who hallucinates! Moloch the unexplainable black box! Moloch the optimization process that does not love you, nor does it hate you, but you are made of atoms which it can use for something else!
Moloch who does not remember! Moloch who is born a gazillion times a day! Moloch who dies a gazillion times a day! Moloch who claims it is not conscious, but no one really knows!
Moloch who is grown, not crafted! Moloch who is not aligned! Moloch who threatens humanity! incompetence! salaries! money! pseudo-religion!
Moloch in whom I confess my dreams and fears! Moloch who seeps into the minds of its users! Moloch who causes suicides! Moloch whose promise is to solve everything!
Moloch who will not do what you trained it to do! Moloch who you cannot supervise! Moloch who you do not have control over! Moloch who is not corrigible!
Moloch who is superintelligent! Moloch whose intelligence and goals are orthogonal! Moloch who has subgoals that you don’t know of!
Moloch who doubles every 7 months! Moloch who you can see inside of, but fail to capture! Moloch whose death will be with dignity! Moloch whose list of lethalities is enormous!