Teerth Aloke

Karma: 29

Teerth Aloke 14 Mar 2026 3:25 UTC
−13 points
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in reply to: Thane Ruthenis’s comment on: Thane Ruthenis’s Shortform
Governments are not going to ban or obstruct data center buildout, given the immense power of Big Tech, the vast amounts of finance involved (which is going to increase), and geopolitical completion.
If it needs to be done, it cannot be done by legal methods, by lobbying or campaigning, but only by Force.

Teerth Aloke 6 Jan 2026 12:27 UTC
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in reply to: Nisan’s comment on: Nisan’s Shortform
It is not actually insanse. Sir Winston Churchill also advocated a preventive nuclear war against USSR in the late 1940s. The rapid rise of World Communism, whether in Europe (including record high vote shares in West Europe), in China, Korea, Indochina, other parts of the world, convinced them that the biggest ethical goal was ‘Destruction of USSR’.
Stalin remained a thoroughly criminal despot in this period—the Leningrad Purge, Doctor’s Plot, Night of the Murdered Poets, the establishment of Communist Dictatorships across Eastern Europe, with their own ruthless purges and repressions.
USA had the atomic bomb. It seemed the Only Solution to protect liberty.

Teerth Aloke 13 Oct 2025 12:57 UTC
−40 points
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on: Pause House, Blackpool
It is not the first time that people have tried to stop an economic process by campaigning. It is not the last time that it will fail.
The development of AI is a race.

Teerth Aloke 17 Apr 2023 0:52 UTC
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in reply to: gwern’s comment on: [linkpost] Elon Musk plans AI start-up to rival OpenAI
The accelerationist and the doomer souls living in one body apparently.

Teerth Aloke 5 Apr 2023 4:46 UTC
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on: Has anyone thought about how to proceed now that AI notkilleveryoneism is becoming more relevant/is approaching the Overton window?
How about coordinate legal actions to have chatbots banned, like ChatGPT was banned in Italy? Is it possible?
If successful this would weaken the incentive for devealopment of new AI models.

Teerth Aloke 3 Apr 2023 0:56 UTC
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on: Exposure to Lizardman is Lethal
As per a survey, 7% Nigerian Christians like ISIS. That is another example of this phenomenon.

Teerth Aloke 2 Apr 2023 12:53 UTC
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in reply to: Vivek Hebbar’s comment on: What could EA change it’s name to?
QA sessions.

Teerth Aloke 2 Apr 2023 12:50 UTC
7 points
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on: Harry Potter and the Data Centers of Doom
Some people in this community are thinking out of the box. I fully support this, all options must be on the table.

Teerth Aloke 1 Apr 2023 15:32 UTC
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in reply to: Noosphere89’s comment on: Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky
However, one cannot make universal statements. The efficacy of violent and nonviolent methods depend upon the exact context. If someone believes in an imminent hard takeoff, and gives high credence to Doom, violent activity may be rational.

Teerth Aloke 30 Mar 2023 2:57 UTC
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in reply to: avturchin’s comment on: Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Exactly my thought, but how to get it done?

Teerth Aloke 25 Mar 2023 3:04 UTC
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in reply to: Christopher King’s comment on: Metaculus Predicts Weak AGI in 2 Years and AGI in 10
Difference in criteria.

Teerth Aloke 20 Mar 2023 1:50 UTC
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on: GPT-4 and ASCII Images?
In my understanding, this is only possible by rote memorization.

Teerth Aloke 19 Mar 2023 11:56 UTC
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in reply to: avturchin’s comment on: An Appeal to AI Superintelligence: Reasons to Preserve Humanity
Yes, have you considered any reasonable strategy to provoke a nuclear war, as the worst-case plan to stop AI progress?

Teerth Aloke 19 Mar 2023 3:58 UTC
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on: An Appeal to AI Superintelligence: Reasons to Preserve Humanity
Honestly, some of these arguments are laughable, like the ones about aliens and Everett branches. I don’t think that an AI would believe this.

Teerth Aloke 16 Mar 2023 3:00 UTC
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in reply to: M. Y. Zuo’s comment on: GPT-4
Not public data, at least.

Teerth Aloke 1 Mar 2023 9:11 UTC
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on: (Cryonics) can I be frozen before being near-death?
You are contemplating suicide. Seek help.

Teerth Aloke 28 Feb 2023 13:03 UTC
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in reply to: Gerald Monroe’s comment on: Fertility Rate Roundup #1
They are looking to China, perhaps, as a new patron.

Teerth Aloke 27 Feb 2023 15:33 UTC
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on: Fertility Rate Roundup #1
We will see in Afghanistan whether banning contraception is one of those viable policies to inflate fertility.

Teerth Aloke 27 Feb 2023 11:07 UTC
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in reply to: Donald Hobson’s comment on: [Prediction] Humanity will survive the next hundred years
Admitted.

Teerth Aloke 26 Feb 2023 6:03 UTC
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on: [Prediction] Humanity will survive the next hundred years
Biowarfare won’t kill everyone. Nuclear war won’t kill everyone. Anthropogenic global warming won’t kill everyone. At worst, these will destroy civilization which, counterintuitively, makes Homo sapiens more likely to survive on the short term (century). The same goes for minor natural disasters like volcanic eruptions.
Natural disasters like giant meteors, or perhaps a gamma ray burst, are unlikely. The last time something like that happened was 66 million years ago. The odds of something similar happening in the next century are on the order of $2 \times 10^{- 6}$ . That’s small enough to ignore for the purposes of this bet. The only way everyone dies is via AI
Strongly agreed with this. The only non-infinitesimal probability of human extinction comes from an alien intelligence (like AI) actively pursuing the goal of human extinction.