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AIs and robots are quickly becoming powerful Humanity is currently creating “artificial intelligences.” The power and intelligence of these new non-biological agents is improving exponentially, and exponential growth implies rapid, unpredictable change. A huge factor underlying the uncertainty around how rapidly AIs will advance is how quickly AIs will become proficient at making themselves more intelligent. AIs are beginning to “pick themselves up by their bootstraps” and rewrite their own code to learn faster and think more effectively:...

In my September 2023 post “Xi Jinping has ruined China”, I wrote: Since Xi expelled foreign journalists for doing their jobs, I’ve been struggling to find quality, unbiased coverage of China, since much English-language coverage of China comes directly from the Chinese government, its paid Western shills (“white monkeys”) who are some of the few foreigners remaining in China, or Falun Gong-owned media. I recently discovered a pair of westerners (one American; one South African) who each lived in China for over a decade, motorcycled all across the country, and married Chinese women....