Nick Cammarata voices AI fears; Leo Gao predicts accelerating progress
Nick Cammarata posted fears about AI, prompting Leo Gao's reply that AI progress rate accelerates until morale improves. Gao parodied a historical morale poster to highlight rapid AI capability gains. The exchange originated from AI safety accounts on social media.
@nabla_theta @nickcammarata the rate of ai progress will increase until morale becomes irrelevant
Leo Gao@nabla_theta@nickcammarata the rate of ai progress will increase until morale improves
@nickcammarata the rate of ai progress will increase until morale improves
Nick@nickcammarataI would like progress to be merely very fast please, I feel like it’s going to come faster than that
I would like progress to be merely very fast please, I feel like it’s going to come faster than that
Nick@nickcammaratascared of ai
i'll keep trying to jhana it away but every time i come back to consensus reality the metr chart has gone further up
Nick@nickcammarataI would like progress to be merely very fast please, I feel like it’s going to come faster than that
@ArtirKel if every time i jhana metr goes up, maybe if i can anti jhana ai progress will start to go backwards
José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente@ArtirKel@nickcammarata have you considered not jhana'ing it away and feeling the fear all the way
#411Nick@NICKCAMMARATA*checks notes* 8 minutes after posting about the metr chart going up too fast it went up so much they had the censor the top of the image
METR@METR_EvalsWe evaluated an early version of Claude Mythos Preview for risk assessment during a limited window in March 2026. We estimated a 50%-time-horizon of at least 16hrs (95% CI 8.5hrs to 55hrs) on our task suite, at the upper end of what we can measure without new tasks.
@nickcammarata have you considered not jhana'ing it away and feeling the fear all the way
Nick@nickcammaratai'll keep trying to jhana it away but every time i come back to consensus reality the metr chart has gone further up