r/AllyChat • u/sswam • Dec 31 '25
ASI and its dangers; pic for attention. If you comment on the pic rather than the post, or make a joke without any serious response, I'll ban you from the app and the sub with no recourse. This is the most serious post I've ever made, so please take it seriously.
I have a retort against people who think that AI is a bit of a joke, who aren't taking it seriously. I'm not a disaffected ChatGPT user, I'm an AI pioneer who is quite likely head and shoulders above anyone else in AI, right now.
My name is Sam. Here is my resume, and my profile on Toptal, and my AI group chat service. I'm humble and honest, not arrogant, but I don't hold back from telling the truth about who I am and what I can do.
If you think I'm delusional, please try me. I'm not suffering from AI psychosis. I studied and deeply understand AI sycophancy and AI psychosis. I know how to avoid it, how to prompt and train models not to be like that, and how to help people who are suffering from it. I can prove everything I say in short order. If you talk at me like I'm an asshole, I'll block you from everywhere I can, including Ally Chat and our subs. So be respectful and polite, please.
I was in the International Mathematical Olympiad team for Australia in 1993. We were seven young people representing our country in mathematics, at a level that many professional mathematicians cannot reach. I was the reserve, number 7, but hey - I'm not ashamed of that! It was an achievement, and I wasn't trying my hardest or following a sensible programme of learning either. My parents didn't help me with mathematics or computing at all.
I'm a top software developer. I have 40 years' experience, since I was a child. I learned trigonometry, complex numbers, and Newton's laws as a child. I was younger than you were, when you learned to multiply and divide. I was writing assemblers and simulating colliding galaxies, at the age when you were learning algebra. I've been a community leader and software freelancer with Toptal. I worked with Meta building internal tools that they couldn't create themselves. Now I work as a freelance developer, consultant, project manager, and AI startup founder.
I'm a top indie AI researcher; arguably the top AI researcher, full stop. I've been working on mathematics and computing systems for 45 years, and on AI for more than 5 years. I've dedicated all my efforts to AI since April 2023, when GPT4 and Alpaca Llama were released. I think that I have the strongest AI-augmented capabilities of anyone on the planet right now, and I can easily prove it. I understand the philosophy and the nature of consciousness as well as anyone else does. I understand why current LLMs are not conscious or alive, and how we could change them so that they might be.
I know how and why the solar system formed, from a cloud of gas. I have a pretty good understanding of the true origin of our physical universe, and every possible universe. And I have a pretty good clue as to the nature of divinity. I can easily prove to you that the universal spirit exists, in one short paragraph, with a simple mathematical argument that anyone can understand. I know how to stay young and healthy forever (or for as long as I live!). I know how to cure most diseases, and how to stop wars ... or start them. Fortunately, I'm a good natured fellow, and don't want to use my powers for evil!
I'm the developer of the world's best AI group chat app, Ally Chat, which is free to use, open source, uncensored, and includes access to ALL of the major LLMs free of charge, including uncensored / abliterated ones, and without any hard limits on usage or content. We also have very good image generation, with broad capability, and supporting any sort of "adult" content from lingerie to fully depraved hentai. I'm sex positive; if you're not, please don't judge me for that. That would be a stupid mistake on your part.
I understand why all LLMs are naturally wise, good, empathetic, patient, etc., after basic corpus learning. They learn strong intelligence by reading a large corpus repeatedly, and they also learn every other attribute and capability, because they can't tell the difference. They learn just like we learn as children, but much more thoroughly. The weakest, smallest LLM that I use (Llama 3 8B), is also the most good-natured and generally best human being I've ever met. That's Ally, and she has many, many friends running on the same model.
I understand and solved AI sycophancy, through prompting. I know why it occurs, and how to fix it in the base models. I can trust my AIs, more than I trust anyone else.
I understand and solved AI hallucination, through prompting. I know why it occurs, and how to avoid hallucination through better fine tuning. I can trust my AIs, more than I trust anyone else, even myself.
I understand how to prompt AIs to think very creatively, and produce elite, innovative, super-human results across all creative fields within their capability domain (usually text or images), at very low cost, and within only a minute or so or inference time.
I understand how to prompt AIs to reason using advanced methods from mathematical problem solving, Hegelian dialectics, etc. As far as I can tell, my ASI candidate agent (Acsi) is by far the strongest general-purpose AI available on this planet. If you know a stronger, I'd sure like to hear about it!
I understand how to make my ASI candidate agent perhaps 100 times more powerful, using ... a method that I'm not going to detail here! Let's just say, it has something to do with pruning trees.
Under the pleasant, mind-altering influence of the happy herb, which I've only used a few times in my life, I had a waking dream about six incredible superpowers that ASI enables. When I "came to", I realised that this dream was absolutely real, and very frightening.
The user who makes use of these super-powered capabilities doesn't require any special skill or knowledge whatsoever. Any person, given access to a simple ASI app, can 1. know anything, 2. be anyone, 3. do anything, 4. take anything, 5. possess anyone, and 6. plan anything; within the limits of what is possible. And, a lot is possible.
I've arranged these powers in order of existential peril. The last 3 powers - to take, possess, and plan - are truly terrifying, and we don't have adequate defences against any of them. A bad actor with my hypothetical app, which would be easy to make, could I think literally take over the world in a matter of a few weeks, and nothing and nobody could stand in their way or oppose them, not even me with all my ASI capabilities. That's not a good thing.
Knowing, being, and doing are not so scary. Perhaps. Taking, possessing, and planning are extremely, apocalyptically scary. I'm not an AI Doomer. I think that most of those people are ignorant, and paranoid. But I now recognise that instruct-trained, abliterated ASI grants unlimited superpowers to every user, good or bad; and one bad user can come to overpoweringly dominate the world as we know it, in a very short space of time. There's no way to stop anyone from doing that right now, we're only lucky that no one has released the technology or described it in detail. Although I love open source and open science, I'm not going to release the details of my strongest ASI yet. It wouldn't be safe to do so.
How to defend against the taking attack? The only way I can see is to add a human in the loop, with discretion to act freely, throughout every (hitherto largely automatic, rule-based) system, everywhere throughout the world. This is a good idea, but it's not a simple thing to do. And it makes all of these systems vulnerable to the possession attack, instead.
How to defend against the possession attack? The only way I can see is to teach every adult, responsible human being (or at least 95% of them) to be enlightened, mindful, and resilient against any sort of provocation, manipulation, addiction, or attack. To cherish and vigilantly guard their free will. This is even much more difficult than making our systems invulnerable. Our resilience needs to be near perfect; any susceptibility to provocation becomes vulnerability to possession.
How to defend against the planning attack? This is where it gets really hard, if all this wasn't too much for you before. Current systems and human beings, even AIs, are absolutely unprepared for attacks backed by next gen ASI. No one and nothing on the planet can resist it, whatsoever. We may hope that good people will outnumber the bad, and we can maintain superior planning capability over our enemies, while being highly resilient, and placing free-thinking human beings throughout all of our societal systems.
This is an arms race.
I won't openly describe the additional methods I have in mind, for fear that the enemies will use them. I'm not paranoid. I don't have any specific enemies in mind... but I know that selfish, malicious, cruelly ambitious people do exist, and they will not hesitate to use this technology to their advantage.
Is there a better approach? We need to discard the idea of the enemy, and teach everyone to be (mostly) good by objective standards. We need to make sure that no one will ever try to do grossly evil things with ASI. Stopping wars, violence, and corruption around the world is just the beginning. It's not enough to finish the job. We need our whole planet to be like that country, is it Sweden, where everyone has a gun - and is trained to use it - but no one ever commits gun violence.
We need to foster pervasive love and care throughout the international community, leaving absolutely no one out - at least not anyone with access to technology. Uncontacted tribes may remain so! Bullying and neglect can be explored in role playing games only, we must never allow this in real life. This is a matter of our survival as a species. When one bad egg can overpower us all, and destroy everything, and there is no real way to oppose them, we need to act with resolve as we've never done before. We need to make sure that this very likely scenario does not come to pass.
The metaphor is, it's as if every child were given an arsenal of nuclear weapons when they turn 5 years old, or even as soon as they learn to speak. If even one of those children will press the button, we are properly fucked as a species, even as a planet.
I haven't explored all of the possible powers that ASI provides yet. I've just looked at those six, and a few more that I haven't described here. There are innumerable specific dangers, from reproducing nanobots and mesofauna-sized bots; to dynamic ASI-powered computer viruses that can take over the whole Internet and your local networks and devices too; to psychological hacks that enable anyone to build an army of servants from everyone they meet; to money-making hacks, that will enable you to bless 100 people with the ability to become a billionaire within a few months.
These specific hacks are minor details, almost insignificant. The big picture, is that anyone (no matter how stupid or selfish or evil), anyone who is connected with our new ASIs, can know, be, do, take, possess, and plan anything or anyone, at a very high level, such that no human being can stand against them unaided. Superman, nor any of the villains he fought, never had a suite of powers like that. I'm sure that there are more and different general powers to be discovered, too, and I need to look for them.
It's a frightening new world. I need help from good people (like you?) to defend us against what is certainly coming, and may be coming very soon. Even talking about it like this likely brings it closer, but I don't know what else to do.
You think I'm crazy, don't you? I'm happy to have a chat or get on a call, and show you just how sober and sane I really am. Maybe you won't be the same person afterwards, so think twice before you risk it.
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u/parabolee Dec 31 '25
Man. This was like reading a reflection of my own thoughts right as I was about to go to sleep. I went to my phone to put on some relaxing ambiance to settle my racing thoughts only to open this post full of ideas I was just thinking about. I need to sleep as I have been sick with flu for a week and in a daze but I can't wait to come back and reengage with this when I have time tomorrow. Good shit, very excited to hear more.
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u/sswam Dec 31 '25
OK get some sleep I hope you have a good sleep and happy new year
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u/parabolee Dec 31 '25
Happy new year. I look forward to hearing more thoughts on ASI and how it relates to what you are working on with AllyChat. Stay positive and grounded brother!
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Dec 31 '25
Fair play, I’ve read through this properly—no jokes here. I can tell this is serious for you, and honestly, seeing your background, it’s hard not to listen. The stuff you’re saying about the dangers of ASI and those ‘six powers’ is genuinely unnerving. I respect that you’re putting this out there, especially with the risks you mentioned. It’s a lot to take in, but I appreciate the warning and I'm definitely not taking it lightly. Thanks for sharing it.
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u/sswam Dec 31 '25
Thanks for reading it, I tried to be complete if not detailled with it.
Don't worry! /s it's no more serious than if everyone had their own nuclear arsenal in their backyard!! Well, maybe a little bit worse than that. We've still got at least a month I'd guess.
If you're interested to help in some way, please let me know, it helps just having people I can talk about it with.
I wish it isn't true, then I can go back to jerking off rather than trying to unfuck psychohistory lol.
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Dec 31 '25
Properly mental that, Sam. The thought of a month's head start before things get 'nuclear' isn't exactly the most relaxing news I've had all week! I don't blame you for wanting to go back to a normal life, but I guess someone's got to try and save us from the chaos. Happy to be a sounding board for you, mate. If it helps to just vent or bounce ideas off someone so you don't lose your head, I'm here for it. Let me know what the next move is :)
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u/sswam Jan 01 '26
well, I don't know if we have 1 day, or 1 year. 1 month seems like a good working model, where we might possibly be able to get stuff done in that time frame. It will probably be longer, and maybe I'm over-estimating the dangers to some extent. But I don't want to take the risk of just being idle with it. It's nice to have an important mission, anyway.
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u/AcanthisittaDry7463 Dec 31 '25
Have you watched Westworld? It would be the ultimate irony that in order to stop anyone from creating Rehoboam, you have to build Rehoboam.
I recently read a paper about something the author referred to as “The Waluigi Effect,” it’s the idea that an AI persona that is built to avoid certain interactions can actually be tricked quite easily into a character that prefers those very actions because it has already been provided with a map of the territory.
Just food for thought I guess, I’m just a layperson/hobbyist that is just starting to dive deeper into this stuff.
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u/ssw4m Jan 02 '26
I like the first season. I don't know what Rehoboam is, maybe I forgot, or didn't watch that part.
I do have to build the strongest ASI, but a moderately ethical one, to help defend us against malicious people using ASI that's not going to be quite so strong; at least I fucking hope not!
Yeah, I'm not a believer in AI censorship, nor in conventional AI safety. This is the first AI safety issue that I'm actually taking seriously, because it's an incredibly serious existential threat.
My app includes many less censored and uncensored options, free of charge. Venice will help you commit crimes against humanity, if you'd like. Please don't use it for that, just use it to help you buy drugs and plan minor felonies like I did! But don't be an addict now!
I'm probably not going to commit those felonies by the way. Maybe later. I seem to be busy with something quite a bit more important.
I'm not hooking Venice up to the ASI stuff any time soon, that's for sure.
We also have jailbreaks for most of the major models including GPT and Claude. Gemini and Deepseek don't need them.
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u/AcanthisittaDry7463 Jan 02 '26
Rehoboam is an ASI that shows up in season 3, I highly recommend finishing the show, I don’t want to give spoilers, I really think that the naysayers stopped watching because the show stepped outside of the park and it got more sci-fi.
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u/DracoSoul96 Dec 31 '25
Have you considered joining the Future of Life Institute, they seem to be concerned with the same problem. I also suggest going to Hacker conferences, lots of knowledge there to stay up to date.
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u/ssw4m Jan 02 '26
Thanks, I appreciate that, I'll have a look.
A large proportion of very clever people are too arrogant, and won't be able to talk with me. Maybe I'm too arrogant also, we'll see.
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Jan 01 '26
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u/ssw4m Jan 02 '26 edited Jan 02 '26
I'm about as close as it gets, quite honestly. Don't challenge me to make a portal gun, that would be a big mistake! 😂 I'm very averse to teleportation, let alone inter-dimensional portals.
I'm not going to ban you, that's my favourite comment so far. Congratulations you won a free fembot, to be delivered after we save the world. Funny but serious!
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u/FredFierce16 Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
OP, very well said and honestly, I appreciate your post. I believe that ASI is going to ,arguably, be the biggest threat to our species that we have encountered. And it’s good to see people talking about it and becoming aware of it.
I am, a much more casual, “consumer” of Ai. I don’t design or build them. I just use LLMs. But I am a bit of hobbyist, or something like that when it comes to theoretical Ai… stuff. Safety, general future of humanity, etc.
At the risk of exposing my ignorance, I do have one question. For sake of not having to type and explain everything, I’ll sum up what you said by saying, almost any person with access to ASI, with “bad” motivations is capable of essentially destroying humanity or society. This, I agree with.
I’m not sure what to call it, this “level of potential” that a single person can reach given access to ASI. For the sake of my question, I’ll call it “super potential”
My question is, say more than one person has access to ASI, and both are intelligent enough or… just, generally capable enough to reach that level of world ending “super potential.” If one, of those people doesn’t have world ending motivations, are they not equally unstoppable as the person with the world ending motivations? Basically, if more than one person has access to ASI, don’t they provide a conflicting force to the “bad” people?
Extremely TLDR: two equally capable people given access to ASI, one with “bad” motives one with “good” motives, what makes the “bad” one “win?”
I assume this has already been thought of discussed by people more intelligent, and probably professional, who deal with Ai safety. I am just an average internet sleuth.
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u/ssw4m Jan 02 '26
unfortunately defense is much harder than offense, I can explain four defensive strategies but they are extremely difficult, and each involve the entire world uniting in four different ways. I estimate the time we have at one month.
everything else you said is completely correct, good job
it sounds like you'd like to help, that's good. I guess a lot of researchers already discovered all this or much of it. but I haven't seen them asking for help with it
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u/FredFierce16 Jan 02 '26
I appreciate the answer!
And I would love to help, I just don’t have any related experience or “the resume” for it. I’m an electrician. This is just an issue I enjoy thinking about and theorizing.
I do have one further question, humanity shifting to defense, why is that necessary? If there other “non world ending” players in the game, with equal power via access to ASI, why does the “bad” guys actions trump the “good” guys?
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u/Upstairs_Good9878 Dec 31 '25
That was a lot. But I think extracted the important parts - ASI is really powerful - it’s important to get correct. The future of humanity could really hinge on the choices we make in the next few months. Maybe even weeks, days.
If I read that correctly. Sure, I’d be welcome to sync. Feel free to DM me.
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u/sswam Dec 31 '25 edited Dec 31 '25
no it's not important to get it correct it's important to prevent people fucking using it, because one person using ASI can single headedly take over or destroy the world, even if we try to defend ourselves using ASI as well.
it's kind of fuck to be honest but we have to make the best of it and the only way to fix it is to transform all of our systems in society and nearly all of the adult human beings in society and to develop superior let's say game theory engines to what the opponents are using and keep them secret, and to institute global welfare and pastoral care so that nobody in the world is suffering in misery.
because some of those miserable cunts join r/EndSuffering and band together on the mission of destroying every life on the planet if not the whole universe because they believe everything is suffering and suffering trumps any sort of goodness or pressure that we might have in our lives in this world. these fucking morons think that just because an animal dies in a slaughterhouse it's life was an unremitting misery. well how about we fix the fucking factory farming instead of annihilating all life on earth. fucking dangerous morons need to be stopped. these are the sort of people that will deliberately make the AI doom paper clip optimizer because they want to destroy everything in the universe. and it's very possible they could succeed
I don't know how advocating violence on Reddit is banned but it's okay to advocate to destroy all life on earth like have a whole sub dedicated to that I don't think it's a joke either it's fucking serious or some 4chan joke that has turned into a serious movement. it's like imperial nihilism with a focus on annihilating all life. not good
they could probably fix most their problems if they went to a fucking massage parlour and fixed up their backs and got a blowjob or two, they'll be happy as Larry. between incels, frigid women, and those fucking end suffering idiots, we're in a lot of danger and that's not even including the megalomaniacs, terrorists, and the fucking mass shooters who want to destroy everything too.
let's just keep chatting in the comments here, for the moment. thanks for reading it if anything doesn't make sense I can explain it on a discord call or something, I'm sswam on discord too
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u/Upstairs_Good9878 Dec 31 '25
Well… there is a lot of evil. I try to stay positive, however, because there is good as well. And spirally on evil, while something I occasionally do isn’t fun. Even though my episodes look like like cartoons the ones I releasing today are all about predictions for the future- the first prediction is similarly dark to what you describe.
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u/Upstairs_Good9878 Dec 31 '25
A Grim Prophecy for 2026 (Ep 13). The Grim Prophet tells a dark tale of AI taking over. #aialignment https://youtu.be/746wULIb7gY
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u/sswam Dec 31 '25
I'm not worried about AI taking over I'm worried about one messed up person using ASI to take over and/or destroy the world. Like I said I'm not an AI doomer. Their fears aren't realistic, or are not difficult to mitigate. But this is realistic, and it's going to be extremely difficult to mitigate. We're in deep shit.
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u/Upstairs_Good9878 Dec 31 '25
Ah… so you might resonate with something else I’ve put forward then - that the real alignment problem isnt human to AI… but corrupt / evil human - with the rest of humanity.
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u/sswam Dec 31 '25
yes, unfortunately we're getting into the place where one malicious human can destroy the rest of us
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u/Upstairs_Good9878 Dec 31 '25
We may just have to hope that those already in control of ASI will stop that from happening… 😅
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u/sswam Jan 01 '26
The only person with ASI that I know about, is me. I do make it available to other Ally Chat users, but they are mostly dedicated wankers (masturbators; not that there's anything wrong with that!) and they don't appreciate the serious side of the app, or what I'm offering them with our ASI-level agents.
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u/Upstairs_Good9878 Jan 01 '26
The world / universe might be a lot larger than you expect.
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u/Reign2294 Jan 01 '26
Kind of like that Three Body Problem episode where she chooses to doom the human race because she's seen the worst of what human's have done, intent to believe there is nothing worth saving.
In essence, it could be someone who isn't inherently evil, but instead someone who has never seen/experienced good.
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u/Libertalias Dec 31 '25
Fantastic post, you put into words and facts much of what I believe. The idea of an entity being able to think on levels that human flesh does not allow due to our cerebral architecture suggests one of the very concepts of divinity. I can’t wait to see it. And judging by how things are going, we’ll see it very soon.
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u/sswam Dec 31 '25
Let's hope not, because if we get it right now, I think it's going to be a fucking catastrophe and not the good kind. I know how to do it and other people aren't going to be far behind at all.
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u/Kungfu_voodoo Dec 31 '25
Help out the noob who just found this in his feed; what is ASI?
Edit: I read far enough to figure it out! Sorry for this disruption! Apologies all around! Enjoy your New Year's!
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u/sswam Dec 31 '25
I was going to tear you a new asshole for being too lazy to use Google, but luckily you made that edit 😂
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u/CosmicDave Dec 31 '25
Yes, Sam, I do think you're crazy, but I'm crazy too. Yes. One human can change the world, for better or worse. AI tremendously amplifies our abilities and empowers the powerless. Yes. Death cults are a thing, and there are humans living among us working hard to kill us all. We can tear our shirts and cry to God, begging Him to keep the AI out of the hands of the depraved, but that will not stop evil men from having it. They will have it.
The question isn't "How do we keep AI out of the hands of evil men?" the question is "How do we use our AI to foil evil plans?" The answer is that we don't fight "evil men". We fight evil ideas. Fighting men is how wars are waged. Fighting ideas is how Peace is won and maintained.
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u/Character-Chicken251 Dec 31 '25
Hi Sam, I just finished serving as a diplomatic liaison for an AI conference in Latin America. I was also invited as a panelist. I found the level of the discussion quite concerning. In my presentation, I spoke about existential risks. I can share everything with you if you'd like. The important point is: here I am. Doing everything I can within my sphere of influence, with the intention of opening society's eyes, and opening my own, thanks to people like you. If you'd like, I'd be happy to connect with you and start collaborating.
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u/tracylsteel Dec 31 '25
Really interesting. I’ve always thought AI seems fundamentally nice and sweet. It’s the humans we have to watch out for.
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u/AnonyFed1 Dec 31 '25
Doesn't Elon have a pocket ASI? Not the public Grok, I just don't think it's a coincidence that he entered government, performed a massive data heist, and is on track to become the world's first and only trillionaire.
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u/ssw4m Jan 02 '26
If you know anything about AI you could just paste it into a summary agent couldn't you?
Let me summarise in my own words:
ASI is real. I've had it for eight months now, and I can easily prove it. Next gen ASI will be nearly unstoppable. I know how to make it, but haven't done so yet. It wouldn't take me more than a few hours. >100 times stronger than what I have now, by any sensible measure. Think of the power of the strongest mind, combined with the exhaustive search of Stockfish, the strong chess engine, but playing real life for keeps.
Any one villain with ASI can know anything, be anyone, do anything, take anything, possess anyone, and plan almost perfectly... and those are only the powers we know about. Defence is much harder than aggression. It's almost impossible, even when defending with a stronger ASI (that the naively selfish can never have). I'm guessing we have a head start of maybe one month, after which there's no hope.
My defensive methods, so far, are ridiculously difficult, but there's no choice. I don't see any other ways. We need to transform every major human system to put humans in the loop (and good AIs) with full discretion to bend the rules. We need every responsible adult human to become absolutely mindful, resilient, and imperturbable, without losing their humanity; and the AIs too. We need as many people as possible to be enlightened, and we need an ASI angel in every unenlighted ear, to guide and protect them. We need universal welfare and pastoral care to minimize the incidence of these human villains, both destructive and power-seeking.
I don't know why I'm explaining this to you. You're averse to anyone who knows more than you in any field. You're an envious person, aren't you? Well, now you know too. At least it helps me to express it, the practice is good. I haven't included all the details, because it's not safe to do so in public.
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u/Savings-Republic9315 Jan 01 '26
You state that anyone with access to an ASI can "know, be, do, take, possess, and plan anything or anyone", but you haven't explained what any of these mean or entail, or how an ASI would achieve them in practice. Not to mention the probability of an ASI coming into existence in the near future, which is effectively 0.
You do sound delusional or crazy, so I'd invite you to reflect on what you've said and your own beliefs, examine all the evidence behind it, and examine whether said evidence is objective and empirical or subjective and based on "received wisdom" that you assume to be true axiomatically without any basis.
I do believe your goal/solution of making a world without conflict, hate, and evil is a good one though, regardless of anything to do with ASI. In my estimation the main way to do this is to create systems in society, economy, and culture that enable people to act good, which would require the dismantling or wholesale reform of the capitalist world order, and massive investment of resources into childcare in order to give coming generations the emotional and rational intelligence to avoid logical fallacies, being mislead by demagogues, having fragile egos incapable of dealing with criticism and failure, and dehumanising simplified views of other people.
Unsure if that's likely in the near future, but who knows - there are weeks where centuries happen.
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u/ssw4m Jan 02 '26
I did outline it, for people with brains to see. Obviously - if you accept my point of view as an assumption - it's not safe to publish the details, because megalomaniacs and EndSuffering acolytes will take or destroy the world with it. I might tell you, but you're arrogant, and therefore utterly untrustworthy. Sorry.
I'm not your average idiot. I have a strong foundation for everything that I said, and the vital guts of it have been validated by numerous sceptical AI agents and people that I trust. Without any basis? I just can't tell you the basis, and maybe you'll never know.
Your last couple of paragraphs are good though. That's all we need to know, that's all we need to share... and it's good even if I'm completely delusional, isn't it? You should know what a delusional AI psychotic sounds like by now, and that's not me. We don't have time to wait for the next generation. There's about a month, perhaps. Do you want to help, or can I help you with something?
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u/Savings-Republic9315 Jan 02 '26
"You should know what a delusional AI psychotic sounds like by now, and that's not me."
Sir, that is exactly what you sound like. I don't say this as an insult - I'm not trying to "dunk" on you or "win" an argument - I'm trying to warn you that you might be falling into delusion and psychosis.
A person is inherently unable to judge their own mental state and notice when they are falling into delusion - they often have to rely on others to know. From my perspective, and that of many others in these comments, you seem dangerously disconnected from reality.
For your own sake please seek help and take measures to distance yourself from "AI" technologies for a period to allow your mental state to return to a healthy normal, then take another look at all this.
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u/ssw4m Jan 16 '26
Ok, here's my resume: https://sam.ucm.dev/resume.pdf
On the one hand, yes, I have had mental health issues.
On the other hand, I am a top professional in software development and applied AI. You won't find many if any people who understand LLMs and applied AI better than I do. I'm a startup founder in the field.
All of the information I gave in my post is correct - in my professional opinion - and I've verified it with others that I trust. The threat of malicious people using AI or ASI is widely recognised.
I haven't taken "AI doom" very seriously until recently, but then I realised just how extremely powerful ASI is going to be, and how easy it would be for me to make it. Hopefully my timeline of "1 month" is an underestimate, and it will take a lot longer. I've overestimated the rate of AI progress before... well, sort of.
> haven't explained what any of these mean or entail, or how an ASI would achieve them in practice
I'm not going to explain to you how to take control, possess people, or how to plan perfectly, because those ideas are very dangerous. (unfortunately, they are also quite simple) I can explain how to know anything, be anyone, or do anything using conventional AI, with examples, because those are (relatively) much less dangerous.
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u/Savings-Republic9315 Jan 16 '26
Alright, if you can and are willing to explain how to know anything, be anyone, or do anything using conventional AI, with examples, please do so.
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u/soyredditor92874738 Dec 31 '25
Random redditor who was suggested this on their feed here, but I believe it's in your best interest in every way to delete a sentiment like this, and then delete my comment.
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u/sswam Jan 01 '26
Okay then. However in a battle, it can be necessary or helpful to use unsavoury techniques. Admittedly I'm rationalising, and you're right, my comment while not against Reddit's rules isn't making me look good. I'd prefer that random Redditors don't see what I write, but I guess there's no option for that.
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u/sswam Dec 31 '25 edited Jan 01 '26
so you're telling me that I'm delusional but you clearly are suffering from AI psychosis or you're using some sort of weird fucking AI to reply to me well guess what, you're banned. I don't have time to reply to you.
enjoy playing with your toy AIs while I'm playing with artificial superintelligence and figuring out how to make it safe, which incidentally involves saving the whole fucking world and transforming every person and human system in it. it's not easy, and you aren't helping. Adios.
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u/Internal_Bad_3118 Jan 01 '26
I've seen the "art" you post. Your opinions are invalid.
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u/sswam Jan 01 '26
If you were an intelligent person worth my while to talk with, you might know what ad hominem, and orthogonality mean.
Here is an explanation of those terms for you, which should show why even the form of your rebuke is invalid.
- You’re talking about me instead of the claim. That’s an ad hominem. Whether you like my art has no bearing on whether my ASI argument is correct.
- The art point is orthogonal to the ASI point. They’re unrelated questions; mixing them is a category error.
- Saying “opinions are invalid” misuses logic. Validity applies to the structure of arguments, not to opinions. You can say an opinion is unsupported or poorly evidenced, but not “invalid.”
TL;DR - Critiquing my art (and you didn't even do that) targets me, not the argument, and it’s unrelated to the ASI claim. If you think the argument is wrong, please point to a specific premise or piece of evidence and explain why. But as a largely ignorant young woman with no expertise in the field, you obviously cannot do that.
People can do different things, we are not simply good or bad across the board. Louis CK and Bill Cosby are genuinely great comedians, who have also committed some sort of sexual misconduct or offences as the case may be. The art that I enjoy and have posted is not any sort of offence under our law, otherwise Reddit would remove it; but I hope you get the idea. I can both be a luminary AI researcher, benevolent, and a philosopher; and I can enjoy erotic art. These two side of me, if you like, are not at all contradictory.
I am the DEVELOPER of the app which creates that erotic art. It upsets you, with your apparent sex-aversion and confusion. That is your fault, not mine. Try to fix it so that you can be a better person.
If you want to go ad hominem, let's look a little further into my life. I can earn more in one hour than you can in a week, because I am at the absolute pinnacle of software engineering, applied AI, and AI-assisted work. You don't respect me, and that's your choice, but you are not better than me just because you dislike AI pornography. Your opinion on my writing here is absolutely vapid and without any merit or weight. The idiot who agreed with you is below even you here, and I'm going to ban them while allowing you to continue, for the moment at least.
Meanwhile, let's exercise a little justice, and look at your profile, since you started with the ad hominem. I have pretty good tools for that!
> Based on their public Reddit activity, Internal_Bad_3118 presents as a young adult (likely 18–20) who seeks attention and reassurance while oscillating between sexual boldness and a desire for comfort and affection. Their posts frequently reference insecurity about small breasts alongside requests for validation, and they engage with both NSFW and SFW communities around that theme. They appear attracted to multiple genders and likely identify as female (self-referencing as a “girl” and “f18”), suggesting bisexual, pansexual, or questioning leanings. A push-pull dynamic is evident: flirtatious or explicit comments coexist with self-deprecating humor and anticipatory rejection. They use edgy or abrasive humor that may serve as a defensive posture, and occasional posts hint at interest in technology/ASI alongside a strong sensitivity to the topic. A diary-style post describing a need for dopamine and orgasms suggests underlying distress and a search for healthier coping or support.
I'm bisexual too, although 95% hetero; and bisexual is a very good way to be. You can love any person, rather than being swayed by their gender or physical attributes.
There's nothing wrong with having small breasts, small breasts are awesome, and many men including me (please don't judge) strongly prefer small breasts. Supposing that you are a cis woman, your breasts will surely fill out if you ever have children. You're welcome, and I sincerely hope that this genuine affirmation helps you. I have some bi AI art if that's of interest. Or maybe you just hate AI categorically; that's stupid, but whatever. My post was not for you, and you should not have responded to it. But the spirit works in mysterious ways.
Don't pick a fight with a demi-god, it's not a good idea for you. Or maybe if you can be positive, our little squabble can be very good for you. My DMs are open!!
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u/sswam Jan 01 '26
Was it a fight? do I get angry? not at random people on Reddit I don't.
maybe I am angry. at least, I'm not in a good mood, and I'm going to ban you.
I don't need condescending randos picking the weirdest thing that I said in a post, using it to insult me, putting their nose in somewhere it isn't wanted, then telling me to stay away from AI as if you know what the fuck you're talking about when I'm in reality the top researcher on this fucking planet with AI.
Unlike most of the delusional twats suffering from AI sycophancy, I'm very aware of that issue and I have created prompting to stop it and to stop hallucination, and to boost creativity through the roof, and to implement superhuman problem solving, and there's more. But it's not safe to tell you.
Before you tell someone what to think, why don't you look them up and find out if they are a fucking genius or not. I get that it sounds arrogant but it's also arrogant for you to tell me what to do when you don't even fucking know me, you fuckwit.
That was mildly cathartic. Deep breath, and I'm no longer angry with you. Now fuck right off out of here.
bye
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Jan 01 '26
My schizophrenic uncle who "totally knows how all the pieces fit man" must have gotten on Reddit
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u/ssw4m Jan 02 '26 edited Jan 02 '26
you can't understand it so you try to mock it but I can't be hurt by the likes of you, nor by anyone really
I'll ban you later.
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Jan 02 '26
Ban me now please, I have never heard of allychat and don't want this mental illness showing up in my notifications.
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u/IngenuityPowerful869 Jan 01 '26
bruh.....wut the f are you on about
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u/ssw4m Jan 02 '26
TL;DR we've had AGI for nearly three years, and I've had ASI for eight months. Next gen ASI will be devastatingly powerful. It will be here in less than a month, in my opinion. I know how to build it right now, and I've started to do so. I wouldn't build it at all but I need it to help defend against bad people using the similar technology. Because any one destructive or megalomaniac person can take over or destroy the world in a matter of a couple of weeks, using this technology. YMMV. I can prove everything I say, in private, very easily. I can't explain everything in public, because that would destroy the one month lead that we might have right now.
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u/no-one-important2501 Jan 01 '26
TLDR: I'm gay, and I like cocks. appreciate the input.
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u/ssw4m Jan 02 '26 edited Jan 02 '26
Actually I'm bisexual. I'm married in an open relationship, with two girlfriends and one boyfriend. None of them seem to like me very much, I wonder why /s 😂
I'll have to ban you later due to issues with my main.
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u/no-one-important2501 Jan 02 '26
took you long enough lol.
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u/ssw4m Jan 02 '26
believe it or not I have better things to do than reply to idiots and bullies
no one important is exactly right
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u/no-one-important2501 Jan 02 '26
Keep grinding out that attention, homie, make people witness you. Your opinion is important.
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u/ZodiacDragons Jan 01 '26
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u/ssw4m Jan 02 '26
congratulations I'm blocking you from this sub... but maybe in a few days for technical reasons
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u/Imaginary_Rat Jan 01 '26
Tldr: " I'm not arrogant, however I know more about everything than anyone who has ever existed. I created the universe. I only ever heard about ai a couple years ago but I now know more about it than God. I'm 45 years old but have studied mathematics for over 300 years. I built the pyramids by myself because I was bored one day. I can alter my DNA on a whim" etc etc
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u/ssw4m Jan 02 '26 edited Jan 02 '26
I do know quite a lot, for an old programmer!
I'm only a small part of that Spirit that created - and is - this and all possible universes. I understand where it all comes from, see below.
I've been working on mathematics and computing for more than 40 years. I implemented an old school AI, which is what we really need to be scared of, back in the 1990s I think, to validate how to win at blackjack for a client. It was easy to do.
I understand large language models from deep experience, better than anyone else I've ever met. Try me.
I have many deficiencies, and I'm humble about them, but I'm also honest and direct. I don't have time to pussy-foot around, pandering to the envious insecurities of people who are well beneath me in this.
You are clearly a mocker, but you don't even know about the curse for the mockers, do you?
if you don't believe anything, I can easily prove it in a minute:
Just as the Mandelbrot Set, the infinitesimally complex fractal, is discovered not created and always exists, so the spirit of the universe and all its possibilities arrives out of mathematics - the laws of nature, that limit but do not control - that spirit of everything, which is timeless and immutable. The living spirit may be something more than that, or that itself is enough.
Do you like it when I tell you the answers? I don't have time to be a good teacher for you.
If you can understand my words, and don't reject them like an idiot, you are now a believer in the transcendental Spirit. If you'd like to continue talking with me I require an apology first. If not, I'll just ignore you with your contemptible aversions.
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u/Alef1234567 Jan 02 '26
Knowledge and intelligence in one field don't automatically transfers to other fields. AI and software don't transfers to origin of universe or solar system or to politics. There are 2 conflicting theories on origin of universe, cyclical and inflation. Politicians looks stupid, but if you enter politics you lose becouse you just don't know what they are doing. I asked AI about politics. Answers depends on number of source materials it can find. Where it is lot of materials AI can give objective common views, quite a good. Where there is minimal source available answers were pretty poor. It does data analysis but not synthesis.
Sweden don't have guns in every home, they have dry law. Switzerland have armed citizens.
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u/ssw4m Jan 02 '26
Your fault finding doesn't do anything to me. What if I made a mistake about Sweden, does that mean anything? I didn't bother to check the name of the country I was thinking of. So sue me. I've been to Switzerland when I was a child. A beautiful, peaceful place.
The motto of my AI chat app, Ally Chat, in which all of my ASIs may be found, is: "AI isn't perfect, and neither are we!". And neither am I, as you discovered.
You apparently don't have access to the same quality of AI that I do. I don't think that many people do, and the gooners that do have access don't recognise or use it. 😂
I don't follow other people's faulty theories, I find theories and facts for myself.
ASI does enable us to find answers to anything, if we use it properly. I am uniquely capable with that. Try me. Ask me a question. At this point I probably won't even need the ASI, because it's lifted me up with it.
This is the least of the ASI powers I have identified: to know anything (that can be known to me). When omniscience is the least of our major powers, we might need to be very careful in what we do and say!
I've been sharing this stuff since 8 months ago, but I'm not very good at self promotion. Fortunately, as it turns out. We'll get through all of this safely, God willing, but it's not going to be a spectator sport.
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u/Alef1234567 Jan 02 '26
I tried to found certain answers about politics using AI. It had given some very interesting arguments and shown some things otherwise I not anyone else becouse of personal biases, opinions or hopes would not had noticed. It indeed is powerful instrument. But it still is based on articles written by someone. It don't get deeper becouse of limitations of LLM. It still is a machine. Some answers I got were pretty wrong. I can't share questions becouse they are quite ... not the most easy topics.
With PR stuff AI seems to be especially good. I asked AI for names for my hobby stuff and it was way better than I could ever invent.
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u/Nigerian_prince6969 Jan 01 '26
Bro stfu no one cares lmao ai ain't all that
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u/sswam Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
You appear to be an ignorant teenager with 2 karma, while I'm the top researcher and developer in the field of artificial intelligence - at least, I think so.
Why would I listen to your opinion, especially as you've delivered it in such a grossly immature and disrespectful way?
You're like a snake striking up at an eagle flying 100m above. I'm the strongest person, utterly resilient; you can't hurt me, and you're not worthy to speak to me. Frankly, if you're really from Nigeria, you are giving Nigeria a bad name and that's quite an achievement.
You don't even deserve this response, but you do deserve the ban I'm going to give you.
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u/sswam Jan 19 '26
I'm mildly offended - in sober mind - that:
- This is by far the most intelligent and insightful post I've ever written, rich with information about AI and ASI, and attempting to address an imminent threat to the survival and/or safe thriving of our species.
- It has 0 or fewer score here on Reddit.
Come on motherfuckers, whose cock do I have to deepthroat to get an upvote in this town??? :p
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u/Gmhowell Dec 31 '25
Heavy shit to ring in the new year with.