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Back to Search“Notes on fatalities from AI takeover” by ryan_greenblatt
Suppose misaligned AIs take over. What fraction of people will die? I'll discuss my thoughts on this question and my basic framework for thinking ab…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
“Nice-ish, smooth takeoff (with imperfect safeguards) probably kills most ‘classic humans’ in a few decades.” by Raemon
I wrote my recent Accelerando post to mostly stand on it's own as a takeoff scenario. But, the reason it's on my mind is that, if I imagine being ve…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
“Omelas Is Perfectly Misread” by Tobias H
The Standard Reading
If you've heard of Le Guin's ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’, you probably know the basic idea. It's a go-to story for disc…9 months, 3 weeks ago
“Ethical Design Patterns” by AnnaSalamon
Related to: Commonsense Good, Creative Good (and my comment); Ethical Injunctions.
Epistemic status: I’m fairly sure “ethics” does useful work in bu…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
“You’re probably overestimating how well you understand Dunning-Kruger” by abstractapplic
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The popular conception of Dunning-Kruger is something along the lines of “some people are too dumb to know they’re dumb, and end up thinking they’…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
“Reasons to sell frontier lab equity to donate now rather than later” by Daniel_Eth, Ethan Perez
Tl;dr: We believe shareholders in frontier labs who plan to donate some portion of their equity to reduce AI risk should consider liquidating and do…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
“CFAR update, and New CFAR workshops” by AnnaSalamon
Hi all! After about five years of hibernation and quietly getting our bearings,[1] CFAR will soon be running two pilot mainline workshops, and may r…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
“Why you should eat meat - even if you hate factory farming” by KatWoods
Cross-posted from my Substack
To start off with, I’ve been vegan/vegetarian for the majority of my life.
I think that factory farming has caused mo…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
[Linkpost] “Global Call for AI Red Lines - Signed by Nobel Laureates, Former Heads of State, and 200+ Prominent Figures” by Charbel-Raphaël
This is a link post. Today, the Global Call for AI Red Lines was released and presented at the UN General Assembly. It was developed by the French Ce…
10 months ago
“This is a review of the reviews” by Recurrented
This is a review of the reviews, a meta review if you will, but first a tangent. and then a history lesson. This felt boring and obvious and somewha…
10 months ago