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[HUMAN VOICE] "A Shutdown Problem Proposal" by johnswentworth, David Lorell

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Brute Force Manufactured Consensus is Hiding the Crime of the Century

People often parse information through an epistemic consensus filter. They do not ask "is this true", they ask "will others be OK with me thinking th…

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[HUMAN VOICE] "Without fundamental advances, misalignment and catastrophe are the default outcomes of training powerful AI" by Jeremy Gillen, peterbarnett

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Leading The Parade

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Terminology: Counterfactual Impact vs “Leading The Parade”

Y’know how a parade or marching band has a person who walks in front waving a f…

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[HUMAN VOICE] "The case for ensuring that powerful AIs are controlled" by ryan_greenblatt, Buck

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Processor clock speeds are not how fast AIs think

I often encounter some confusion about whether the fact that synapses in the brain typically fire at frequencies of 1-100 Hz while the clock frequenc…

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Without fundamental advances, misalignment and catastrophe are the default outcomes of training powerful AI

A pdf version of this report is available here.

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In this report we argue that AI systems capable of large scale scientific research will like…

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Making every researcher seek grants is a broken model

This is a linkpost for https://rootsofprogress.org/the-block-funding-model-for-scienceWhen Galileo wanted to study the heavens through his telescope,…

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The case for training frontier AIs on Sumerian-only corpus

Let your every day be full of joy, love the child that holds your hand, let your wife delight in your embrace, for these alone are the concerns of hu…

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This might be the last AI Safety Camp

We are organising the 9th edition without funds. We have no personal runway left to do this again. We will not run the 10th edition without funding. …

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