MIRI Updates
Status: This was a response to a draft of Holden’s cold take “AI safety seems hard to measure”. It sparked a further discussion, that Holden recently posted a summary of. The follow-up discussion ended up focusing on some issues in...
Meta This post is an attempt to gesture at a class of AI notkilleveryoneism (alignment) problem that seems to me to go largely unrecognized. E.g., it isn’t discussed (or at least I don’t recognize it) in the recent plans written...
Eliezer gave a very frank overview of his take on AI two weeks ago on the cryptocurrency show Bankless: I’ve posted a transcript of the show and a follow-up Q&A below. Thanks to Andrea_Miotti, remember, and vonk for help posting...
Sam Altman shared me on a draft of his OpenAI blog post Planning for AGI and beyond, and I left some comments, reproduced below without typos and with some added hyperlinks. Where the final version of the OpenAI post differs...
Writing down something I’ve found myself repeating in different conversations: If you’re looking for ways to help with the whole “the world looks pretty doomed” business, here’s my advice: look around for places where we’re all being total idiots. Look...
(Epistemic status: attempting to clear up a misunderstanding about points I have attempted to make in the past. This post is not intended as an argument for those points.) I have long said that the lion’s share of the AI...
