Well the most pressing question is whether it will kill us all. There are good reasons to suspect that; Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014) remains my favorite introduction to this thorny…
Agreed with you that (a) AGI is a real, transformative, and possibly calamitous event, and (b) with the amount of money getting pumped into it we will almost certainly get there. However, I have a personal hobby horse…
>[D]oesn't mean they don't exist Never said they don't exist, merely that they are "minimal", aka no other policy I could think of seems like it would obviously lead to lower costs while still achieving the desired…
I wrote a short essay about using a little known economic system to combat black ball technologies in Nick Bostrom's sense. I keep it online now, even though I have since developed some private criticisms of it, because…
Alignment is hard, maybe impossible. Implementing alignment is at least as hard, and might be much harder. Perhaps there is the option to just not build an AGI, safe or unsafe, in the first place. For one person, this…
>Oh wait…every hedge fund bro is already doing this. And most of them aren’t billionaires. The contra to this is some of them are billionaires, and therefore this strategy is working, but for just a few of them. >why…
Well the most pressing question is whether it will kill us all. There are good reasons to suspect that; Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014) remains my favorite introduction to this thorny…
Agreed with you that (a) AGI is a real, transformative, and possibly calamitous event, and (b) with the amount of money getting pumped into it we will almost certainly get there. However, I have a personal hobby horse…
>[D]oesn't mean they don't exist Never said they don't exist, merely that they are "minimal", aka no other policy I could think of seems like it would obviously lead to lower costs while still achieving the desired…
I wrote a short essay about using a little known economic system to combat black ball technologies in Nick Bostrom's sense. I keep it online now, even though I have since developed some private criticisms of it, because…
Alignment is hard, maybe impossible. Implementing alignment is at least as hard, and might be much harder. Perhaps there is the option to just not build an AGI, safe or unsafe, in the first place. For one person, this…
>Oh wait…every hedge fund bro is already doing this. And most of them aren’t billionaires. The contra to this is some of them are billionaires, and therefore this strategy is working, but for just a few of them. >why…