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Suggestion: end sicknesses with an official end-of-sickness ritual

There are lots of ways humans benefit from being limited, many connected to being trustworthy.
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Katja Grace
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What does the trajectory look like toward AI surpassing us at these 'capabilities' that involve a lack of capability?

I’ve really wanted more good short accounts of why AI poses an existential risk. Working on one myself has been one of those incredibly high priorities I keep putting off. Meanwhile Ben Bradford of NPR, has just made a podcast version of my case for AI x-risk that I am thrilled with!
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Katja Grace
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Bonus within the 39 minutes: what Hamza Chaudhry of FLI thinks we should do about it (who I was delighted to later meet as a consequence!)

Does anyone have a really satisfying way to store clothes? An account of my present objections to approximately all of the ones I know of, which I'm not recommending you read unless you are curious or want a break from talking about AI: worldspiritsockpuppet.substack…

I hate the way ads add a bunch of fake commercially incentivized voices to the conversation. AI is taking it further, which I dislike for these reasons and more!

I generally enjoy talking to journalists and am not very stressed or strategic about it. Am I doing it wrong? worldspiritsockpuppet.substack…

I've lately come to think of multi-person organizations as an overpowered negotiating tool

We should be talking seriously about coordination around not building dangerous AI.

Common wisdom says that it is incredibly hard to coordinate to not build more dangerous AI...but is that just naive?

AI as a Trojan Horse Race
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Katja Grace
Katja Grace
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I think people struggle to differentiate between a situation that legitimately incentivizes racing and on the other hand people moving fast

Q: Is the AI Impacts survey methodology any good?

A: Yes—I explain in an FAQ:

aiimpacts.substack.com/p/faq-e…


FAQ: Expert Survey on Progress in AI methodology

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Many humans being powerless is a familiar situation, but we think like there's some law against every human being powerless. That changes if you introduce a new species with superior performance at everything.
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Ben Millwood
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also changes if you introduce a species with superior performance at the right things, while still not (maybe even far from) everything

Transcription software creates a better record of what I say when I'm experiencing transcription software than is ideal

If I lie down and close my eyes, I often get right to sleep. However, doing so sounds dreadful: I want to live! There are a handful of kinds of living that actually make me sleepy though, and one of them is mathy puzzles you can do in your head. Anyone have good ones?
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Ben Millwood
Ben Millwood
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curious for existing examples of the thing, both for guiding what responses I think are appropriate and also so I can try using them too :P
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