nah I’m more in the “sudden disempowerment” camp www.alignmentforum.org/posts/yew6zF...
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Steve Byrnes
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Researching Artificial General Intelligence Safety, via thinking about neuroscience and algorithms, at Astera Institute. https://sjbyrnes.com/agi.html
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Foom & Doom 1: “Brain in a box in a basement” — AI Alignment Forum alignmentforum.org
Will almost all future companies eventually be founded and run by autonomous AIs? — LessWrong lesswrong.com
What do I mean by “Artificial General Intelligence”? — LessWrong lesswrong.com
Steve Byrnes’s Shortform — LessWrong lesswrong.com
Notes on technical alignment via human-like social drives — AI Alignment Forum alignmentforum.org
[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 6. Big picture of motivation, decision-making, and RL — LessWrong lesswrong.com
Sympathy for both sides of the egregious misalignment debate — AI Alignment Forum alignmentforum.org
Articles & links
Blog post: “Will almost all future companies eventually be founded and run by autonomous AIs?” I think this question is a great conversation-starter for people talking past each other on the future of AI. I go through some common responses, and my own replies (1/3) www.lesswro…
Blog post: What do I mean by “Artificial General Intelligence”? I paint a brief picture of what I’m talking about when I talk about “AGI”. Should seem obvious to many, and obviously wrong to many others! Hope it can help surface disagreements. www.lesswrong.com/posts/nQH2Gh...
Just updated the “Intro to Brain-Like-AGI Safety” PDF to version 4. Links in QT ↓ A few highlights from the changelog are listed here: www.lesswrong.com/posts/btHmC8...
Blog post: “Notes on technical alignment via human-like social drives” www.alignmentforum.org/posts/rKdS7i...
If someone is on a hunger strike for freedom, they’ll say that their desire to eat comes from their innate drives, whereas their desire to fight for freedom comes from “reason” etc. I think this intuition is very wrong; here’s my latest attempt to articulate why www.lesswrong.…
Blog post: “Sympathy for both sides of the egregious misalignment debate” www.alignmentforum.org/posts/DZaZ3f...
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I’ll probably annoy all sides with this not-really-an-apology that I just tacked onto the beginning of my LLM-skepticism-related post from Apr 2023
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