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www.lesswrong.com | ||
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rsbakker.wordpress.com
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| | | | | "Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past," Yuval Noah Harari writes. "It enables us to turn our heads this way and that, and to begin to notice possibilities that our ancestors could not imagine, or didn't want us to imagine" (59). Thus does the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of... | |
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | Artificial intelligence has made incredible progress in the last decade, but in one crucial aspect, it still lags behind the theoretical computer science of the 1990s: namely, there is no essay describing five potential worlds that we could live in and giving each one of them whimsical names. In other words, no one has done... | |
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www.alignmentforum.org
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| | | | | This piece gives an overview of the alignment problem and makes the case for AI alignment research. It is crafted both to be broadly accessible to th... | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | This is a new introduction to AI as an extinction threat, previously posted to the MIRI website in February alongside a summary. It was written independently of Eliezer and Nate's forthcoming book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, and isn't a sneak peak of the book. Since the book is long and costs money, we expect this to be a valuable resource in its own right even after the book comes out next month.[1] The stated goal of the world's leading AI companies is to build AI that is general enough to do anything a human can do, from solving hard problems in theoretical physics to deftly navigating social environments. Recent machine learning progress seems to have brought this goal within reach. At this point, we would be uncomfortable ruling out the possibi... | ||
