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Suffering risks, or s-risks, are "risks of events that bring about suffering in cosmically significant amounts" (Althaus and Gloor 2016).1 This article will discuss why the reduction of s-risks could be a candidate for a top priority among altruistic causes aimed at influencing the long-term future. The number of sentient beings in the future might be astronomical, and certain cultural, evolutionary, and technological forces could cause many of these beings to have lives dominated by severe suffering. S-...
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[Yet another "philosophizing" post, but one with some actual numbers. See also this follow up. --Boaz] Recently there have been many debates on "artificial general intelligence" (AGI) and whether or not we are close to achieving it by scaling up our current AI systems. In this post, I'd like to make this debate a bit...
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"Human feedbackon diverse tasks" could lead to transformative AI, while requiring little innovation on current techniques. But it seems likely that...
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