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www.lesswrong.com | ||
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | Suppose you think that reducing the risk of human extinction is the highest-value thing you can do. Or maybe you want to reduce "x-risk" because you're already a comfortable First-Worlder like me and so you might as well do something epic and cool, or because you like the community of people who are doing it already, or whatever. Suppose also that you think AI is the most pressing x-risk, because (1) mitigating AI risk could mitigate all other existential risks, but not vice-versa, and because (2) AI is plausibly the first existential risk that will occur. | |
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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | I have some exciting news (for me, anyway). Starting next week, I'll be going on leave from UT Austin for one year, to work at OpenAI. They're the creators of the astonishing GPT-3 and DALL-E2, which have not only endlessly entertained me and my kids, but recalibrated my understanding of what, for better and worse,... | |
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thezvi.wordpress.com
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| | | | | With the year ending and my first Vox post coming out, this week was a natural time to take stock. I wrote my first best-of post in a long time and laid out my plans for my 501c(3). It was also another eventful week. We got a lot more clarity on the OpenAI situation, although... | |
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www.livescience.com
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| | | The Bering Land Bridge likely didn't emerge until around 35,000 years ago, much later than was previously thought. | ||
