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thezvi.wordpress.com
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| | | | | OpenAI is here this week to show us the money, as in a $100 billion investment from Nvidia and operationalization of a $400 billion buildout for Stargate. They are not kidding around when it comes to scale. They're going to need it, as they are announcing soon a slate of products that takes inference costs... | |
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longtermrisk.org
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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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joecarlsmith.com
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| | | | | It's really important; we have a real shot; there are a lot of ways we can fail. | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | The DeepMind mech interp team has pivoted from chasing the ambitious goal of complete reverse-engineering of neural networks, to a focus on pragmatically making as much progress as we can on the critical path to preparing for AGI to go well, and choosing the most important problems according to our comparative advantage. We believe that this pragmatic approach has already shown itself to be more promising. We don't claim that these ideas are unique, indeed we've been helped to these conclusions by the thoughts of many others both in academia (1 2 3) and the safety community (1 2 3). But we have found this framework helpful for accelerating our progress, and hope to distill and communicate it to help other have more impact. We close with recommendations for h... | ||
