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| | idlewords.com
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| | [AI summary] The speaker critiques the overemphasis on AI existential risks, arguing that current AI systems pose more immediate ethical concerns such as surveillance, bias, and power dynamics. They compare the current state of AI research to alchemy, suggesting that we are still in the early stages of understanding the mind and should focus on practical challenges rather than speculative fears. The speaker advocates for better science fiction and more grounded ethical discussions to guide AI development, emphasizing the need for humility and practical solutions over alarmism.
| | www.greaterwrong.com
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| | Robin Hanson proposed stores where banned products could be sold.1 There are a number of excellent arguments for such a policy-an inherent right of individual liberty, the career incentive of bureaucrats to prohibit everything, legislators being just as biased as individuals. But even so (I replied), some poor, honest, not overwhelmingly educated mother of five children is going to go into these stores and buy a "Dr. Snakeoil's Sulfuric Acid Drink" for her arthritis and die, leaving her orphans to weep on national television.
| | multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com
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| | I recently wrote a blog post about my own AI project , but it attracted a bunch of adversarial comments from folks influenced by the Singula...
| | www.physicalintelligence.company
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| Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world.