I wonder, in the aftermath of the US bombing of Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities, how this will affect future possibilities of performing a 'Yudkowskyan strike' on datacenters. Will this effectively drive advanced AI development underground to nuclear and bunker bomb proof locations?
1The book will probably be a treat to read, but since "someone" (Open AI, Anthropic, Google, META et al.) apparently WILL build "it" everyone WILL die. Oh well, we had a good run I guess.
Design of the frontpage: No. I am fan of the white clean design with the occasional AI generated image. The current iteration reduces readability a lot.
Since a lot of people disagree with this, please tell me what a score of 100% mean or say 50% or 37%? I am not writing this to provoke, I am genuinely interested to know.
- Feedback: I really like the breakdown of each companies stance on safety, but please skíp the percentage numbers. Its just silly to give a score based on guesswork.
Brace for impact. Everyone with a desk job should start to plan for alternative exit strategies.
Angry that doctors had spent years teaching her to delay treatment by dismissing her concerns.
Sorry for your loss, but thank you for reminding us how precious life is.
The quoted sentence from your post is I believe the main reasons why doctors (doctors not surgeons) will be one of the first high-status professions to be replaced by AI in a couple of years . If you can just get comprehensive blood work done (you could draw blood in a drop-in booth in a mall and send to a lab) and my some pictures taken of your body and then have a conversation with an AI about the symptoms you experience, the need to go to a psychical grumpy stressed doctor is no more needed or even something you would like to do when you will get much much better and consistent results from the AI doctor who treat you with respect and dignity and do no check his or her watch every minute.
1And should we still think that a mere text message could increase yields for the hundreds of millions who work in farming?
Maybe. If you can use your phone to take photos of soil samples for image analysis paired with data which crop you intent to grow and weather data, why would it be far fetched to assume that an AI could give not you good advice on irrigation and fertilizers etc via text messages?
Body doubling / coworking; this doesn’t work for everyone, but I find that this robustly lowers the activation energy costs and reduces distractions.
I have found that for me a simple pomodoro timer (25min work/5 minute break) fixes a lot of procrastination issues / distractions. It's weird how that little timer can make me focus and make me feel responsible to not let my mind wander.
Thank you for an excellent post.
The results and studies discussed in the post further validate a feeling I have had about longevity for some time: that there is not much a person living a "normal" life with decent eating, exercise, social, and sleeping habits can do to significantly extend their lifespan. There is no silver bullet that, from a reasonably "normal" health baseline, can routinely give you 5 or 10 extra years, let alone 1 or 2 years.
In this regard, current science has failed, and I think the whole longevity research community needs to reassess the way forward. No matter how much pill-swallowing, cold-bath-taking, HIIT-training, and sleep-optimizing they (we) do, it does not really work.