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What is the "Less Wrong" approved acronym for 1984-risk?

by Logan Zoellner
10th Sep 2022
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What is the "Less Wrong" approved acronym for 1984-risk?
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6interstice
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4Martin Randall
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Yoav Ravid

Sep 10, 2022

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Totalitarianism seems to work just fine. If you want a shorthand for that, perhaps you can write T-risk.

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Chinese Room

Sep 10, 2022

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Perhaps U+1984 or ᦄ-Risk

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Nate Showell

Sep 10, 2022

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"Risk of stable totalitarianism" is the term I've seen.

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interstice

Sep 10, 2022

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Nick Bostrom has a taxonomy of different existential risks which would refer to this class of things as 'shrieks'

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[-]Logan Zoellner3y10

It certainly seems like it fits in that category.

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Martin Randall

Sep 11, 2022

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1984-Risk is clear and concise, I don't think we'll do better.

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Mateusz Bagiński

Jan 04, 2023

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Caplan called it the "totalitarian threat"

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Capybasilisk

Sep 11, 2022

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O-risk, in deference to Orwell.

I do believe Huxley's Brave New World is a far more likely future dystopia than Orwell's. 1984 is too tied to its time of writing.

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I suspect the terminology we use shapes the discussions we have.

We have X-Risk for extinction, and S-risk for Roko's basilisk torturing us all.

What is the common way of referring to the thing we were all terrified of in the late 20th century, namely that corporations and government would finally get together and work out a way to oppress everyone for all of time.

I want a universally comprehensible way of writing sentences like "Stable Diffusion increases X-risk by accelerating AI development, but decreases 1984-Risk by making it less likely that AI will be centrally controlled".