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Takeoff & Takeover

Feb 22, 2022 by Raemon

Imagine an advanced society, with complex structures more intricate and intelligent than anything that exists today – a society which nevertheless lacks any being that is conscious, or whose welfare has moral significance. In a sense, this would be an uninhabited society. It would be a society of economic miracles and technological awesomeness, with nobody there to benefit. A Disneyland with no children.
– Nick Bostrom

215Draft report on AI timelines

5y

56

154The date of AI Takeover is not the day the AI takes over

Daniel Kokotajlo

5y

32

220An overview of 11 proposals for building safe advanced AI

5y

37

182Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover

Daniel Kokotajlo

6y

80

134Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction

5y

48

156Biology-Inspired AGI Timelines: The Trick That Never Works

Eliezer Yudkowsky

4y

144

149Reply to Eliezer on Biological Anchors

HoldenKarnofsky

4y

46

140Against GDP as a metric for timelines and takeoff speeds

Daniel Kokotajlo

5y

19

206Some AI research areas and their relevance to existential safety

5y

37

157My computational framework for the brain

5y

26

81How uniform is the neocortex?

5y

24

191Discontinuous progress in history: an update

5y

25