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Usually the doom conversation is binary. Either the AI will try to take over the world for his own reward function as is discussed in all the alignment problem debates OR a malicious dictator or bad actor will leverage the technology's power to take over the world, create 1984's style...
We are on the brink of the unimaginable. Humanity is about to cross a threshold that will redefine life as we know it: the creation of intelligence surpassing our own. This is not science fiction—it’s unfolding right now, within our lifetimes. The ripple effects of this seismic event will alter...
Lights Aurelio is stuck looking at the back of his car. Seems there is a note for him in Hebrew, written by finger on the dusty window. There is only one person that speaks it in his inner circle, his best friend Chloe, who he hasn’t seen for a while....
Setting the stage Being a polyglot is a problem of definition first. Who can be described as a polyglot? At what level do you actually “speak” the given language? Some sources cite that polyglot means speaking more than 4 languages, others 6. My take is it doesn’t matter. I am...
In current thinking X-risk includes the possibility of human extinction. True, everyone is probably thinking in ranges of outcomes with probabilities scattered but if a non-aligned AI actually tries to attack humans usually a very high probability of extinction is assumed although nobody has ever quantified it. I propose here...
It’s clear that we live in unprecedented times. There is a minority of the global population that is in the process of realizing what X-Risk means. Some got it much earlier than others but for the rest of us mere mortals out there it was a bit more difficult to...