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> “One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don’t know what’s going to happen next.” — attributed to Bix Beiderbecke. I hate lectures. I refuse to waste my one wild precious life watching a presenter fumble with what to say about slide seven. When I’m bringing together...
If we're going to have powerful AI advisors shaping decisions across society — and, spoiler, we already do — then whether those advisors reason honestly and well is incredibly important. This matters for the prosaic reason that AI advisors will guide all kinds of everyday decisions, and for the more...
We're writing this in our personal capacity. While our work at the Future of Life Foundation has recently focused on this topic and informs our thinking here, this specific presentation of our views are our own. Knowledge is integral to living life well, at all scales: * Individuals manage their...
If you’re going to learn a new skill or change in some way, going hard at it for a short intensive period beats spreading a gentler effort across months or years. I’m on day 29 of Inkhaven, where we committed to writing a blog post a day for a month....
The Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth in December 1620, badly weakened by the voyage. That first winter killed roughly half of them—disease, starvation, exposure. They were in desperate straits, lacking knowledge of the land, the climate, or the crops that would grow there. The Wampanoag, led by the sachem Massasoit, had...
crossposted from https://bengoldhaber.substack.com/p/are-there-examples-of-communities Many of our biggest problems are collective reasoning problems. What policy are we going to adopt, what should our company build next, where are we all going to go eat lunch today? If we can use AI to reason better collectively, perhaps we can solve these (I...
Cross-posted from https://bengoldhaber.substack.com/ It’s widely known that Corporations are People. This is universally agreed to be a good thing; I list Target as my emergency contact and I hope it will one day be the best man at my wedding. But there are other, less well known non-human entities that...