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Cross-posted from Sören Mindermann's substack (I am not Sören). Should be of general interest to the LW community. Next month, I am moving to Beijing and joining Tsinghua University’s College of AI as an assistant professor working on frontier AI safety, especially loss of control. I have also started co-directing...

Written with Humzah Khan. This post is crossposted from Substack. Original here. The AI takeover story, so we are told, is the supreme pinnacle of rationalist theory-crafting. The idea of unstoppable intelligence is so emotionally appealing, so theoretically compelling, so damn good at raising money from billionaires, that the hundreds...