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Focus: post-AGI governance
Overarching mission: figure out what winning looks like for Greater Terra
Current quest-line: researching into ecosystem (mis)alignment, and afterwards, envisioning concrete post-AGI viatopias (which are robust against Gradual Disempowerment class x-risk)

I have a penchant for designing and architecting cognitive infrastructure (for myself, for now)

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Dea L

Focus: post-AGI governance
Overarching mission: figure out what winning looks like for Greater Terra
Current quest-line: researching into ecosystem (mis)alignment, and afterwards, envisioning concrete post-AGI viatopias (which are robust against Gradual Disempowerment class x-risk)

I have a penchant for designing and architecting cognitive infrastructure (for myself, for now)

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The Sequences Highlights on YouTube

You have a low executive function budget due to ADHD, depression, or just being Extremely Online™

Been 2 years, but writing this because I just felt very glad that you considered [executive functioning budget] as a factor of consideration :")

Often unconsidered, despite being so very real

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I'm very happy this post is getting traction, because I think spotlighting and questioning these invisible assumptions should become standard practice if we want to raise the epistemic quality of AI safety discourse. Especially since these assumptions tangibly translate into agendas and real-world policy.

I must say that I find it troubling how often I see people accept the implicit narrative that “CCP AGI < USG AGI” as an obvious truth. Such a high-stakes assumption should first be made explicit, and then justified on the basis of sound epistemics. The burden of justifying these assumptions should lie on people who invoke them, and I think AI Safety discourse's epistemic quality would benefit greatly... (read 562 more words →)