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(Epistemic status: I know next to nothing about patent law, I'm just sharing some thoughts. I would love to be corrected by someone knowledgeable.) If you think that some technology has a significant chance of ending the world (or having other huge negative externalities that outweigh the benefits), you might...

A friend of mine thinks that RL is a dead end: LLMs are much better at problem solving, exploration, and exploitation than any RL algorithm. And I agree that LLMs are better than RL on RL's tasks: companies even have LLMs controlling robots nowadays. The part where we disagree is...

As AI gets more advanced, it is getting harder and harder to tell them apart from humans. AI being indistinguishable from humans is a problem both because of near term harms and because it is an important step along the way to total human disempowerment. A Turing Test that currently...

This post is spoiler-free I just finished Project Lawful, a really long, really weird book by Eliezer Yudkowsky. The book's protagonist is a knowledgable and perceptive target. A conspiracy forms around the target to learn from him while keeping him from finding out that helping them is not in the...

Although I'm writing this about my personal situation and project, I expect others to be in this situation as well. I'm thinking about joining ProjectX. It sounds like a perfect opportunity to work with AI, gain experience, and potentially make something I'm proud of. Unfortunately, it is about improving AI...

[Note: I am not a psychologist. I know next to nothing about mental illness and have never suffered from it myself. This story deals with suicide.] The man stepped out onto the roof. The gray clouds above were illuminated not by the moon or stars, but by the light pollution...