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A public notebook for random, exploratory, low-confidence, short or high-variance work.
If something here strikes you as poorly thought through, I probably already agree.
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A gentle introduction to how we might make trades without direct evidence Let me start by saying that I don't like concepts defined by negatives. "Decentralized" systems and "nonviolent" communication stresses me out. Even "non-fiction" strikes me as unhelpfully vague. The concept defined via negativa I dislike most of all,...
After Borges, circa threat modelling It is not its content that makes the iron kaleidoscope extraordinary. It is the way that the apparatus of the kaeleidoscope exaggerates itself upon the human eye. It reflects itself, and in its recursive reflection, contingencies are multiplied. Artefacts that exist in one point are...
This is a quick write-up of a threat vector that seems confusing, and I feel confused and uncertain about. This is just my thinking on this at the moment. My main reason for sharing is to test whether more people think people should be working on this. Executive Summary Some...
Epistemic status: riffing and curious. What are good analogies for the relationship humanity should have with a superintelligence? I haven’t tended to pay too much attention to academic work exploring framing narratives around AI systems. That said, I do have a humanities background, and generally fall back on a version...
Position Piece: Most of the developing world lacks the institutional capacity to adapt to powerful, unsecure AI systems by 2030. Incautious model release could disproportionately affect these regions. Enhanced societal resilience in frontier AI states consequently provides no 'black cheque' for incautious release. ‘We should develop more societal resilience to...
Status: Just for fun Scene: Some kind of lobby, where various people and/or avatars stand around and discuss issues that went well or badly in their respective worlds.* A common topic of conversation: AI, and why it went wrong. The following is extracted from one of those conversations. It started...
I’ve been pretty confused by what it means for a technology or operation to be ‘defensive’. Technologies do things. What does it mean for a technology to, like, be something that stops bad things? Is an anti-missile missile the same as a missile? Can we come up with a classification...