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As the possibility of ASI moves out of kooky thought experiments and into Q4 projections, mainstream animal welfare folks are showing increasing interest in the implications of ASI for animals and on animal welfare in the long-run future. Some animal welfare people seem keen on convincing the AI safety community...
Tl;dr * If you’re taking the standard deduction (ie donating <~$15k), ignore all this–there are basically no tax implications for you * Consider how much money you want to donate to c3s specifically (as opposed to c4s, political stuff, random individuals, some foreign organizations, etc.). For money you definitely want...
Tl;dr: Herpes viruses scare me (in a way other STDs don't). I think there are some mechanistic and a-priori reasons to worry that HSV 1 or 2, especially orally, could have bad consequences later in life. In particular: * Multiple other species of herpes can cause surprising long-term consequences (that...
Honesty is quite powerful in many cases: if you have a reputation for being honest, people will trust you more and your words will have more weight (or so the argument goes). Unfortunately, being extremely honest all the time is also pretty difficult. What happens when the Nazis come knocking...
Anthropic released a report on the misalignment sabotage risks of Claude Opus 4 and 4.1. They concluded "there is a very low, but not completely negligible, risk of misaligned autonomous actions that contribute significantly to later catastrophic outcomes, abbreviated as sabotage risk". They also had two independent reviews of their...
I’m close to a single-issue voter/donor. I tend to like politicians who show strong support for AI safety, because I think it’s an incredibly important and neglected problem. So when I make political donations, it’s not as salient to me which party the candidate is part of, if they've gone...
A review of Nina Panickssery’s review of Scott Alexander’s review of the book "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" (IABIED). This essay is not my best work but I just couldn't resist. Thanks to Nina and others for comments/feedback. I confess I mostly wrote this because I think a review...