James Brobin

This is a cross post from my blog post. Last year, I read Julia Galef’s book The Scout Mindset. It argues that many people have a “soldier mindset.” They hold strongly to a set of beliefs because these beliefs benefit them in some way. And, as a result, whenever these...

Crosspost of my blog article. In 2023, a wealth of revered AI researchers and other public figures signed a statement saying that they thought AI posed a significant risk of extinction to humanity. This is why, when I heard that Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’ book If Anyone Builds It,...