AI safety today is mostly about training: teach the model to do more “good” and less “bad”. We also educate children to be well behaved. That is needed, but is not what keeps the world safe from humans (AGI). The real safety mechanism is physical and kicks in after "pre-training"...
Civilization failures occur when the system gets stuck in a state where obvious improvements exist but can't be implemented. This chapter from the book Inadequate Equilibria categorize the causes of civilization failures into three buckets: 1. Coordination failures. We can't magically coordinate everyone to be carbon-neutral for example. 2. Decision-makers...
The post describes a tool that allows communities to own a decentralised media publication (a shared Twitter account in this case). In contrast to other shared media publications like subreddits, LessWrong or Hacker News, this tool sorts content using Prediction Markets. Any community member can bet on the number of...