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Applications for the Winter 2027 AFFINE Alignment Seminar are now open! The Seminar will take place in southern Portugal over the course of January. If you are excited to grapple with the philosophical foundations of our field and to refine your thinking through carefully designed workshops, conversations with leading experts,...
Part of a larger series I want to put together on some of the basic equations and models of collective epistemics from the more mathy side of the social sciences. LLM Status: Pictures + Picture descriptions are LLM-assisted. Introduction Today we're going to do some napkin math on some fun...
Say that you’re someone trying to do field building within AI Safety and you come at it from an external perspective, what are the first things that you should try to do? That is, you’re new to the field and you believe in the classic EA pyramid scheme argument of:...
Inspired by reading some of the comments and discussion around some of the recent meditation controversies but also a general reflection on the way that people generally seem to think about Buddhism around these places. It's a more general view that I think it is more healthy and beneficial and...
AI was used to generate the scary science attack section in a different voice than the original part was written through as well as creating diagrams according to my instructions in LaTeX. Introduction One of the deeper questions within the field of AI Safety is on how we can create...
This is a follow-up to "Have You Tried Thinking About It As Crystals?" because apparently I wasn't done. Beware that this one is a bit out there and that it is trying to point at something which I believe might be correct but I don't fully understand myself. Scene: A...
Part 1 of a series on process alignment, a different way of thinking about agents at every scale. Introduction There are quite a lot of disagreements in the AI Safety and general AI community about what the future will look like. They’re often framed as differences in algorithmic progress or...