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Drafted March 6 2025 I have thought for many years that it is a risky thing to have a partner who is into creating things, lest you be called upon to appreciate those things, and everyone’s preferred narrative about the situation slams head-on into the realistic odds that you especially...
When I talk to people about what might be done about AI threatening approximately everything that everyone cares about, I notice a common oddity in their resistance to a variety of ideas. They seem to take for granted that certain entities—especially Trump and China—would be acting against their own interests,...
I was on Peter Scott’s podcast, Artificial Intelligence and You and our discussion apparently took two episodes! (Quotes from Peter about what we discussed) June 15: https://aiandyou.net/e/313-guest-katja-grace-ai-impact-researcher-part-1/ > We talk about what’s driving Katja to do this work, the fundamental risks that she sees in AI, AI evolving unexpected goals,...
Being fat seems to be interpreted—at least in some society—as a sign of inferior personal virtue: being lazy, greedy, lacking self control. It is also read, perhaps more accurately, as a sign of unfortunate genetics. In the age of GLP-1 drugs and the like, being fat shifts to partially a...
When I see an angry person, or a Taylor Swift fan, or a fifty year old, I tend to assume that they are thoroughly experienced and on top of enacting being that kind of person. The fifty year old is an odd one out though: nobody has any previous experience...
Most AI researchers put at least 5% on advanced AI causing human extinction or extreme disempowerment. The most cited scientists of all time are Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton and they both put extinction at 10% or more. There is a distinct lack of global response to this kind of...
Family is extremely important to a lot of people. It is also an institution we have had as long as we have existed. If we wanted to, how hard would it be to create another institution with similar virtues? (Not to replace families in general, but to have more of...