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Hi, most of you have probably seen the AGI Alignment charts generated by Rob Bensinger and Michaël Trazzi. I thought those charts could be useful to help people connect with others on Twitter that share similar (or very different) views on the two seminal questions on this topic ("AGI when?"...

I'm not a sports person, but anybody can appreciate the wisdom in Gretzky's famous quote "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been." Based on my current age of 47, as well as actuarial tables for US males, I estimate I have...

Are there any rationality groups in Silicon Valley/Tokyo/Berlin/etc that have transitioned to online meetings? It might be fun for those of us who don't live in the "cool places" to be able to participate at this time. I'd love it if folks could share some links, if they exist!

It's seems noteworthy just how little the AI pioneers from the 40s-80s seemed to care about AI risk. There is no obvious reason why a book like "Superintelligence" wasn't written in the 1950s, but for some reason that didn't happen... any thoughts on why this was the case? I can...