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[A veridically metaphorical explanation of why you shouldn't naïvely cram your life with local optimizations (even for noble or altruistic reasons).] TL;DR: You need Slack to be an effective agent. Slack is fragile, and it is tempting to myopically sacrifice it, and myopic sacrifice makes future myopic sacrificing more likely....
[Alternative title: apply More Dakka incrementally and carefully.] If you are very overweight, then you should aim to cut down your daily caloric intake. This doesn't mean your optimal daily caloric intake is 100kcal. If you are very underweight, then you should aim to ramp up your daily caloric intake....
[Experimenting with transposing a concept coined in one domain to another domain, perhaps not completely legibly to the entire intended audience.] In Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection, Peter Godfrey-Smith introduces a bunch of useful concepts allowing us to think more clearly about evolution and its constitutive processes. One of those...
[Deadline extended until 22nd of March!] Apply to Seminar to Study, Explain, and Try to Solve Superintelligence Alignment Applications for the AFFINE Superintelligence Alignment Seminar are now open, and we invite you to apply. It will take place in Hostačov, near Prague (Czechia), from 28 April to 28 May.[1] We...
[Context: This post is aimed at all readers[1] who broadly agree that the current race toward superintelligence is bad, that stopping would be good, and that the technical pathways to a solution are too unpromising and hard to coordinate on to justify going ahead.] TL;DR: We address the objections made...
[Co-written by Mateusz Bagiński and Samuel Buteau (Ishual)] TL;DR Many X-risk-concerned people who join AI capabilities labs with the intent to contribute to existential safety think that the labs are currently engaging in a race that is unacceptably likely to lead to human disempowerment and/or extinction, and would prefer an...
(Work done at Convergence Analysis. Mateusz wrote the post and is responsible for the outline of the argument, many details of which crystallized in conversations with Justin. Thanks to Olga Babeeva for the feedback on this post.) 1. Introduction: Clarifying the DSA-AI theses Over the last decade, AI research and...