One of the things I love about parenting is being frequently reminded how many things are not the default for most people. While I see this most clearly in my 11-year-olds, I also see it in other adults as well as in myself. One of these human defaults that I...
Note: During my final review of this post I came across a whole slew of posts on LessWrong and the Effective Altruism Forum from several years ago saying many of the same things. While much of this may be rehashing existing arguments, I think the fact that it’s still not...
A common framing of the AI alignment problem is that it's a technical hurdle to be overcome. A clever team at DeepMind or Anthropic would publish a paper titled "Alignment is All You Need," everyone would implement it, and we'd all live happily ever after in harmonious coexistence with our...