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This morning, I got an email from the CEO of PauseAI. I will paste the text below. PauseAI has decided to distance themselves from PauseAI-US, with whom they share branding, but apparently not much else. This is a really confusing situation for volunteers and newcomers. I think it would be...

Recently, as part of pulling my personal fire alarm, I applied to start a local chapter of what, I realize in hindsight, was PauseAI-US, and not PauseAI. They are apparently entirely different organizations. I did not realize this, despite having spent some time volunteering for PauseAI in the past. To...

Over three years ago, I first considered pulling my personal fire alarm. I think I'm now ready to do it. What is my reasoning? In the last couple of months: 1) My software engineering job has gone 100% AI. Is this sustainable? Probably not. But I have literally been instructed...

Title sums it up. I am a mid-level software engineer (no CS degree*, but 4 years of full-stack dev work at mid-size local company). I was recently laid off, and have been looking for new jobs. However, I am seriously considering taking this time to retool myself to work on...

When you play chess against a grandmaster, you know you're going to lose. But do you really understand how badly? You might think to yourself, “There's only like 20 possible moves per turn. Even a novice like me can quickly rule out half of those.” In this post, I'd like...

More specifically, the Anthropic Principle tells us that AGI/TAI are unlikely to be conscious in a world where 1) TAI is achieved, 2) Alignment fails, and 3) the 'prominence' of consciousness scales with either increasing levels of capability or with a greater number of conscious being/the time of their existence....

I am not quite ready to pull my own personal fire alarm. The word 'quite' is doing a lot of lifting in that sentence. Because a fire is starting to feel like a real possibility in my future, I've begun to think about what pulling the fire alarm would actually...