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I am broadly interested in theoretical computer science and neuroscience. 

Recently I've been thinking more about gradual disempowerment risks due to AI and potential mitigation strategies.

Projects that I'm working on  

  • Improving the discourse on the trajectory of AGI and its potential implications - Superposition  
  • Some proposals on improving empowerment and accelerating AI policy making and governance

     

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Gradual Disempowerment Monthly Roundup
bhishma9d10

Super interested in this! I would be even up for a discord or slack 

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Help the AI 2027 team make an online AGI wargame
bhishma21d20

Hi, we had been working on a single player TTX for the past couple of months, do check it out - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/epn73xEkeu5T4sZa5/rehearsing-the-future-tabletop-exercises-for-risks-and 

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Reflections from Ooty retreat 2.0
bhishma3mo10

Thanks! This was our first big event (>10), so it was kind of a trial by fire. Glad that we could pull it off (obviously with the help of the community). Lots of learnings to digest and incorporate for the next iteration. 

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OpenAI Claims IMO Gold Medal
bhishma3mo80

Arguments made in https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/what-will-the-imo-tell-us-about-ai-math-capabilities were so prescient! 

 

If the 2025 IMO happens to contain 0 or 1 hard combinatorics problems, it’s entirely possible that AlphaProof will get a gold medal just by grinding out 5 or 6 of the problems—especially if there happens to be a tilt toward hard geometry problems. This would grab headlines, but wouldn’t be much of an update over current capabilities. Still, it seems pretty likely: I give a 70% chance to AlphaProof winning a gold medal overall, with almost all of that chance coming from just such a scenario.

But in fact it turned out to be a more general reasoning model than AlphaProof

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bhishma's Shortform
bhishma4mo10

We're literally using the economic proceeds from attention extraction to build artificial attention mechanisms that might make human attention obsolete.

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bhishma's Shortform
bhishma4mo-10

Its kind of ironic how one of largest effort to build a sand god is based on an architecture which is also > 80% funded by an economy of the same name

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Invitation to an IRL retreat on AI x-risks & post-rationality in Ooty, India
bhishma4mo10

Hi Sanjay, yeah we are planning to organise future meetups in Bangalore. Do fill the form, so that we can keep you updated. 

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The Ukraine War and the Kill Market
bhishma5mo10

Since the drones are centrally produced, they could easily implement digital watermarks for provenance

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I'm offering free math consultations!
bhishma6mo10

Probably do a screen recording to scale later with AI

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ACX/EA Hyderabad Meetup
bhishma6mo20

Slides for my talk

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9Rehearsing the Future: Tabletop Exercises for Risks, and Readiness
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15Reflections from Ooty retreat 2.0
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2bhishma's Shortform
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10Invitation to an IRL retreat on AI x-risks & post-rationality in Ooty, India
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3Cognition and Intractability by Rooij, Blokpoel, Kwisthout, Wareham
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