Sarah Sun — LessWrong

I think the highest priority item right now is not debating on specific terms, it should be using Claude to translate all verification related stuff to Chinese (yes it's good enough) and put it on whatever website you have. We should involve China NOW and co-develop a plan instead of trying to come up whatever we think is a perfect solution that may turn out to be completely unrealistic on China side.

A summary of a viral Chinese essay on what a DeepSeek kernel engineer's opinion on automating his own job

Sarah Sun1mo9842

He says he does not trust Amercian companies to do this and compares it, by his own admission as an exaggeration, to Hitler getting the atomic bomb before the Allies (translator's note: take it easy).

“特别是不希望 Anthropic 掌握最先进的人工智能或 AGI，夸张点说其严重性不亚于让希特勒先于盟军掌握原子弹技术。”

To clarify, he said, "he especially don't wish Anthropic to have best AI or AGI first", he did NOT make the Hilter reference for ALL US labs.

This make sense as the extreme hawkishness of Dario's speech had made some Chinese believe Dario is against China as a whole including Chinese people not just... (read more)

On Social Reality in China

Sarah Sun1mo198

I'm Chinese and I live in China, I do frontier AI safety research here full-time, I spend half of my life in the UK.

I find it amusing that people are discussing here, online, how to talk to Chinese people with each other, instead of, just talk to Chinese people around you. Especially those who live in big cities, there must be plenty of international students who are already familiar with both western and Chinese culture and in a much better position of explaining to you how China is like. It seems that 5% of incoming students in Berkeley are Chinese citi... (read more)

China Hawks are Manufacturing an AI Arms Race

Sarah Sun2y10

I feel this is a burden of proof situation like one can always argue due to lack of transparency in CCP, they are secretly trying even tho there's little to no evidence as demonstrated in the article. What type of evidence is required to prove that China is NOT actively in an arms race? idk if it's even possible to do so?

A list of good heuristics that the case for AI x-risk fails

Sarah Sun2y10

Psychologically, worry is negative prediction about future. They believe a healthy person would not worry about things that have extremely low probability, can't be predicted, can be predicted but there's nothing you can do about it. I'd say AI x-risk can be easily perceived to be at least one of them.