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The need for a structured framework for deciding whether you should have children In the rationality community and in the EA community, it is normal to analyze all kinds of decisions in detail, and this of course includes their ethical consequences - that is, the impact of decisions on other...
Currently, there are 26 LessWrong forums posts tagged "family planning", the oldest from 2010. For a writing project, I read all of them. However, I realized that this collection may interest other people, so I publish it as a stand-alone post. I summarize the posts and their comments in the...
This post discusses what statements about comparative advantage say and what they do not say, and why comparative advantage does not save horses from getting sent to glue factories. It is only marginally about AI. Eliezer Yudkowsky, in "The Sun is big, but superintelligences will not spare Earth a little...
Sorry for posting this twice, but I just could not change the formatting of the text the first time. This is an excerpt from Rob Reid's substack post "An 'Observatory' For a Shy Super AI?" which describes a thought experiment about a manipulative AI. The excerpt is a bit of...
Yesterday I heard a podcast where someone said he hoped AGI would be developed in his lifetime. This confused me, and I realized that it might be useful - at least for me - to write down this confusion. Consider that for some reasons - different history, different natural laws,...
TL; DR Seeing OpenAI's impressive technology should make media commentators think it more likely that AGI is possible and existentially dangerous. Some do, but overall this shift in views does not seem consistent enough; the default reaction still seems to be to view the whole AI thing as just another...
Maybe calls for tabooing terms can become a bit inflationary. However, talking about if and when AI will reach or surpass “human-level intelligence” can misleadingly frame the discussion, so I recommend avoiding that term. What is "human-level intelligence" and when will AI surpass it? My understanding is that there is...