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To be a little more precise: I make video games, edit Wikipedia, and write here on LessWrong!
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Three years ago, back in 2022, I wrote "A Tentative Timeline of The Near Future (2022-2025) for Self-Accountability." Well, 2025 is almost over now, so let's see how well I did! I'll go over each individual prediction, and assign myself a subjective grade based on how close I got to...
Those who have fallen victim to LLM psychosis often have a tendency to unceasingly spam machine-generated text into the text corpus that is the internet. There are many different reasons for this, but a popular one seems to be the impression that by doing so, they can shape the next...
Please consider minimizing direct use of AI chatbots (and other text-based AI) in the near-term future, if you can. The reason is very simple: your sanity may be at stake. Commercially available AI already appears capable of inducing psychosis in an unknown percentage of users. This may not require superhuman...
Not most AI models on the market, to be clear, but a specific type of AI that was already well-studied could act as a seed: the LLM. Really, all that was needed to achieve alignment was simple: Take a sufficiently large Large Language Model, and train it on a massive...
The following is one possible future in which superhuman AI does NOT happen by the end of this decade. I do not believe that the timeline I present is the most likely path forward. Rather, this is meant primarily as a semi-plausible, less pessimistic alternative timeline than the one presented...
I've been thinking lately about the Repugnant Conclusion. For those who are not already aware, it's a problem in Population Ethics where one is seemingly forced to say that a world entirely populated with happy, well-off people is less preferable (all else being equal) than a world consisting of a...
Note: This post assumes you've heard of the Mandelbrot set before, and you want to know more about it, but that you find imaginary and complex numbers (e.g. the square root of negative one) a bit mystifying and counterintuitive. Instead of helping you understand the relevant math like a reasonable...