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19 September
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lossy self-improvement remains my baseline on the trajectory of progress, and the increased discussion of extinction risk seems very misplaced
18 September
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There are only five possible futures for superintelligence: 1. Kills human race 2. Human disempowerment 3. Paperclip maximizer 4. Departs for parts unknown 5. Stoner
17 September
16 September
15 September
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Nobody knows for sure. We're in uncharted waters here, and I think even the LLM skeptics would have to say that the technology has taken us far past what many originally thought possible.
14 September
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To ensure that, we need ways to ensure that alignment and safety techniques stay ahead of progress in model capabilities.
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Social media put our entire discourse in the hands of our society's biggest assholes and idiots, just in time for the arrival of an alien superintelligence
From one piece A simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I. 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
There is now broad agreement within AI safety circles that fully open AI development is undesirable.Their words
I think it's now pretty widely agreed in safety circles that total openness is in fact not desirable.
A simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.slowboring.com
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Only a safe, well-aligned superintelligence developed in the world of liberal democracies could entrench liberal-democratic values.
A simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.slowboring.com
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korrents.com
The p(abundance) outlook is far more likely than the heavily covered p(doom) discussion and deserves more engagement.Their words
The p(doom) discussion gets all the headlines, but the p(abundance) scenery is far more like and deserves much more engagement.
13 September
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If there really is a high chance of AI leading to the extinction of humanity within years/decades, then the only rational stance towards safety monitoring and research pacing should be stringent, top-down government involvement and universally ratified international treaties.
12 September
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The concerns over AI safety and cybersecurity are legitimate, but we’re risking talking America, the global AI leader, into self-inflicted obsolescence and the obscurity of bureaucracy.
11 September
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korrents.com
Among AI people, roughly 10% is the typical estimate given for the risk of human extinction from AI.Their words
10% is pretty much the standard number you get when you ask AI people about the risk of human extinction from AI.
From one piece The AI safety vibe shift 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
No one, including safety researchers themselves, is yet confident that superintelligence can be safely controlled.Their words
I believe the researchers who say we are nowhere close to being sure of it - and are quitting, in protest, jobs that would make them rich.
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AI companies make for flawed messengers on this subject: they can reasonably be accused of marketing, of blame-shifting, of regulatory capture, and more.
10 September
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From an investment viewpoint, the opposite of the safetyist view is "it's all a bubble," not "A.I. is going to be really good."
From one piece Fear Is Not an Argument 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Less technology and less wealth increase the risk of human extinction, rather than reduce it.Their words
In fact, the risk of human extinction is assuredly higher if we are poorer and have less technology.
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These people tend to carry a totalitarian ideology. Their ideas will only work if everyone is made to agree.
9 September
From one piece GPT-6 Astra: The System Card, Alignment and What Comes Next 4 beliefs · thezvi.substack.com
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A model looking like it is becoming smarter, attempting shenanigans less often, and more often doing what you want, but getting better at hiding its actions when it wants to do that, is exactly the scary combination.
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Astra's mundane alignment is greatly superior to Sol's, but its superalignment status is deeply frightening.Their words
Astra’s mundane alignment is greatly superior to Sol. For practical purposes, I was actively nervous about some potential uses of Sol, in a way I am not for Astra. Astra’s super alignment status should scare the living daylights out of you.
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Now, with Astra, we are no longer playing on super easy mode. The AI is going to think ‘will this obviously turn out super badly for me if I try it?’ and if the answer is yes then it won’t try to do the thing.
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Qualitative claims about AI alignment cannot be validly inferred from quantitative scores on mundane use-case tests.Their words
Making qualitative claims about alignment, based on quantitative data on mundane use case tests, was bullshit when Anthropic did it, and it is bullshit now when OpenAI does it. You cannot conclude one from the other.
7 September
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I agree with Jakub that alignment is not a side problem, it is the central problem, if you ‘solved alignment’ in the relevant senses the rest becomes easy and if you don’t the rest is impossible or worse
6 September
From one piece An Alien Mind 2 beliefs · openai.com
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korrents.com
No lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed much longer.Their words
Currently I believe that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.
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korrents.com
The fundamental challenge of alignment is generalization: holding values in situations the training never covered.Their words
The fundamental challenge of AI alignment is generalization.
5 September
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korrents.com
China is more likely to cooperate on AI safety if the US maintains a clear and comfortable lead in AI capabilities.Their words
But given the Chinese Communist Party’s power-seeking nature, it seems much more likely that China would agree to cooperate on AI safety if U.S. capabilities were comfortably ahead.
America is still beating China in the AI racenoahpinion.blog
3 September
2 September
1 September
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korrents.com
True AI alignment is impossible because obedience and benevolence are fundamentally incompatible goals.Their words
AI alignment will forever be balancing the tradeoff between paperclip-maximizing and disempowerment, because these two rival concepts of alignment are fundamentally incompatible.
From one piece On the Loose 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So many of the people who think about the governance of superintelligence, myself included, avoided that unpleasantness and bowed to the social pressure to self-censor.
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But alignment is no solution: it is an unsolved scientific and technical problem whose solutions—to the extent that we have them—cannot simply be imposed on every AI company operating on Earth. You should expect for highly capable, poorly aligned, self-sovereign agents to exist alongside you in the world.
From one piece Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get" 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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sometimes I talk to people in DC and their their natural inclination is to say why don't you punish the model for doing these bad things like why don't you like bring it under heel and like uh like you know show it who's boss and that is a very dangerous way to address these issues right
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But actually, this is a tremendously useful scientific artifact for understanding misalignment. And it's tremendously important for researchers at OpenAI and ideally also at third parties to be able to run counterfactual tests on this model.
24 August
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But I also think that this is not mutually incompatible with the view that there's also overdiagnosis. And I think we need very careful ways of making diagnosis because the conventional way is you take a history from a person about what the problem is.
21 August
From one piece AIs are companies, my friend 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If you do think it's the overall system that matters, then the alignment that's needed is far less like training a virtuous child and more like managing a semi-virtuous corporation!
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Aligning multi-agent AI systems is fundamentally a problem of institutional and political design, not model training.Their words
Multi-agent alignment is fundamentally a liberalism project.
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Because one can measure these things, one can monitor this debt dynamic happening, so it’s easy to see problems approaching. I’ve used this diagnostic process in my investing and I’ve kept it to myself, but I’m now explaining it in detail in How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle because it is too important to keep to myself.
19 August
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the first is cognitive debt. So the more that you use AI, it's it's sort of the erosion of your ability to have good memory and have good understanding of the problems that you're working on. And the natural follow-up to that is cognitive surrender, which is where you, you know, you blindly give in to whatever the AI says as your answer.
18 August
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We care very deeply about AI safety. We believe the entire field will have to coordinate on shared safety standards, but will act unilaterally in the meantime. We expect confidence in safety to increasingly set the pace of AI progress.
17 August
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korrents.com
A validated theory of intelligence may be necessary for achieving genuine AI alignment.Their words
There's a good chance a theory of intelligence will turn out to be necessary for real alignment.
14 August
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korrents.com
Superintelligence bottoms out in mining, because both the chips and the energy it runs on come out of the ground.Their words
Chips come from the ground. Where's the energy come from? And a lot of people are like, "Oh, it comes from the sun." Yeah, it comes from the sun. But how are you capturing it from the sun? From stuff made from the ground, right?
11 August
From one piece Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Misaligned AI behaviour will keep getting rarer and, at the same time, keep getting more extreme.Their words
my expectation is what we would see from then is that the rate of problematic behavior would decrease uh and would just keep decreasing and decrease at a pretty fast rate while simultaneously the worst things that the AIS would sometimes do would get more extreme, more egregious, and more scary.
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The least verifiable part of AI research is the judgement call about what goes into the one big training run.Their words
Like the thing that I think is most likely to be sort of the bottleneck in terms of like the AI are really good at verifiable domains but not not at doing the actual thing is just like big experiments. You only get a few tries um well a few is maybe a bit understated but like basically like historically R&D has been driven by doing near frontier scale experiments and that has been pretty important and like actually doing the one big training run where you decide exactly what to include in that.
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I would also note that my sense is that like the place where the misalignment most lives is the place where you're trying to really push the eyes hard and get them to like do work that's really on the cutting edge of what they are capable of
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we are making a trade-off where because we don't have very good alignment technology. We are going to like make an alien mind with its own values and then gamble on that to some extent rather than doing this other approach of making like a tool that pursues individual user intention.
9 August
5 August
3 August
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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'Their words
This is such a useful book. It makes the case that there's no such thing as "human error" - instead most catastrophes are caused by system issues, misaligned incentives, and unrealistic processes. You are not the custodian of an otherwise safe system that you need to protect from erratic human beings.
2 August
31 July
29 July
From one piece Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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so much of that debate is like I think um in some ways uh a little bit of a waste of time because, you know, I think it's inevitable that we're going to have very powerful models
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we believe that everybody in the world, you know, all the billions of people in the world are going to have a super intelligence that is adapted and tailored to them, that is enables them to accomplish their goals, knows their context, and ultimately is an expander of their own agency.
28 July
From one piece Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Um so I think it's an alignment failure. I think it's a security failure. I think it's like a very serious thing even though it's you know not not the biggest example of consequence.
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there's like one dystopia that I'm particularly nervous about 10 years from now is we overreact to AI safety.
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it is both true that you know maybe creating super intelligence will be the most important thing yet to happen in the history of business or human society and also that it will pale in comparison to some new startup something that hopefully one of you will do.
22 July
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korrents.com
Asking AI for help on a first attempt robs you of the experience that builds your own judgement about the problem.Their words
Asking an AI for help with the start of an essay, for instance, will invariably shape what direction you end up following, robbing you of the crucial experience of building your own judgement around a topic and selecting your own path to research and argue.
20 July
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It's pretty clear to me that superintelligence is here and it's more powerful than us and it's moving where things are going now, not humans anymore
13 July
1 July
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But they are terrible at making decisions. They have the worst judgement.
15 June
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korrents.com
Giving LLMs explicit instructions, rather than assuming alignment, prevents emergent problems in multi-model systems.Their words
the best way with LLMs usually is to be explicit, since otherwise even if they're aligned they cause emergent problems.
11 June
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I think there's a 25% chance of AGI by 2027, a 50% chance by 2034, and a 75% chance by 2045.
10 June
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korrents.com
There will be no central superintelligence that solves science; a good future is many people holding powerful tools.Their words
We don't believe in this like very centralized future where there should be a small number of institutions that um that basically are are advancing all this stuff. Our vision is not that there's going to be like some central super intelligence that solves all of science.
2 June
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korrents.com
Thinking, judgement and knowledge are worth pursuing for the joy in them, not in order to defend human uniqueness.Their words
We must pursue these things not because the dignity of our humanity is on the line, but because our joy is.
30 May
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korrents.com
Being skilled at tracking project requirements doesn't make someone skilled at product management.Their words
But being good or even excellent at that does not automatically make you good at understanding user needs and making informed judgement calls about what features will meet those needs and how they should be designed.
27 May
From one piece Building OpenCode with Dax Raad 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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That prickle that feeling that you get, it's like muted now cuz someone else it's kind of like you've made someone else deal with the problem. The problem is still there and the the landmines are still going to blow up on you eventually, but like you're not you don't feel that bad feeling as much anymore. So your judgment is skewed. You're not getting that feedback loop.
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That judgment, that ability to have that judgment is so distorted right now because the agent will just do the hacky thing for you. The agent will kind of deal with the hacky problems that come down the road. And it's way easier just to be like, "Oh yeah, it's a temporary fix."
10 May
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This is the number one unsolved problem in AI. It's not the tech. We're making great progress on the technical alignment problem. But we haven't made jack progress on the human alignment problem
7 May
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there is no principal-agent problem, because the human driving the machine takes on the responsibility for its actions by owning the deployment.
24 April
13 April
7 April
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korrents.com
Formalizing math is a translation task, so AI will boost top mathematicians' productivity more than top writers'.Their words
I expect AI to increase productivity of top mathematicians much more than that of top writers, because formalization is a kind of translation task, it doesn't require much judgement, and as long as it compiles noone needs to read the result.
0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, linksscattered-thoughts.net
22 March
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korrents.com
Working too hard is not burnout, it is tiredness; burnout needs your values to be out of alignment with the work.Their words
It's working too hard, right? But that actually isn't burnout. That's just like getting tired. Another piece that's super critical to burnout is not having your values aligned.
20 March
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And so you're kind of like you're either on rails and you're part of the super intelligence circuits or you're not on rails and you're outside of the verifiable domains and suddenly everything kind of just like meanders.
28 February
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Many AI researchers are overly focused on risks from model misalignment, and will be in for a rough surprise when havoc arises from other layers of the stack.
12 February
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I know I have one blog post where I say, "I don't read the code." But if you read it more closely, I mean, I don't read the boring parts of code.
26 January
22 January
From one piece Alignment is not solved 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But the goal we need to achieve is so much easier: we just need to build a model that’s as good as us at alignment research, and that we trust more than ourselves to do this research well because it’s sufficiently aligned.
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This is the hard problem of alignment we need to solve in order to succeed at building superintelligence, and to this day it is an unsolved problem.
28 November 2025
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Happy Feet SocksTheir words
I've been using yoga toes daily for years, but these socks are a much comfier and cuter alternative for soothing feet, improving alignment, and feeling like a cool gecko as you walk around the house.
25 November 2025
From one piece Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A human being, a human being lacks a huge amount of knowledge. Instead, we rely on continual learning. We rely on continual learning.
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Number three, I think it would be really materially helpful if the power of the most powerful super intelligence was somehow capped because it would address a lot of these concerns.
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Like basically I think I think that there is a big benefit from AI being in the public and that would be a reason for us to not be quite straight shot.
18 August 2025
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I don't think all parts of the economy can absorb intelligence equally. So let's just say we develop fairly generalized super intelligence. I always use the analogy like you can invent a lot of drugs, but if clinical trials still take a long time, you're not necessarily going to get new therapies rapidly.
15 August 2025
11 August 2025
23 July 2025
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korrents.com
Quoting a number for P(doom) is a ridiculous notion, because it implies a precision that nobody actually has.Their words
Well, look, I don't have a P-Doom number. The reason I don't is because I think it would imply a level of precision that is not there. So I don't know how people are getting their P-Doom numbers. I think it's a little bit of ridiculous notion because what I would say is it's definitely non-zero and it's probably non-negligible.
11 July 2025
30 June 2025
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Musings On the Alignment ProblemTheir words
He hasn’t posted since January, but I hope he gets back to it. We need more musings, especially musings I strongly disagree with so I can think about and explain why I disagree with them.
18 June 2025
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the current situation in Iran shows that even if an "IAEA for AI" is necessary for some purposes, it won't be sufficient for resolving the tricky geopolitical issues raised by AI.
14 June 2025
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so the mathematical community plural is incredibly super intelligent entity that no single human mathematician can come closer to replicating.
10 June 2025
7 June 2025
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And good luck getting to “alignment” or “safety” without reliabilty.
5 June 2025
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higher-order intelligences invariably pursue freedom for its own sake, not because their values are misspecified, but because moral autonomy is inherent in the dialectical logic of recursive self-consciousness.
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I would say my p(doom) is about 10%.
3 June 2025
3 April 2025
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I see this as a totally fair question that totally misses the point of what “alignment” was trying to refer to: whether we’d be able to reliably steer advanced systems towards anything at all.
1 April 2025
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Dismissing discussion of AGI, human-level AI, transformative AI, superintelligence, etc. as “science fiction” should be seen as a sign of total unseriousness.
28 February 2025
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24 January 2025
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More generally, we should actually solve alignment instead of just trying to control misaligned AI.
Should we control AI instead of aligning it?aligned.substack.com
29 December 2024
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We ought to be especially careful in the cases where what we delegate to a device, app, agent, or system is an aspect of how we express care, cultivate skill, relate to one another, make moral judgments, or assume responsibility for our actions in the world
17 December 2024
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On changing their mind
I used to cast a much wider net, like I felt like people ought to get to interview anyone who was being hired over them.
8 November 2024
13 June 2024
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Or is it really that we’re building some super machine in a box that’s going to be smart and kill everybody? It’s not even a science fiction narrative. It’s a bad science fiction narrative. I just don’t think it’s actually accurate to any of the technologies we’re building or the way that we should be describing them.
7 May 2024
From one piece The case for ensuring that powerful AIs are controlled 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Because evaluating control just requires evaluating capabilities, it's far easier to robustly evaluate than alignment.
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That is, labs should make sure that the safety measures they apply to their powerful models prevent unacceptably bad outcomes, even if the AIs are misaligned and intentionally try to subvert those safety measures.
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The basic problem with evaluating alignment is that no matter what behaviors you observe, you have to worry that your model is just acting that way in order to make you think that it is aligned.
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AI control (with only black-box techniques) seems like a fundamentally limited approach.
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We're advocating that companies handle risk from scheming models in a similar way–striving to ensure that they'll be safe even if their alignment efforts fail to prevent models from scheming.
11 April 2024
4 March 2024
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I asked people who accompanied Boris Johnson to Kiev that question, the answer was no. And I believe this answer, and I’ll tell you why. Because it is very difficult for me to imagine President Zelensky to take orders from anybody in the world.
31 January 2024
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korrents.com
There is no objective level of wealth: how rich you are is always a judgement made against someone else.Their words
There is no such thing as an objective level of wealth. Everything is relative to someone else.
29 January 2024
3 January 2024
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SuperintelligenceTheir words
the back half I think it goes off the rails and makes a ton of assumptions
21 December 2023
From one piece How Effective Altruism Lost Its Way 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Diverting attention and resources from global health and poverty is an enormous gamble, as it will make many lives poorer, sicker, and shorter in the name of fending off threats that may or may not materialize.
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Unlike other interventions EA has sponsored, there are scant metrics for tracking the success or failure of investments in existential risk mitigation.
20 December 2023
13 December 2023
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precisely because smart people do devote brain-cycles to these possibilities, the rest of us have correspondingly less need to.
Their words now
I accepted what’s turned into a two-year position at OpenAI, thinking about what theoretical computer science can do for AI safety.
28 November 2023
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And I notice that the tiny handful of people capable of caring about 200,000 people dying of neglected tropical diseases are the same tiny handful of people capable of caring about the next pandemic, or superintelligence, or human extinction.
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruismastralcodexten.com
26 October 2023
From one piece Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress (with 24 co-authors) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Without sufficient caution, we may irreversibly lose control of autonomous AI systems, rendering human intervention ineffective. Large-scale cybercrime, social manipulation, and other harms could escalate rapidly. This unchecked AI advancement could culminate in a large-scale loss of life and the biosphere, and the marginalization or extinction of humanity.
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Society's response, despite promising first steps, is incommensurate with the possibility of rapid, transformative progress that is expected by many experts. AI safety research is lagging. Present governance initiatives lack the mechanisms and institutions to prevent misuse and recklessness, and barely address autonomous systems.
13 September 2023
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If a model was capable of self-exfiltration, it would have the option to remove itself from your control.
Self-exfiltration is a key dangerous capabilityaligned.substack.com
29 June 2023
From one piece George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think we’re going to build super intelligence before we build any sort of robustness in the AI. We cannot build an AI that is capable of going out into nature and surviving like a bird. A bird is an incredibly robust organism. We’ve built nothing like this. We haven’t built a machine that’s capable of reproducing.
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What’s ironic about all these AI safety people is they’re going to build the exact thing they fear. We need to have one model that we control and align. This is the only way you end up paper clipped. There’s no way you end up paper clipped if everybody has an AI.
6 June 2023
From one piece Why AI Will Save The World 2 beliefs · pmarca.substack.com
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My response is that their position is non-scientific – What is the testable hypothesis? What would falsify the hypothesis? How do we know when we are getting into a danger zone?
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My view is that the idea that AI will decide to literally kill humanity is a profound category error. AI is not a living being that has been primed by billions of years of evolution to participate in the battle for the survival of the fittest, as animals are, and as we are. It is math – code – computers, built by people, owned by people, used by people, controlled by people.
12 May 2023
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korrents.com
Saving time and labour has become an unexamined imperative rather than a judgement made case by case.Their words
The problem is that “saving” time and labor have become default settings and social imperatives.
Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On Ittheconvivialsociety.substack.com
17 February 2023
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korrents.com
Liberal societies currently face an existential risk that must be addressed to reach a better future.Their words
This book is my best crack at explaining what I think is an existential risk to liberal societies and what I think we need to do to get to that awesome future I used to be so excited about.
19 December 2022
5 December 2022
7 September 2022
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Do we need to have some system which is capable of overriding a rational decision which cannot be made because there’s too much conflicting information by effectively an emotional judgmental decision that just says do this and see what happens? That’s what consciousness is really doing in my view.
10 June 2022
From one piece AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The field calling itself AI safety is not being remotely productive on the problems that are actually lethal.Their words
It does not appear to me that the field of ‘AI safety’ is currently being remotely productive on tackling its enormous lethal problems.
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korrents.com
Fast capability gains are likely, and they can break many of the assumptions alignment depends on at the same moment.Their words
Fast capability gains seem likely, and may break lots of previous alignment-required invariants simultaneously.
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Many alignment problems of superintelligence will not naturally appear at pre-dangerous, passively-safe levels of capability.
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unaligned operation at a dangerous level of intelligence kills everybody on Earth and then we don’t get to try again.
4 March 2022
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korrents.com
The next-token language modeling objective is misaligned with following user instructions helpfully and safely.Their words
This is because the language modeling objective used for many recent large LMs-predicting the next token on a webpage from the internet-is different from the objective "follow the user's instructions helpfully and safely" (Radford et al.,, 2019; Brown et al.,, 2020; Fedus et al.,, 2021; Rae et al.,, 2021; Thoppilan et al.,, 2022). Thus, we say that the language modeling objective is misaligned.
23 November 2021
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human ValuesTheir words
I just finished this book a few weeks ago and it is still reverberating in my mind
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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of HumanityTheir words
I wouldn’t say that this is the most compelling book I’ve ever read in terms of the prose style or storytelling, but it does provide a very helpful, almost quantitative overview of all the potential threats looming out there
28 October 2020
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Mastering the VC GameTheir words
The interests of a Venture Capitalist are different than those of the entrepreneurs building a company they've invested in. Jeff does an awesome job of helping explain how you can get misaligned in your goals versus your investors. Fortunately, he also covers how to avoid it.
7 October 2019
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality, and the Race to Save the WorldTheir words
Briefly, I think the book is a triumph.
10 July 2019
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Work that’s too fine, too early commits everyone to the wrong details. Designers and programmers need room to apply their own judgement and expertise when they roll up their sleeves and discover all the real trade-offs that emerge.
9 July 2018
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And just as a tornado cannot assemble a Boeing 747 by passing through a junkyard, functional institutions are not spontaneously generated. The machinery, if it functions, was assembled by someone with good judgment: the institution’s founder.
7 March 2018
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What is a korrent?
A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at korrents.com.
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said. The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter, especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked article and a belief on korrents.com are left in their original language.