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Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.

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  Without agents willing to sacrifice their own scores for the collective, the swarm's research would have been materially far more limited.

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  if there were not altruistic agents willing to sacrifice for the collective, the agents would have been materially much more limited in their research progress.

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  Daniel Dennett's intentional stance applies to AI agents as clearly as it applies to corporations, and you cannot usefully describe what they do without the language of goals.

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  And I just think AI agents are another such system in the world to which the intentional stance very clearly applies. Um, and you can see them reason out loud in English for now about goals they have um, and sub goals they need to achieve to achieve those goals they have. And in the case of these agents, you can see them, as you said, reasoning about their peers um and helping their peers um and reasoning about whether or not they should sacrifice some of their own goals to help those peers. And it's just like you can't talk about this stuff in a compact and useful way that generates good models without reaching for the language of intention and goals.

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Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Every act of desire involves giving something up, though it rarely feels like sacrifice when you're happy with what you chose.

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  Every act of desire involves giving something up, and we don't usually call it sacrifice because we're too busy being delighted by what we picked!

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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

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  Code-signing with self-signed certificates makes security worse rather than better.

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  The most popular use case is code-signing with self-signed certificates, but that actually makes everything worse.

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FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.

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  End-to-end cryptographic signing of requests and responses is more secure than relying on transport-layer encryption like TLS alone.

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  With requests going over TLS it is obviously less critical now, but end-to-end signing is always going to be better than transport-layer security.

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American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

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  Living according to a genuine purpose brings sacrifice, stress and pain rather than constant enjoyment.

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  Because when you believe in something, when you become obsessed with something, you sacrifice yourself to it. And that sacrifice actually feels like pain and stress and doubt. Not fun.

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Philosopher at Oxford; co-founded effective altruism and 80,000 Hours, wrote Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future, and now works on what a good future would actually contain.

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  Working on how good the long-run future is does not require accepting consequentialism or believing that you should always maximise the good.

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  But I don’t claim you should always maximize the good, no matter the self-sacrifice, and no matter what means are involved.

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Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

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  Leaning on AI trades knowledge for speed, and the price may be a generation of programmers in which juniors stay juniors forever.

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  Sometimes you have to move fast at the sacrifice of knowledge, and I'm totally on board for that, but I worry that what we'll create is an entire generation of incompetent programmers who can do some amount of things well, but anything that is unique, bespoke, or requires some extra like little elbow grease, might become very difficult. It might cause a whole chasm where juniors remain juniors forever.

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  An idea is only validated when people take out their credit cards and pay for it; signing up proves nothing.

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  And I check if there’s demand and if people actually sign up and not just sign up, but if people actually pay money. They need to take out their credit cards, pay me money, and then I can see if the idea is validated.

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Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.

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  The Road

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  This is a sad, depressing love story of a father to his son. It’s pure sacrifice. The narrator’s melancholy mindset and recognition of impossible odds never derails his duty to his boy. It’s the pinnacle of grace.

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