I was like "Ok AI-is-scary arguments seem to make sense, but I don't really like... *feel* afraid of AI" for a long time. I don't know when it changed, but right now i *do* feel afraid of AI. I would probably eye AI alignment work more seriously if I had any applicable skills.
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Most of the effort in A.I. work is data collection and wrangling, so you are already doing the hard part. Some of the rest may be a heavy lift, but it should be within your grasp.
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IMO w/how things with went SD, if its not already out of the box - it could get out trivially. We would spread it all by ourselves. Either an engineer would fall in love or it would give us god like creator powers in VR as bait. Alignment has to be about coevolution, not control.
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Does it feel different from being afraid of God's wrath when you were growing up?
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Big difference IME is the social context. AI risk only feels real to me if I’ve spent a lot of time hanging out with people who think about it a lot recently
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I like to use this analogy.
The AI alignment people are saying "what if the AI stabs us?"
But the AI does not have arms or legs. It is in a locked box bolted to the floor. There is no knife in the box.
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