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Rob Bensinger 🔍
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Comms czar . RT = increased vague psychological association between myself and the tweet.
Berkeley, Californianothingismere.comJoined November 2008

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"Bad take" bingo cards are terrible, because they never actually say what's wrong with any of the arguments they're making fun of. So here's the "bad AI alignment take bingo" meme that's been going around... but with actual responses to the "bad takes"!
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"If we create objects that are as smart or smarter than us, there is nobody in the world that can give a good scientific justification of why that should be safe," Mr Warner said. "At the very least, there needs to be sort of strong limits on the amount of compute [processing… Show more
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Powerful artificial-intelligence ban possible, government adviser warns bbc.in/43Delql
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Many people I know (>100) have felt bullied and silenced about AI extinction risk, for many years, by being treated as crazy or irrational. Many of them were relative experts who knew AI would present an extinction risk to humanity, but said little or nothing in public or even to… Show more
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This is honestly half of AI X-risk criticism
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Remembering a girl I used to work with who didn’t believe in dinosaurs, not for religious reasons but bc “It’s just so silly…” Any time I tried to get her to elaborate, she’d be like “I mean…big monsters? Like…” and mime being a T-Rex until she was giggling too much to breathe
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Is there any extant novel philosophy text from after Boethius (AD 524) and before the Carolingians (AD ~800)?
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they didn’t exist and weren’t important twitter.com/bad_histories/…
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Acknowledging the issue's importance, raising the alarm, and getting to work solving AGI alignment and nonproliferation, all while continuing to speak frankly and normally about the topic. Because we don't have to choose one or the other, and the 12D chess options have failed us.
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Not slipping into weird guarded language because it feels like an important geopolitics topic. Not getting hyper-conservative (or unrigorous) about what you're willing to think about because AI sounds too sci-fi to you.
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I think that if humanity treated smarter-than-human AI the way we treat ordinary everyday topics, we'd be in a pretty good place. One of my top goals is just to encourage more ordinary thinking and talking about AI. (A more ambitious goal than it maybe sounds.)
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Basic orientation to what is and isn't easy about AI alignment requires the first list. I didn't skip this step; others tried to skim my notes; and the ones who don't skim my notes seem to have no clue whatsoever. This by itself seems to me to explain most disagreement.
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Replying to @IAmTimNguyen
Evolutionary psychology integrates biology, anthropology, primatology, genetics, neuroscience, cognitive science, economics, decision throty, and game theory, with connections to most of the social sciences, humanities, law, medicine, and policy. FWIW.
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"Georgetown Uni's Center for Security and Emerging Technology is accepting applications for AI Safety / AI Assurance research grants. They offer up to $750k per project accepted, expended over 6-24 months. 1-2 page expression of interest due Aug 1." "
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝟲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀: “Of course, we won’t give the AI internet access” 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘉𝘪𝘯𝘨: 🤪 “Of course, we’ll keep it in a box” 𝘍𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬: 😜 “Of course, we won’t build autonomous weapons” 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳: 😚 “Of course, we’ll coordinate and… Show more
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I personally know a good % of the ~300 people working on AI X-risk, and whether their beliefs are correct, ~everyone I know is authentically motivated. Many have sacrificed happiness and relationships to work on this problem for what they expect to be the rest of their lives.
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"Having more ideologically pro-safety AI designers win an ‘arms race’ against less concerned teams 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗲" -… Show more
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