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I don't even think that what you do with your experiments (with so many complexities and variables) is covered in any textbook. I am...

Excellent. Most of the suggestions you have received can be done with kitchen equipment. This is simply not correct. I have been a peer...

This feels like a problem

AI is certainly over hyped, but even if it is significantly over hyped it can still be totally transformative for society. The hype is...

The sober, expert assessment is that AI could totally transform our civilization in 10-20 years. Certainly, almost all IT jobs could be...

The AI Futures Project is a nonprofit organization that studies the development of AI and attempts to predict the consequences of AI...

Indeed. The argument that "the progression of AI development will remain safe because we can always stop developing and/or using it"...

Nuclear fueling itself might even have been easier than that, according to the experts and their knowledge at the time: The experts -...

With the comparison I was not thinking of the hard singularity scenario. I am thinking about how various groups of people will surely...

... and especially with the new wars and [potentially (but perhaps not as of yet) uncontrollable] conflicts seen after 2022 up to today...

Of all the major AI companies, Anthropic seems to be the most concerned about safety and the one doing the most to study alignment...

Here's a pithy quote from the Anthropic paper: "Training runs are far easier to conceal than missile silos"

I for one, welcome our Argentinian overlords.

I posted a link to Project AI 2027, which gives a much nearer prediction for the attainment of ASI. It gives a plausible scenario for...

The people whose finger is on the power switch either explicitly hate humanity or say things such as "what about China", so I'm not very...