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All these vapid tweets, every day: We can’t afford to be “vagueposting” about the near-term rise of AGI. We need concrete steps regarding what to do, specifically – even if…
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The transition from anaerobic to aerobic (oxygen-using) life was arguably the single most destructive, creative and protective complexity transition in the entire history of life as we know it. First,…
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Enough “What’s your p(Doom)?” How about asking: “What’s your p(Bloom)?” Asking someone for their “p(bloom)” means asking them: “What is the likelihood that AGI will cause all sentient and autopoietic…
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Identity is an incredibly strong force in the human psyche, and it manifests itself in all kinds of social science contexts: Determining what actions are “best” for us (or our…
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AGI risk seems lower than it is because the people who know that AGI risk exists are almost all incentivized against talking about it openly. Broadly, there are two groups…
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Some AI thinkers and funders believe that any governance is a net negative for innovation and signals dictatorship or oligarchy. Arguments for this position include: In this article, I’ll argue…
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If life is a flame that we presume to have started some 2.5B years ago, with a feeble simmering in some volcanic pool somewhere, then we might think about all…
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Much of the current AGI dialogue takes place under the umbrella of an unquestioned anthropocentric perspective. We can often take for granted that: The purpose of this very brief article…
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We assume that the tech founders who are building artificial general intelligence (AGI) care about safety. The firms closest to creating AGI are sure to talk about it a lot….
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Not that long ago, I posted an article titled: Arguments Against Friendly AI and Inevitable Machine Benevolence, and it resulted in an interesting dialogue with Ben Goertzel (his comments, and…