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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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In our first-ever episode of The Trajectory podcast, Yoshua Bengio shared his ideas in our “AGI Destinations” series (playlist here). At the very end of that interview, I asked him…
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle Many who would read those words and smile confidently, knowing…
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The attenuation of humans-as-they-are, and the necessity of discussing what we should turn into (and creating or turning into that new thing) is an uncomfortable and sacrilegious idea in 2025,…
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This is an interview with Emmett Shear, CEO of SoftMax, co-founder of Twitch, former interim CEO of OpenAI, and one of the few public-facing tech leaders who seems to take…
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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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People often read about the worthy successor, or generally axiologically cosmic ideas, and ask: “Okay, Dan, but how do I actually DO something about this?” As it turns out, there…
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Like it or not, we humans share the fate of all forms (individuals, species, substrates): To transform or be destroyed. I suspect we have from 15 to 40 years before…
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Given a long enough time horizon, all things (individuals, species, forms) die out completely or transform into something else. Lucretius and the second law of thermodynamics concur here. In this…
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This is an interview with Joshua Clymer, a technical AI safety researcher at Redwood Research. Before that, he researched AI threat models and developed evaluations for self-improvement capabilities at METR….
