Leon_Lang

• Leon_Lang 31 May 2023 23:13 UTC

  8 points

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  on: A moral back­lash against AI will prob­a­bly slow down AGI development

  Conditional on this happening, does this lead to a non-negligible likelihood that humanity would never create AGI since the stigma increases to greater proportions than developing AGI becomes easier?

• Leon_Lang 10 Apr 2023 2:32 UTC

  5 points

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  in reply to: Håkon Harnes’s comment on: New sur­vey: 46% of Amer­i­cans are con­cerned about ex­tinc­tion from AI; 69% sup­port a six-month pause in AI development

  This is not necessarily contradictory since European green parties do not always improve on the climate situation. E.g., they tend to be very opposed to nuclear energy even though it might be quite helpful to combat climate change.

• Leon_Lang 21 Nov 2022 22:13 UTC

  1 point

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  on: AI Safety Un­con­fer­ence NeurIPS 2022

  I’ve tried joining the matrix chat room, but got the following error:

  MatrixError: [403] You do not belong to any of the required rooms/​spaces to join this room. (https://​​matrix-client.matrix.org/​​_matrix/​​client/​​r0/​​join/​​!kTsOmBGiyQWKmETKhS%3Aone.ems.host?server_name=one.ems.host)

  What do I need to do to join?

• Leon_Lang 13 Nov 2022 17:35 UTC

  42 points

  3 ∶ 0

  on: Thoughts on le­gal con­cerns sur­round­ing the FTX situation

  Essentially, if you received money from an FTX entity in the debtor group anytime on or after approximately August 11, 2022, the bankruptcy process will probably ask you, at some point, to pay all or part of that money back.

  I received a travel grant from the FTX regranting program after August 11. Does this mean I will likely have to pay this money back, or does this depend on when the FTX Future Fund itself received the money from FTX?

• Leon_Lang 11 Nov 2022 9:56 UTC

  9 points

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  in reply to: Sabs’s comment on: The FTX Fu­ture Fund team has resigned

  I have no idea under what circumstances clawbacks can happen. If you have good reasons to believe this is plausible, then it seems worth it to write a top level post on it.

Distri­bu­tion Shifts and The Im­por­tance of AI Safety

• Leon_Lang 24 Sep 2022 23:31 UTC

  2 points

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  in reply to: Geoffrey Miller’s comment on: An­nounc­ing the Fu­ture Fund’s AI Wor­ld­view Prize

  Yes, that makes sense. How about stating that reasoning and thereby nudging participants to post in the EA forum/​LessWrong/​Alignment Forum, but additionally have a non-public submission form? My guess would be that only a small number of participants would then submit via the form, so the amount of additional work should be limited. This bet seems better to me than the current bet where you might miss really important contributions.

• Leon_Lang 24 Sep 2022 13:45 UTC

  29 points

  18 ∶ 1

  in reply to: Nick_Beckstead’s comment on: An­nounc­ing the Fu­ture Fund’s AI Wor­ld­view Prize

  … if only they had allowed people not to publish on EA Forum, LessWrong, and Alignment Forum :)

  Honestly, it seems like a mistake to me to not allow other ways of submission. For example, some people may not want to publicly apply for a price or be associated with our communities. An additional submission form might help with that.

Sum­maries: Align­ment Fun­da­men­tals Curriculum

• Leon_Lang 2 Jun 2022 19:49 UTC

  1 point

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  on: Con­test: 250€ for trans­la­tion of “longter­mism” to German

  Langzeitismus

  Langzeitfokus

  Langzeitpriorisierung

  Zukunftismus

  Zukunftsfokus

  Zukunftspriorisierung

  Priorisierung der fernen Zukunft

• Leon_Lang 15 Oct 2021 9:29 UTC

  18 points

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  on: An up­date in fa­vor of try­ing to make tens of billions of dollars

  His parents are Stanford law professors. I think this is a more impressive fact than the other items one could have observed about Sam prior to becoming extremely successful.

• Leon_Lang 20 Aug 2019 17:13 UTC

  5 points

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  in reply to: William_MacAskill’s comment on: Ask Me Any­thing!

  Thanks for these interesting points!

  About the first 3 statements on existential risks, takeoff scenarios and how influential our time is: How much is your view the general wisdom of experts in the corresponding research fields (I’m not sure what this field would be for assessing our influence on the future) and how much is it something like your own internal view?