WOW
Something new dropped: https://twitter.com/FLIxrisk/status/1646539796527951872
Direct link to the policy: https://futureoflife.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/FLI_Policymaking_In_The_Pause.pdf
My reply: https://twitter.com/marsxrobertson/status/1646583463493992462
I’m deeply in “don’t trust verify” camp.
Monitor the energy usage.
Climate change is for real and we need to cut the emissions anyway.
My assumption is: “it takes computer power to train the AI”
“Data centres are estimated to be responsible for up to 3% of global electricity consumption today and are projected to touch 4% by 2030.”—https://datacentremagazine.com/articles/efficiency-to-loom-large-for-data-centre-industry-in-2023
I came to this post by searching for “Metacrisis”.
I genuinely believe that Metacrisis is the underlying mechanism / generator function / incentive (or pervert incentive) affecting loads of existential / catasthropic risks.
A new video just dropped:
The talk literally has “global catastrophic risks” on the title slide.
I think that EA (Give Well, Open Philanthropy) focus too much on one metric such as DALY, without appreciating the interconnectedness and the fact that many things are difficult to measure using a single metric.