I’m interested in frontier approaches to understanding & scaling (human) awakening, sentient flourishing, and aligning powerful AI systems.
Views are my own.
Milan Griffes
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It follows that we should question whether the five attributes Griffes identifies are even good attributes to begin with.
what alternative(s) do you prefer?
“AGI” considered harmful
oh the lottery isn’t fictional – we’re executing on the plan as stated!
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i was referring to the big growth in MAUs that started before July 2022 and peaked before January 2023.
why did MAUs spike in Q2 2022? something around FTX?
relatedly how paths towards realizing the Long Reflection are most likely totalitarian
Peter Thiel touches on this point in a recent interview where he argues against Bostrom’s vulnerable world hypothesis.
Positive knock-on effects from funding animal welfare are likely far greater than from funding global health on the present margin.
SBF: “I never thought that what I was doing was illegal”
ACE isn’t fucking around.
Zvi’s take on this is good: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2023/10/24/book-review-going-infinite
There’s a new paper on jhana (in Cerebral Cortex) out of Matthew Sacchet’s Harvard Center: Fu Zun Yang et al. 2023
Got it, thanks. I’m interested in the cattle analysis because cows yield ~4x more meat than pigs per slaughter, and could perform even better than that when factoring in cognition.
This is beautiful, thank you for creating it.
Did you look at cows as part of the analysis?
Apart from pivoting to “x-risk”, what else could we do?
Cultivate approaches to heal psychological wounds and get people above baseline on ability to coordinate and see clearly.CFAR was in the right direction goalwise (though its approach was obviously lacking). EA needs more efforts in that direction.
Some thoughts on “AI could defeat all of us combined”
When is the independent investigation expected to complete?
I wrote a thread with some reactions to this.
(Overall I agree with Tyler’s outlook and many aspects of his story resonate with my own.)
given this, i’m curious how you yourself are making decisions about how to allocate your energy/effort.