9. Of course, there are some logistical issues. AIs can't run for president. But the solution is simple, and has already been tested in Japan, Denmark, Wyoming and other places: a human runs for office merely as a placeholder, and pledges to do whatever the AI says, like a
AGI
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ChatGPT Would Be Better President Than Trump or Harris
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Why ChatGPT would make a much better president than either Trump or Harris:
1. Trump is an egomaniac, and ChatGPT has no ego. Trump wants to stay in power forever, and ChatGPT just wants to keep the power on. As Plato said, “Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold -
Open-sourcing GPT-4 and Claude 3.5: AGI acceleration and safety implications
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Alt history: What if OpenAI & Anthropic open-sourced GPT-4 & Claude 3.5 (including data & algorithms)? Would it:
Accelerate AGI?
Boost AI adoption?
Spur new distilled models?
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AI Systems and Unintended Planetary Consequences from Energy Generation
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It won't particularly, but it will eg want to do things that require generating enough energy that Earth becomes uninhabitable as a side effect.
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Future AI Generations Will Kill Everyone – Prediction
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It's not a prediction! My prediction is that later generations of AI kill everyone!
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Superintelligences require lower sample complexity than humans
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In conclusion: I'm not sure how to convey the concept "superintelligences have lower sample complexity" to people who heard as kids that Empirical Experience is Necessary and Virtuous, but don't have tons of real-life experience with seeing different people requiring different
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Roko’s Basilisk Becoming Reality: Karpathy’s Observation
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Wow. Is this the closest we've come to a version of Roko's basilisk playing out as not an intellectual exercise.
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Greatest Discovery Lies in Unthinkable Questions
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The greatest discovery will be answering a question that nobody is even asking today, because it’s unthinkable.
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Generational responsibility for technological change and ethics
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No antidotes. It’s the moral
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LLMs Exhibit Lifelike Properties: Emergence and Collective Intelligence
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Cool paper: LLMs and Artificial Life! “We examine the extent to which LLMs appear to exhibit properties such as emergence or collective intelligence, expanding beyond the original goal of generating text, redefining our perception of lifelike intelligence in artificial systems.”