The solution to societal destabilization due to massive increases in power is to give that power to a small number of good people—such as people who are really rich, powerful, and good at getting people to give them power. (That's how society actually ran for centuries BTW.)
ETHICS
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ASI Alignment Requires Prior Political and Social Coordination
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So ASI alignment is only interesting and important if we can *first* achieve political and social alignment of near-ASI technology. (If we navigate that successfully, then we'll actually be better placed to handle ASI as a global community anyway.)
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AI Power Consolidation and Feudal System Risks
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At this point, if it is used to consolidate power and create a permanent feudal system where 99.999% of humanity live in misery and can't do anything about it, then that's a problem.
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Opinions and Social Consequences: Ethics Beyond Primal Behaviors
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opinions must carry *some* consequence or it’ll all devolve into primal stuff like racism
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Anonymous Accounts Incentivized by Engagement Create Social Network Risks
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Here’s a fun experiment to try if building a social network: take anon accounts and incentivize them (with cash) purely on engagement. Utopia. /s
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Controlling Superintelligent AI Before Loss of Human Control
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If there's some speculative future scenario where ASI is so powerful that humans can no longer control it, then there's an intermediate point before that where it's still extremely powerful, but humans still can control it.
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AI Control Already Exists: Probability Assessment
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People already have AI control right now. So the probability is 1.
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Merit Over Bias: Hard Work Transcends Borders and Prejudice
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i know some people are gonna hate me for this, but: hard work doesn’t care where your parents were standing on the map when you were born. if you’re really as good as you say you are,
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AGI Economic Implications: Labor Displacement and Human Work Value
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Some new theoretical economics papers looking at the implications of AGI. These two papers argue that a true AGI-level AI (equivalent to a human genius), if achieved, would eventually displace most human labor and reduce the economic value of remaining human work to near-zero.
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Neuralink’s New Clinical Trial Translates Thoughts into Text
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Neuralink to start clinical trial of a new device that will translate thoughts into text. Mind reading will soon become a reality, fiction and reality are increasingly blurring; sci-fi is becoming everyday life.