On my read of things, both Lightcone and MIRI are necessary. If the world will be saved at all, it will be saved by people, and those people need community to stay alive and sane and in contact with each other.
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MIRI’s Role in AI Alignment Research and Theory
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MIRI is the organization that I founded in 2000. In the old days it did most of the deep theory on alignment research, if you filter out the wacky optimistic hopium. MIRI is approximately the only organized group on the planet where you can ask "So what goes wrong if you just
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MIRI and Lightcone Final Fundraiser Push Recommendation
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MIRI and Lightcone's SFF-matched fundraisers are coming down to the wire the next 3 days (as such often do). MIRI has $1M of $1.6M remaining on its match. Lightcone needs $1.6M of $2.6M. **If** you're equally motivated to donate to either, I'd say fill Lightcone's first.
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AI Spam Problem Grows: Practical Solutions Needed Now
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not there yet imo, ai spam will only increase and people do not have practical solutions proposed yet that we can feature.
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Sim-to-Real Transfer: The Critical Test for AI Systems
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Same. The sim-to-real jump is the real test. If it holds up, that’s huge!
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The inherent impossibility of reliable AI-generated content detection
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Histoire que ce soit clair une bonne fois pour toutes : il n’existe aucune technique fiable, absolument aucune, permettant de détecter du texte ou des images générés par IA « in the wild ». Et il en existera sans doute jamais. SynthID est craqué. Toutes les approches par
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Humanless cars must route around closed roads to avoid chaos
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It's not just a driving experience. Soon, we're going to have cars on our streets with no humans in them. These humanless cars need to route around this stuff, too, and not cause a bigger mess. If all the Teslas keep trying to go down roads that are closed, they're going to sit
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Why AGI isn’t here: Tesla didn’t understand road blockage
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Here's why I know AGI isn't here yet: there was just a major road blockage at Cottle Road and Blossom Hill Road in South San Jose. There is some sort of major police and fire action going on that has blocked quite a few roads at that intersection, and Tesla didn't understand
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AGI and ASI Must Develop Technohuman Competencies
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Artificial general intelligence and artificial superintelligence must have technohuman competencies.
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Framing consequences for high-stakes LLM responses
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Think about it: When you write an email to a friend → casual
When you write an email that could get you fired → every word matters LLMs learned from both types of text. By framing consequences, you're telling the model: "use the high-stakes mode."