“We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.” – Marc Andreessen
SAFETY
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Post-Truth Era: Deepfakes and Image Manipulation Beyond AI
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This post-truth era doesn’t feel like chaotic science fiction—it's mundane. A pervasive, low-grade disorientation, suspicion, and distrust. The royal-photo fiasco shows the deepfake age doesn’t need to be powered by generative AI—a hasty Photoshop will do.
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Realistic AI Policy Approaches Beyond Pause or Acceleration
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I think the chance of an actual pause or an even bringing AI development to a crashing halt (model collapse, lawsuits) is basically zero I would love to see more discussion about realistic approaches to policy-making from both people afraid of AI and develop-at-all-cost boosters
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AI’s Mixed Consequences: Modeling Benefits While Mitigating Harms
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Every time I post something negative about AI, I get comments about why I am positive about it in other posts, and vice-versa. The consequences of AI, like any General Purpose Technology, will be mixed. So we need to model the positive changes while mitigating negative outcomes.
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Managing Disruption with Equanimity in AI Era
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The idea is not to get away from commotion. Commotion is inevitable. The idea is to deal with it with equanimity.
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AGI Alignment vs. Relying on Unaligned AI Systems
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AGI alignment is a different survival strategy from making lots of unaligned AIs and hoping to be included in their human-respecting legal system. If they care about you, you've got no need for multipolar copium. The hard part is that caring bit.
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Superintelligence Indifference to Humanity and Existential Risk
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Because it doesn't care one way or the other, humanity is very easy for a superintelligence to genocide including as a side effect, and (1) the process of launching seed ships is liable to involve interim steps like building a Dyson sphere locally and (2) even after you've
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Aligning ASI to Human Moral Reasoning as Internal Preference
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You need to have aligned an ASI to the framework of human moral reasoning being Its own internal preference, before It cares more about what is moral than you care about what is clippy (leads to the most paperclips, or rhombuses, or giant clocks).
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ASI Rule of Law Argument Based on Analogy, Not First Principle
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And furthermore, the claim that ASIs would need to imitate human-style "rule of law" to the point of it respecting human life and property rights, is itself an argument from sheer analogy. I replied to an analogy with another analogy; I did not throw the first punch.
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Multiple Transhuman AIs and Existential Risk Arguments
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In reply to a claim that I couldn't possibly "back up with detailed reasoning" the above: The detailed argument not-from-analogy is that even if there's multiple AIs of equivalent transhuman intelligence levels, at the point everything finally goes down, we should expect those