The Last Invention
Nick Bostrom in a recent interview: Superintelligence could come within a year, and it will be the "last invention
Robot Alignment
“Silicon Valley’s incentives might not be aligned with the rest of humanity”. AI Faces Its ‘Oppenheimer Moment’ During Killer
All the Wrong Disasters
“To me, here’s the story: We are preparing for the wrong disaster almost everywhere,” Source: Washington Post
The Future of The Future
The future is going to be so much worse than you think, even if you think it will be worse
On What It Feels Like to Be Wrong
"[T]he whole reason it’s possible to be wrong is that, while it is happening, you are oblivious
Is Job Transitioning Getting Harder? Maybe
I’m trying to decided if I buy this data, which appeals to me given my priors about growing structural
Weekend Readings: p(doom), Al Capone, Regime Change, College, etc.
On p(doom), college requirements, LLM ecologies, and Al Capone
Three Things: Fractal Violence, the Microsoft of AI, and Galloping Gertie
Things to think about: The fractal nature of violence. Why there will be no "next Microsoft" of AI/. Galloping Gertie and the recent North American heat wave