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+1 this is discussed in the Andrew Hodges Turing biography (and no doubt many other books)

I don’t find anything offensive about carefully considering how to do good, or taking a longer term view of humanity. I think the thing that is irritating about EA is that it often…

As an atheist parent being forced consider Catholic faith schools out of sheer necessity, this is far from a help. This is geographical blackmail. I have seen teaching material, an…

Western militaries have justice systems, including courts and prisons. I presume they also follow best practice in lots of domains, despite some legal exemptions. They also clearly…

I’ve tried and failed to read it twice - I just find the dialogue and characters so cringeworthy. Nice world building tho.

Agree that AI is at a different stage of development and has a different risk profile, but my idea would be to learn from those 100+ years of nuclear power management (successes an…

Agree progress is rapid, but I was under the impression model training for LLMs was still the preserve of mega-corps, with the support of eg NVDA providing the hardware. Military m…

Can we have a set of national AI agencies, research/production licenses and some permitted off—the-shelf designs? Coordinate internationally via a ‘International AI Agency’ and res…

“ExxonMobil… [acquired]… a smaller Texas oil and gas company with the U.S.’s largest network of pipelines designed to carry carbon dioxide.” There was a great episode of the Volts …

Any optimisations you can make? Will have the advantage of saving you money across all platforms/regions