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> Anthropic in particular has developed this almost Orwellian like veil of condescending rhetoric that on the surface suggests they're looking out for you while underneath they're …

Note that we only got to observe outcomes in which we didn't die from nuclear annihilation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

I hope they are out-competed by a better alternative.

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Technically, I think it's not that instrumental goals tend to converge, but rather that there are instrumental goals which are common to many terminal goals, which are the so-calle…

You can't take an empirical approach to existential risk as you don't get the opportunity to learn from your mistakes. You have to prospectively reason about it and plan for it.

As the pre-amble to the statement says: they kept the statement limited and succinct as there may be disagreement between the signatories about the exact nature of the risk and wha…

The emergence of something significantly more intelligent than us whose goal are not perfectly aligned with ours poses a pretty clear existential risk. See, for example, the thousa…

The problem is that's unilateralism.

Why are you so confident in calling existential AI risk fantasy?

I think Mastodon solves this problem to some extent, with their federated way of doing things.

It's essentially when information that was used to identify the suspect is presented as confirmation of their guilt. > The witness described a tall, white, black-haired man with a …

Also, the way mathematics is taught at high school might not prepare you well for the way you use it at university. Maths in high school focuses more on applying methods (taking a …

Yes. It is odd that in the British system at age 16 you can choose to study mathematics and physics and literally nothing else. (I blame this for my poor history knowledge.)