"The AI Dilemma" presentation by Center for Humane Technology: specifically the speakers Tristan Harris and Asa Raskin is the most compelling case for slowing down and getting more cautious “moving at the speed of getting it right” with generative AI I’ve heard. How might we get more people to give it a listen? https://pod.link/1460030305/episode/f4415952ef979f94cf5a55e19fc80bd8
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Subtitle: If acceleration compounds, the naive extrapolation implies superintelligence within a year
This post discusses a public METR report on AI R&D acceler...
TL;DR:
* When we started Rethink Priorities (RP) in 2018, our mission was, simply put, to close the knowledge gaps that stopped people from improving the world as much as they could. That hasn’t changed much, but the landscape we’re doing it in is shifting.
* In 2027, we plan to grow our core GHD, Animal Welfare, and Worldview Investigations teams to take on emerging priorities across causes, including those that the forthcoming transformative AI is creating.
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This post is part of the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund (CCF) series on how to allocate funding across causes when it is uncertain what matters most.
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What lost my interest for 3 years? Seems likely related to something that was different 2023-2026
-Lots of job changes, which, fair, but I could just as easily posted here about the chaos that is DOGE and its terrible impacts as elsewhere.
-Family has continued changing on smooth trajectory since
-Likely replaced need for digital community with a large ecosystem of signal chats.
--Those are encrypted end to end
--They offer immediate stimulation and engagement
--They are more directly work adjacent
--They feel a lot less formal
---They dont feel like a burden to jump in and out of. Logging on here feels like work.
I guess bottom line is.... Hit me up on signal?
@richardiporter.11
https://signal.me/#eu/LThjPa40ZBRT0kJTX-hbHR883WZrY3uoMTN87doO309r1-6rslxI96IIxJE5uggO