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Headline finding: I audited 17 AI Safety Talent programmes. Zero of 17 have published any comparison group, rejected-applicant follow-up, matched control or randomisation. Not one. Every programme that mentions a counterfactual does it by asking participants to self-report.
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Today marks exactly one year since If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All, by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soare...
A year ago I posted that YCombinator (YC) companies didn’t seem to be growing faster since the release of ChatGPT in 2022. I reran that experiment and found that 2023+ YC companies are arguably growing a bit faster than pre-2023 companies (including AfterQuery, ...
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https://ea.greaterwrong.com/posts/NJwqKSbnAgFHogaL2/key-questions-for-digital-minds#comment-S9jjzKf3AaTt62Lja
Leaving this comment up for myself and as a PSA, as the original post by Jacy was deleted shortly after this comment was posted.
Edit: received a message saying the link is broken. I'm not sure why this is, but I think this is an issue if you click the link but not if you copy+paste the link. Screenshot below in any case if this issue persists for others.
DM = digital mind
Archived version of the post (with no comments at the time of the archive). The post is also available on the Sentience Institute blog