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Why on fire? Do you think Twitter stock will be worth much less soon? He can sell the stock at some point, hopefully after appreciation.
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‘Like most of life’s dangers, the dangers of artificial intelligence are not easily identified from the armchair.’
J Dmitri Gallow
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I’m not an expert in this field, and herein I make some sweeping generalisations educated guesses about the overall...
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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...
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* 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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Just FYI, while Elon Musk has participated in an EA conference and is somewhat EA-adjacent (by example by being on the board of FLI); I would say most people in the community wouldn't consider him an EA and generally don't treat him as a role model. This is my perspective based on conversations with other EAs, but it is only an impression based on limited interactions.