This post summarizes "Against the Singularity Hypothesis," a Global Priorities Institute Working Paper by David Thorstad. This post is part of my sequence of GPI Working Paper summaries. For more, Thorstad’s blog, Reflective Altruism, has a three...
This post was partly inspired by, and shares some themes with, this Joe Carlsmith post. My post (unsurprisingly) expresses fewer concepts with less clarity and resonance, but is hopefully of some value regardless.
Content warning: description of animal death.
I live in a ...
This post was moving, thank you for writing it. I have dealt with a similar situation, and found it impossible. I've dealt with that impossibility by trying to justify what I've done, and absolve myself. Your post is forthright: you killed the moths. We can move on from it, but we don't need to rationalize it.
Please note that my previous post took the following positions:
1. That SBF did terrible acts that harmed people.
2. That it was necessary that he be punished. To the extent that it wasn't implied by the previous comment, I clarify that what he did was illegal (EDIT: which would involve a finding of culpable mental states that would imply that his wrongdoing was no innocent or negligent mistake).
3. The post doesn't even take a position as to whether the 25 years is an appropriate sentence.
All of the preceding is consistent with the proposition that he also a...
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Thanks for writing and sharing this Alexander – I thought it was an unusually helpful and transparent post.
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I am following the advice of Aaron Gertler and writing a post about my job. 80000 hours has independent career path pages dedicated to getting an economics PhD and doing academic research, but the specifics of my personal experience may be of interest. Plus, it was fun ...
This post is part of a series by Convergence Analysis’ AI Clarity team.
Justin Bullock and Elliot Mckernon have recently motivated AI Clarity’s focus on the notion of transformative AI (TAI). In an earlier post, Corin Katzke introduced...
Hi Jack, thanks for your comment! I think you've raised some really interesting points here.
I agree that it would be valuable to consider the effect of social and political feedback loops on timelines. This isn't something I have spent much time thinking about yet - indeed, when discussing forecast models within this article, I focused far more on E1 than I did on E2. But I think that (a) some closer examination of E2 and (b) exploration of the effect of social/political factors on AI scenarios and their underlying strategic parameters - including th...
I'm not sure I understand this claim, and I can't see that it's supported by the cited paper.
Is the claim that energy costs have increased faster than computation? This would be cruxy, but it would also be incorrect.