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* GOAL 3 is a social enterprise that created IMPALA, a patient monitoring and digital platform system for low-resource settings. There is also a GOAL 3 foundation that raises funds to ensure underserved communities will be reached.
* A recently completed report from Rethink Priorities calculated IMPALA to have a cost per DALY averted of $7–17 in paediatr...
This month effective altruism has gotten lots of attention, including a cover story in The Economist. It feels pretty surreal to be on the receiving end of it. But I feel grateful these ideas have caught on, and even more grateful for the drive, earnestness, and compassion of so many people who took strange but well-argued ideas seriously and then actually acted on them....
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Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA
I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes.
On factory farming
1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last lo...
Yes, fully agree. The only reason current models are (relatively) safe is because they are weaker than us. Open AI brag that:
29%!? That's really not going to cut it when the models are able to overpower us (or produce output that does). All the doom will flow through the tiniest cracks of imperfect alignment. In the limit of superintelligent AI, we need 100% perfect, 0 failure modes, alignment. And the burden should totally be on the company releasing the model that has the potential to scale to superintelligence (and endangering all 8 billion people on the planet), to prove that.
If there are small remaining risks, then releasing the model needs to be a globally democratic decision (e.g. by unanimous vote at the UN).