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My thoughts on nanotechnology strategy research as an EA cause area
felix.h2y2
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Great post!

I was thinking recently about nanotechnology as an x-risk, so it's awesome you took the time to research this. Nanotechnology features heavily in early writings on x-risk and trans-humanism, sometimes even being mentioned more prominently than AI-risk. Which as I understand it coincided with a strong push of public and private investments in all things nanotech from around 2000 (although not always APM). From 2010 on investment seems to have gone down and a lot of people in the space, like Eric Drexler and Nick Bostrom, redirected their attentio... (read more)

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Ben Snodin
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Yeah, I think that progress in nanotech stuff has been very slow over the past 20 years, whereas progress in AI stuff has sped up a lot (and investment has increased a huge amount). Based on that, it seems reasonable to focus more on making the development of powerful AI go well for the world and to think less about nanotech, so I think this is at least part of the story.
Open and Welcome Thread: February 2021
felix.h3y2
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Thank you for the welcome, and the encouragement!

I was already thinking about re-posting some interviews here, but was a bit worried about too much self-promotion, so glad you suggested it :)

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BrianTan
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No problem! Posting a few (1-3 ) interviews/issues first should be fine.
Do power laws drive politics?
felix.h3y1
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Good point! I can't say I have an immediate response, but I'm gonna think a bit more about this.

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Do power laws drive politics?
felix.h3y1
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Thank you! Great post, with a lot of what I was looking for in there.

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Open and Welcome Thread: February 2021
felix.h3y10
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Hi everyone! I have been interested in EA, and adjacent fields, for little over a year now. So I thought it was time to register here.

I work in journalism, although not always on EA-related topics. As a side-project I also run a little newsletter about, among other issues, x-risk.

So hope being here can help advance my thinking, and maybe even support me in doing more good.

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BrianTan
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Welcome to the Forum Felix! It's good to have another journalist interested in EA (and hopefully writing about it in an informed way). I think there's relatively few of you.  It's cool that you have a newsletter on x-risk. Maybe you could consider cross-posting an upcoming or previous writing of yours on this Forum? The interview you had with Tom Chivers might be interesting to people interested in AI Safety here.  You can include a short summary of the post and why you think people might want to read it when cross-posting. Just a suggestion in case you'd find more subscribers or readers here. You could also link to your newsletter and include a short bio of yourself in your Forum so people can find it that way. :)
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Aaron Gertler
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Welcome to the Forum!  I hope your experience here is good; let me know if there's anything I can help with. (I'm the lead moderator and work for CEA, which runs the site.)