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Robi Rahman🔸

Data Scientist @ MIRI Technical Governance Team
1478 karmaJoined Working (6-15 years)New York, NY, USA
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Data scientist working on AI governance at MIRI, previously forecasting at Epoch and the Stanford AI Index. GWWC pledge member since 2017. Formerly social chair at Harvard Effective Altruism, facilitator for Arete Fellowship, and founder of the DC Slate Star Codex meetup.

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Should All Your Friends/Family Repay You With Donations?
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I'm not a lawyer but this sounds... questionably legal.

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You should probably track your time (and it just got easier)
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Can I take you up on the offer to do a video call and see if we can install it on Chrome OS? Will DM you

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AGI Battle Royale: Why “slow takeover” scenarios devolve into a chaotic multi-AGI fight to the death
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In the same way that two human super powers can't simply make a contract to guarantee world peace, two AI powers could not do so either. 

That's not true. AI can see (and share) its own code.

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Keep EA high-trust
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Just want to note that I think this comment has basically been vindicated in the three years since FTX.

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EA needs more "rooms of one's own"
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I love this idea, and I think you're on to something with

We don't notice how much of EA's "independent thinking" comes from people who can afford to do it.

(but I disagree-voted because I don't think "EA should" do this; I doubt it's cost-effective)

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You should probably track your time (and it just got easier)
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I got to the terminal but wasn't able to access the download and gave up at that step because for some reason I assumed it would only install the app for the linux development environment as opposed to the rest of Chrome OS. I'll try again, and email you if I can't get it working.

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You should probably track your time (and it just got easier)
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Is it possible to use it on Chrome OS somehow? It auto-detects that as Linux but I think it won't work if I use the Linux installer. I'm pretty sure it would be installable as a browser add-on but then not sure if it would work when you're using other programs.

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Utilitarians Should Accept that Some Suffering Cannot be “Offset”
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This isn't deontology, it's lexical-threshold negative utilitarianism.

https://reducing-suffering.org/three-types-of-negative-utilitarianism/

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Announcing: On Underutilization
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For me, it was a moderate update against "bycatch" amongst LTFF grantees (an audience which, in principle, should be especially vulnerable to bycatch)

Really? I think it would be the opposite: LTFF grantees are the most persistent and accomplished applicants and are therefore the least likely to end up as bycatch.

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Please, no more group brainstorming
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Strongly agree with this post. I think my session at EAG Boston 2024 (audience forecasting, which was fairly group-brainstormy) was suboptimal for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

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