yanni kyriacos

Co-Founder & Director @ AI Safety ANZ
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Creating superintelligent artificial agents without a worldwide referendum is ethically unjustifiable. Until a consensus is reached on whether to bring into existence such technology, a global moratorium is required (n.b. we already have AGI).

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I'm pretty confident that Marketing is in the top 1-3 skill bases for aspiring Community / Movement Builders.

When I say Marketing, I mean it in the broad sense it used to mean. In recent years "Marketing" = "Advertising", but I use the classic Four P's of Marketing to describe it.

The best places to get such a skill base is at FMCG / mass marketing organisations such as the below. Second best would be consulting firms (McKinsey & Company):

  • Procter & Gamble (P&G)
  • Unilever
  • Coca-Cola
  • Amazon

    The 4 Ps Of Marketing: What They Are And How To Master Them

1. Product
- What you're selling (goods or services)
- Features and benefits
- Quality, design, packaging
- Brand name and reputation
- Customer service and support

2. Price
- Retail/wholesale pricing
- Discounts and promotions
- Payment terms
- Pricing strategy (premium, economy, etc.)
- Price comparison with competitors

3. Place (Distribution)
- Sales channels
- Physical/online locations
- Market coverage
- Inventory management
- Transportation and logistics
- Accessibility to customers

4. Promotion
- Advertising
- Public relations
- Sales promotions
- Direct marketing
- Digital marketing
- Personal selling

Flaming hot take: if you think Digital Sentience should be taken seriously but not Human Awakening / Enlightenment, then EA culture might have its hooks in a bit deep.

TLDR you can experience Awakening now, or, you can wait 3 years and an LLM will do it for you.

Having a nondual Awakening was the second most important thing to happen to me (after my daughters birth). It has led to incredibly low levels of suffering and incredibly high levels of wellbeing. I write this because I think it is still incredibly under-appreciated and attainable for most people (maybe literally anyone).

There are traditions (Dzogchen, Zen, modern nonduality) where this shift in consciousness can be experienced simply by hearing the right combination of words and insights. As our understanding and tools for communicating these insights evolve, including through advances in AI, I believe this transformative experience could become accessible to many more people.

Yeah I've seen that. I think costly-signalling is very real, and the effort to create something formal, polished and thoughtful would go a long way. But obviously i have no idea what else you've got on your plate so YMMV

Hello Habryka! I occasionally see you post something OP critical and am now wondering “is there a single post where Habryka shares all of his OP related critiques in one spot?”

If that does exist I think it could be very valuable to do.

I spent some time with Claude this morning trying to figure out why I find it cringe calling myself an EA (I never call myself an EA, even though many in EA would call me an EA).

The reason: calling myself "EA" feels cringe because it's inherently a movement/community label - it always carries that social identity baggage with it, even when I'm just trying to describe my personal philosophical views.

I am happy to describe myself as a Buddhist or Utilitarian because I don't think it does those things (at least, not within the broader community context I find myself in - Western, Online, Democratic, Australia, etc).

I mean, I'm mostly riffing here, but according to Claude: "Agriculture independently developed in approximately 7-12 major centers around the world."

If we ran the simulation 100 times, would AGI appear in > 7-12 centres around the world? Maybe, I dunno.

Anyway, Happy Friday det!

Imagine running 100 simulations of humanity's story. In every single one, the same pattern emerges: The moment we choose agriculture over hunting and gathering, we unknowingly start a countdown to our own extinction through AGI. If this were true, I think it suggests that our best chance at long-term survival is to stay as hunter-gatherers - and that what we call 'progress' is actually a kind of cosmic trap.

Saying the quiet part out loud: it can make sense to ask for a Pause right now without wanting a Pause right now.

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