AI Risk & Governance

The essential problem with AI safety: there will always be some people who are willing to roll the dice.

Steelman Solitaire: How Self-Debate in Workflowy/Roam Beats Freestyle Thinking

Smart people are often rather dumb about AI. ​Specifically, smart people tend to hang out with other smart people. So they say silly things like “AIs aren’t nearly as smart as humans”

If you are a nerd and lonely, apply your nerd powers to social skills

I love that shrimp have become the unofficial EA mascot.

The All-or-Nothing Pause Assumption: people assume that if we can’t pause AI perfectly and forever, it’s uselesss.

If you are a nerd and lonely, apply your nerd powers to social skills. Rational optimization works for pretty much everything, including how to get along with people

Why do people call almost anything a “genocide” these days?

Don’t try to use a scientific or legal definition of a word in an every day conversation

It’s silly to say it’s racist to worry about CCP espionage at big AI labs