From the guy who did LSD with dolphins 😂 The last link goes to the Wiki page on existential risk from artificial general intelligence en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._L…

New blog post: A short conceptual explainer of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason unstableontology.com/2022/06/03/a-s…

I think the (objective, observer-independent) view from nowhere is about as real (and not real) as the standard model of the naturals. Realized in a convo w jessicat

Very deep and insightful piece about overcoming abuse

Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ Richard Sutton Eliezer, your presumption that a typical superintelligence is motivated to actions by their predicted consequences for some simple function of the positions of atoms in the Hubble volume seems almost as misguided as the presumption that it would be motivated by childlike wonder.

Alex may sound a little off the wall, but he’s one of the most nuanced holistic thinkers I’ve met. Worth a listen/read.

A *really* interesting, provocative, and thoughtful podcast interviewing my friend Alex, who has some of the most novel (and carefully considered) thoughts on AI alignment I've encountered.

Some people have an unusually strong psychedelic effect on others, eg Nick This happens when a generative person goes deep into a memetic Galápagos & comes back w/ a worldview. tylercowen writes about this in Talent Alex Zhu journeyed for 5y & 'came online' today

Alex Zhu this was great lots of religions and leaders seem to converge on this idea of a spiritual evolution being the next step for humans ekharte tolle being one of the biggest

very aligned

This is my bf! He’s finally sharing his views on spirituality and AI alignment When we first met, I thought his interest in spirituality was insane. But he’s gotten way warmer and better at admitting when he’s wrong as he’s deepened his spiritual development 🥰

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Alex Zhu I’m skeptical about most of the podcast but I do quite like these excerpts (especially the quote from Vassar at the end). Concepts like self-deception, trauma and non-striving motivation could be important for understanding how humans and AIs should interact.

ASIAN INVASION x3 Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱 Alex Zhu

Modern mainstream science: There is no plausible physical basis for “auras” emanating from bodies, and certainly not for their perception by others. Human-computer interface engineers: As everyone knows, there are body-area electric fields. These interfere from up to 2-4m apart.

Here's how AI will play out over the next decades. Tldr its another industrial revolution, and we're not replacing human minds. Current paradigm (transformers or similar) will get increasingly good at doing work that we can gather or generate lots of data for — "in-distribution

Wild - Pope Francis became the first pontiff to address a G7 summit and his main message was to warn about AI.

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