I’ve argued that the AI situation is not clearly an ‘arms race’. By which I mean, going fast is not clearly good, even selfishly.
I think this is a hard point to get across. Like, these people are RACING. They say they are RACING. They are GOING FAST. …
“We can’t prevent progress” say the people for some reason enthusiastically advocating that we just risk dying by AI rather than even consider contravening this law.
I have several problems with this, beyond those unsubtly hinted at above.
First, it…
“…was anyone ever so young? I am here to tell you that someone was…”
– Joan Didion, on being a twenty-year-old in New York City, “Goodbye to All That”
Well I am here to tell you that someone was even younger than that.
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There is a particular flavor of suffering I fear: where something is not just unpleasant, but is requiring active effort from you to continue having the unpleasant thing happen, and so you have to not only suffer the suffering, but also the constant th…
Common wisdom says that it is incredibly hard to coordinate to not build more dangerous AI. This sounds believable in the abstract: international geopolitics arms race game theory something something.
But pragmatically, what exactly is the difficulty…