argmin gravitas

This class is about a fatal trap that lies in wait for the brilliant but unwary young person: success; other people’s definitions of success.

Assuming that we want a theory of rationality… 1.

Society is unlikely to fall suddenly under the spell of the transhumanist worldview.

This is the editorial for this year’s “Shallow Review of AI Safety”.

Politically, I am a tragedian: It is tragic that we need governments, that we can’t trust markets to deliver what everyone needs.

The best Chinese LLMs offer frontier performance on some benchmarks; massive per-token discounts (~3x on input, ~6x on output); the weights.

Bostrom (2014) defined the AI value loading problem as how could we get some value into an artificial agent, so as to make it pursue that value as its final goal?

In what ways can we can fail to answer a question?

Time… burns without leaving ashes — Elsa Triolet Case study: whither Google Search?

He picks from uncountably many sets simultaneously without an algorithm.