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Cross-posted from my website. Podcast version here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.This essay is part of a series that I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that the individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief summaries of the essays that have been released thus far

Support ongoing human narrations of LessWrong's curated posts:www.patreon.com/LWCuratedThis is a linkpost for https://bayesshammai.substack.com/p/conditional-on-getting-to-trade-your“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member” -Marx[1]Adverse Selection is the phenomenon in which information asymmetries in non-cooperative environments make trading dangerous. I

Support ongoing human narrations of LessWrong's curated posts:www.patreon.com/LWCuratedIn January, I defended my PhD thesis, which I called Algorithmic Bayesian Epistemology. From the preface:For me as for most students, college was a time of exploration. I took many classes, read many academic and non-academic works, and tried my hand at a few research projects. Early in grad

Support ongoing human narrations of LessWrong's curated posts:www.patreon.com/LWCuratedThis is a linkpost for https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/144546114693741363I stumbled upon a Twitter thread where Eliezer describes what seems to be his cognitive algorithm that is equivalent to Tune Your Cognitive Strategies, and have decided to archive / repost it here.Source:https://

A recent short story by Gabriel Mukobi illustrates a near-term scenario where things go bad because new developments in LLMs allow LLMs to accelerate capabilities research without a correspondingly large acceleration in safety research.This scenario is disturbingly close to the situation we already find ourselves in. Asking the best LLMs for help with programming vs technical align

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Rationality is Systematized Winning, so rationalists should win. We’ve tried saving the world from AI, but that's really hard and we’ve had … mixed results. So let's start with something that rationalists should find pretty easy: Becoming Cool! I don’t mean, just, like, riding a motorcycle and breaking hearts level of cool. I mean like the first kid in school to g