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David Krueger–Coordination, Alignment, Academia
The Inside View
The Pressure to Build an Agent
Being an agent is, you know, it means a bunch of different things to different people. In this context, it's sort of the term of art in the online, uh, existential safety, mirror, less wrong alignment community. You're thinking about how your actions will affect the world and planning for the future. Even if you were just doing prediction, like somehow that thing turned into an agent. And then the question is like, how could that happen? Why could that happen?"
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