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Four: Brian Christian on artificial intelligence

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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The Next Frontier in Social Choice Theory

If there was another chapter in your book, you would have made it about how do we get different agents with conflicting values to play nicely and produce a good outcome? And that's kind of a whole problem of its own. I eventually just ran out of time and space, and the book was already like, 18 months overdue, so sometimes you just have to ship it e a. But, no, i'm very interested in these ons of social choice theory. There's a huge, very rich and sometimes depressingly paradox filled world they're of that sort of multiuser optimization. That work is really just kind of beginning.

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