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Taking pleasure in being wrong (with Buck Shlegeris)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Importance of Using Futurism in AI Alignment Research

I think there is no real way around the fact that you have to engage in futurism in order to decide which alignment research is going to be useful. Guessing how the future of technology is going to develop is how we decided we should work on AI alignment at all. There's something pretty satisfying about the knowledge that we're just trying to develop some technology that is almost surely developable rather than trying to solve a problem that might be impossible.

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