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The Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning + A.I.’s Existential Risks
The Obsolescence Regime and How it Sidelines Human Power
AI Key Takeaways
- The obsolescence regime is a potential future endpoint where humans have to rely on AI systems to make competitive decisions.
- In the obsolescence regime, military generals would have to listen to their AI strategy advisors because they are better at strategy than humans.
- AI may become necessary for significant technological inventions that make money.
- Refusing to use AI could lead to losing power or being niche in the professional world, similarly to refusing to use computers.
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Why A.I. Might Not Take Your Job or Supercharge the Economy
The Internet Both Improved and Detracted from Productivity — So Might AI
AI Key Takeaways
- The internet does make people more productive, but it also takes away from productivity
- We underestimated the shadow side of the internet
- The amount of content and entertainment on the internet causes distraction
- Humanity will be 30 to 45% more distracted than they are now
- People will be angrier, annoyed, and tired from the internet
- People will have less ability to hold a train of thought
- The time people spend focusing their attention on one thing will reduce
- The internet reduces the amount of time for reflection and contemplation
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Why A.I. Might Not Take Your Job or Supercharge the Economy
Lots of AI Applications Require High Reliability and That Will Take Longer to Acheive
AI Key Takeaways
- Driverless cars need to be far safer than human drivers to be accepted on the road
- People are less tolerant of driverless cars getting into crashes than they are of human drivers getting into crashes
- Driverless cars need to be 99.9999% reliable to take over the roads
- This high level of reliability is currently not achievable with existing models
- Similar safety concerns apply to other domains, such as healthcare
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Why A.I. Might Not Take Your Job or Supercharge the Economy
The Alignment Problem Between Society and Institutions
AI Key Takeaways
- There will be a competitive pressure for institutions, companies, and countries that implement AI to prosper.
- These entities will gain more power and market power, but will have less and less understanding and oversight over the AI systems.
- This could lead to the development of selfish systems.
- The main issue at hand is the alignment problem, not just between humans and AI, but between human society and various institutions, such as corporations and governments.
- There needs to be more initial effort put towards solving the alignment problem.
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My View on A.I.
COVID and AI Followed Exponential Timelines and It’s Hard for Policy to Keep Up
AI Key Takeaways
- Exponential time creates a difficult task of speeding policy and social change to match the rate with COVID a viral replication.
- The political and social damage we still carry from the pandemic reflects the impossible acceleration we had to make.
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A.I. Vibe Check With Ezra Klein + Kevin Tries Phone Positivity
AI Safety and Ethics Ignore that Alignment is a Human Problem
AI Key Takeaways
- AI companies should not be allowed to make money by manipulating human behavi.
- The safety community should be more attentive to capitalism and the business models that AI companies are allowed to have.
- The safety community should also be more attentive to the alignment problem between human beings and corporations, between human beings and governments, and between governments and governments.
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Why Spotify wants to look like TikTok, with co-president Gustav Söderström
Spotify is Optimized for Long-Term Retention Over Immediate Click-Through
AI Key Takeaways
- The incentives for premium users in the feedie will be different than for free users.
- The main goal for the feedie is to create longerterm engagement and retention instead of momentary clicks.
- The feedie is optimized for impressions and how much the user listens down the line, not just clicks.
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How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat
Reddit’s Decentralized Model Keeps Conversations Safe and High Quality
AI Key Takeaways
- Reddit is a community of communities that establishes its own norms and values.
- The decentralized model is safer and scales better.
- The quality of the conversations and the content is more authentic and at a high level.
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Freaked Out? We Really Can Prepare for A.I.
Humans Won’t Not Develop Dangerous Technologies
AI Key Takeaways
- It is important to have a structural level approach to preventing dangerous technologies from being developed, as opposed to relying on people's individual moral convictions.
- It is important to have governance and regulatory mechanisms in place to prevent technologies from being developed in a reckless manner.
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Freaked Out? We Really Can Prepare for A.I.
Does AI Have Goals? How did Humans Develop Goals?
AI Key Takeaways
- Large language models are just selecting repeatedly on like token prediction and reinforcement, and does not have goals.
- Some people argue that large language models clearly have goals because how else would they be able to achieve them.
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A Trip to TikTok + ChatGPT’s Origin Story + Kevin Systrom’s Comeback
News (Artifact) is Just the Beginning of ML Applications
AI Key Takeaways
- The main goal of the company is to figure out how to apply machine learning to other areas.
- The main focus of the company is not to be a news company forever.
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