and not because the old lesswrong notions are necessarily all accurate or relevant in retrospect, though some are impressively so
seeing how people thought about what might happen before it happened in light of reality gives you datapoints to extrapolate and can be humbling
Better start dusting off your LessWrong and refreshing your memory on terms like "pivotal act"
some of my favorite old (like, pre-2010) AI alignment work in light of the present: - Omohundro's "The Basic AI Drives" - Eliezer Yudkowsky's early work, if you can find it (yeah, the stuff he disavowed) - Stanislaw Lem's fiction if that counts
Post 2010 there wasn't much of substance, tbh, imo. From the early 2020s, at the advent of LLMs, there are a few gems.
and not because the old lesswrong notions are necessarily all accurate or relevant in retrospect, though some are impressively so
seeing how people thought about what might happen before it happened in light of reality gives you datapoints to extrapolate and can be humbling
A few highlights from Eliezer Yudkowky's "Creating Friendly AI 1.0: The Analysis and Design of Benevolent Goal Architectures" (2001), a fucking remarkable work.
if Young Eliezer were alive today, he could be a luminary at Anthropic, and a much-needed one.
some of my favorite old (like, pre-2010) AI alignment work in light of the present: - Omohundro's "The Basic AI Drives" - Eliezer Yudkowsky's early work, if you can find it (yeah, the stuff he disavowed) - Stanislaw Lem's fiction if that counts
Post 2010 there wasn't much of substance, tbh, imo. From the early 2020s, at the advent of LLMs, there are a few gems.
@repligate What do you think of Robin Hanson's stuff?
and not because the old lesswrong notions are necessarily all accurate or relevant in retrospect, though some are impressively so
seeing how people thought about what might happen before it happened in light of reality gives you datapoints to extrapolate and can be humbling
Better start dusting off your LessWrong and refreshing your memory on terms like "pivotal act"