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Association taxes are collusion subsidies

Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. Under present norms, if Alice associates with Bob, and Bob is considered objectionable in some way, Alice can be blamed for her association, even if there is no sign she was complicit in Bob’s sin. An interesting upshot is that as soon as you become visibly involved with someone, you are slightly invested in their social standing—when their social stock…

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Association taxes are collusion subsidies

Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. Under present norms, if Alice associates with Bob, and Bob is considered objectionable in some way, Alice can be blamed for her association, even if there is no sign she was complicit in Bob’s sin. An interesting upshot is that as soon as you become visibly involved with someone, you are slightly invested in their social standing—when their social stock…

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Winning the power to lose

Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.

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Mental software updates

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Secondary forces of debt

Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. A general thing I hadn’t noticed about debts until lately: Whenever Bob owes Alice, then Alice has reason to look after Bob, to the extent that increases the chance he satisfies the debt. Yet at the same time, Bob has an incentive for Alice to disappear, insofar as it would relieve him. These might be tiny incentives, and not overwhelm for instance…

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Podcasts: AGI Show, Consistently Candid, London Futurists

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What if a tech company forced you to move to NYC?

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Podcast: Center for AI Policy, on AI risk and listening to AI researchers

Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. I was on the Center for AI Policy Podcast. We talked about topics around the Expert Survey on Progress in AI, including why I think AI is an existential risk, and how much to listen to AI researchers on the subject. Full transcript at the link.

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Podcast: Eye4AI on 2023 Survey

Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.

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An explanation of evil in an organized world

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The first future and the best future

Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. It seems to me worth trying to slow down AI development to steer successfully around the shoals of extinction and out to utopia. But I was thinking lately: even if I didn’t think there was any chance of extinction risk, it might still be worth prioritizing a lot of care over moving at maximal speed. Because there are many different possible AI futures,…

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Experiment on repeating choices

Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.

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Mid-conditional love

Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet. People talk about unconditional love and conditional love. Maybe I’m out of the loop regarding the great loves going on around me, but my guess is that love is extremely rarely unconditional. Or at least if it is, then it is either very broadly applied or somewhat confused or strange: if you love me unconditionally, presumably you love everything else as…

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Partial value takeover without world takeover

Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.

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New social credit formalizations

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Movie posters

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Are we so good to simulate?

Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.