Links for 2022-08-27
“As the field of machine learning advances, the alignment problem is becoming increasingly concrete. In a new report, I present the key high-level arguments for expecting AGI to be misaligned, grounded in technical details of deep learning.” https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TsB7WmTG2UzBtOs349lBqY5dEBaxZTzG/view?usp=sharing
“We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting: We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks seriously.” [The New York Times] https://archive.ph/CbYzu
Highly-Efficient New Neuromorphic Chip for AI on the Edge https://scitechdaily.com/highly-efficient-new-neuromorphic-chip-for-ai-on-the-edge/
What’s a Fair Price? Or: You’re Not Underpaid! — “What if you worked super-hard, sweating all day every day for a year, and all you produced was a single, ugly sock? No one is morally obligated to now give you $100,000 for that sock.” https://fakenous.substack.com/p/whats-a-fair-price-or-youre-not-underpaid
"Most of us agree that (1) world peace is better than (2) the death of 99% of the world’s population, which is better in turn than (3) human extinction. … many would see a greater gap between (1) & (2) than between (2) & (3), [but longtermists disagree]" https://bostonreview.net/articles/the-new-moral-mathematics/
Book Review: What We Owe The Future https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-what-we-owe-the-future
"The money is better: Substack only retains 10% of subscription revenues. Authors keep 90% (minus some tiny transaction fees). That’s almost the exact opposite of a traditional publishing deal." https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/10-reasons-why-im-publishing-my-next
A crazy story about UFO threats increasing exponentially. But there is one interpretation under which it possibly makes a tiny bit of sense: the most likely time for aliens to stop hiding is shortly before a technological singularity. Because an artificial superintelligence might be able to infer their presence and necessitate deep crustal sterilization of the planet in order to contain all microscopic seeds it might try to hide. https://www.vice.com/en/article/3adadb/congress-admits-ufos-not-man-made-says-threats-increasing-exponentially