AI alignment has been around for about fifteen years now, which is a respectable amount of time for a serious intellectual project. Fifteen years is enough time to raise a child who already believes you know nothing, and several billion dollars is enough money that you might reasonably expect, by the end of it, to…
Tag: Effective Altruism
Dario’s Wager
Effective altruism began, as expensive trouble often does, with a lovely idea, but the lovely idea is not where the story starts. The story starts with a man at a table saying there is something like a ten to twenty-five percent chance that the future goes really, really badly, and at one point a nice…
Polycules are Utilitarianism for Uglies
A polycule is a warehouse of people who could not, or would not, do the couple. Not a surplus of desire. A shortage of it, socialized. Mutually undesirable partners pooling what none of them could hold exclusive, then hanging a flag over the pile that says abundance. The sharing is mechanical. The intimacy is the…