Conversation with Dario Amodei
Earlier this week I talked to Dario Amodei, a research scientist at OpenAI and one of the authors of Concrete Problems in AI Safety ( pdf). I wanted to talk to him as part of my superintelligence risk...
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I've decided to make a larger project out of looking into AI risk. I don't think we really know why there's such a disconnect between people who think we should strongly prioritize it and the...
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In considering what to work on, I wrote that recently many people I respect have started to think that AI risk is the most valuable place to focus EA efforts. For example, 80000 Hours ranks it first...
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Triple Play Recorder
If you want to play recorder but have fewer than eight fingers the current options are all very expensive. This is a problem in elementary schools that use the recorder as a very cheap instrument that...
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June 2017 Time Tracking
Every so often Julia and I like to track how we spend our time, trying to keep things fair. (2015, 2011) Here's the most recent round, which corresponds to the week from 2017-06-14 to 2017-06-20:...
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