Superintelligence Risk Project: Conclusion
I spent most of July working on a project to evaluate risk from AI that is smarter than humans. I posted updates as I went [1] but intended to write up a summary with conclusions when I finished....
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When I work I keep two kinds of notes: Short summary notes aimed at people who are interested in what I'm doing (boss, coworkers, me way in the future trying to figure out what I was working on then)...
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A week from Monday I'm starting back at Google. [1] I'm pretty excited about it, both the company and the team I'll be on. When I left Google for Wave I wrote: This does mean taking a pay cut: I'll be...
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Events that happen on a regular schedule lower the energy it takes to be social. Things like church every Sunday, a dance that's every 1st Saturday, or a dinner with friends on 2nd and 4th Wednesdays....
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Lets say I start a new currency, the Credit, to compete with the Dollar. The traditional way to do this would be for me to offer to convert between Dollars and Credits, but let's say instead I give...
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