Gabriel Alfour

> How the flagship project of the AI Safety Community ended up helping AI Corporations. I care about preventing extinction risks from superintelligence. This de facto makes me part of the “AI Safety” community, a social cluster of people who care about these risks. In the community, a few organisations...

Hello, fellow knowledge enthusiast. Knowing things is hard, sharing our knowledge accurately is even harder, and it is all too easy to claim more knowledge than we have. Many, when confronted with this, fall back to Epistemic Humility. They err towards being under-confident. This is bad. I'll explain why here,...

I’m the originator behind ControlAI’s Direct Institutional Plan (the DIP), built to address extinction risks from superintelligence. My diagnosis is simple: most laypeople and policy makers have not heard of AGI, ASI, extinction risks, or what it takes to prevent the development of ASI. Instead, most AI Policy Organisations and...

We constantly change, as time passes and we experience the world. We learn and we forget. We get addicted and traumatised. We build habits and lose them. We discover new facets of reality, and start ignoring them. Our personality changes. We change. The question of how people change is complex....

I believe that many have reached Terminal Cynicism. Terminal Cynicism is a level of cynicism that leads one to perceive everything negatively, even obviously good things. It is cynicism so extreme that it renders one incapable of productive thought or action. The most common instance is people refusing to engage...

Disclaimer: this is published without any post-processing or editing for typos after the dialogue took place. Gabriel Alfour Let's split the conversation in three parts (with no time commitment for each): 1) Exposing our Theses We start with a brief overview of our theses, just for some high-level context. 2)...

A large number of nice smart people do not have a good understanding of enmity. Almost on principle, they refuse to perceive people and movements as an enemy.[1] They feel bad about the mere idea of perceiving a group as an enemy. And as a result, they consistently get screwed...