This work has been done in the context of SaferAI’s work on risk assessment. Equal contribution by Eli and Joel. I'm sharing this writeup in the form of a Google Doc and reproducing the summary below. Disclaimer: this writeup is context for upcoming experiments, not complete work. As such it...
Summary From the piece: > Earlier this year I decided to take a few weeks to figure out what I think about the existential risk from Artificial Superintelligence (ASI xrisk). It turned out to be much more difficult than I thought. After several months of reading, thinking, and talking with...
TL;DR We want to hear ideas for physical engineering projects - that is, hardware prototypes moving around atoms (not just bits) - from the EA and/or longtermist community. Submit here! Introducing Reslab There has been a lot of talk about EA needing to take more large-scale action recently (e.g. Longtermist...