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For those who are trying to bring about a glorious transhuman utopia with the help of hopefully-aligned ASI, I think it's worth thinking explicitly about what utopia might actually look like and where it's likely to fall short.
To that end, some have helpfully written depictions of utopian (or utopia-adjacent) worlds:
When people ask what Fundamental Uncertainty is about, I usually say it’s a book about epistemology. If they want to know more, I say it’s a book arguing that truth is grounded not in observation or more truth, but in usefulness, and because what’s useful depends on what we ...
This is a linkpost of a recording of a recent MATS research talk where I argue that the automation of AI research — which OpenAI and Anthropic say is imminent — could lead to an unrecoverable alignment failure. Three properties make it especially dangerous: oversight breaks down at scale, capabilities self-amplify, and capabilities will be sped up asymmetrically faster than a...