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In civics class at the microschool I recently ran a game where I taught a lesson to half the kids and then they had to teach a lesson to the other half, with prizes based on the second batch of kids' mastery. It was a followup to a couple months of lessons we'd done about the

Hastings seems like a fine choice as a standard tech company board member, but shouldn't the LTBT be appointing folks who aren't standard? Wouldn't you expect their appointments to be experts in AI safety or public policy or something like that?

If you’re interested in superbabies, you should come to this. We’re aiming to make this the first of an annual series of conferences about germline genetic engineering, embryo selection, production of gametes from stem cells and much more.

Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ Anthropic im working on a benchmark for this and openai's models push back against user delusion ~30% less than anthropics. but, there's an alarming trend where the oldest claude sonnet will refuse to reify delusion 90% of the time, and each model release since has it going down about 5%.

can somebody remind me again why we made a conscious decision to remove color from the world?

Guys I don't feel so good about this

We’re in the last few months of easy discernment between real and AI footage. After that, we can rely only on our priors and evaluation of source through robust epistemological enquiry. Luckily humans are really good at that.

endorsed (the whole thing, but especially this point)

I think we should be allowed to think big weird ambitious thoughts about the future, with the understanding that doing that will literally always be easily contorted by crazy people to post hoc fit whatever they’re on about

People speak of the "AI hype bubble", but there is also a large & growing "AI cope bubble" that will at some point pop & leave much devastation in its wake. Example:

Anyone attacking something as eugenics should have to answer two basic questions: 1) What do you mean by eugenics? 2) Why do you think that's bad? It's amazing how many of these critiques fall apart under the most basic scrutiny.