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Why AI X-Risk Gets Overestimated

Most AI X-Riskers have only ever encountered strawman skeptics

May 16 •

April 2023

How AI Could Take Over the World

and bring an end to human civilization

Apr 17 •

AGI is a Red Herring

When it comes to the threats from AI, there isn't some magic threshold where it suddenly becomes dangerous

Apr 7 •

February 2023

Against Forecasting Tournaments

Why tournaments often encourage biased forecasting

Feb 6 •

January 2023

Judicious Prospecting

Finding opportunities worth pursuing

Jan 24 •

December 2021

Abstraction will mostly be about forecasting and predictions, information processing platforms like prediction markets, AI safety and x-risk, and other…

Dec 24, 2021 •

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