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Against a General Factor of Doom

If you ask people a bunch of specific doomy questions, and their answers are suspiciously correlated, they might be expressing their p(Doom) for each question instead of answering the questions individually. Using a general factor of doom is unlikely to be an accurate depiction of reality. The future is likely to be surprisingly doomy in some ways and surprisingly tractable in others.

Counterarguments to the basic AI x-risk case

Sixteen weaknesses in the classic argument for AI risk.

Will Superhuman AI be created?

Superhuman AI appears to be very likely to be created at some point.

Why work at AI Impacts?

Katja Grace Mar 2022

My grounds for spending my time on this: a hand-wavy account.

AI Impacts Internship, Summer 2022

Overview Location: Berkeley/San Francisco (may consider a remote option) Duration: 10-14 weeks, most likely starting mid-June Compensation: Full-time pay (minimum $35/hr), plus cost of travel. May include assistance with housing Application deadline: March 15, 2022

What do coherence arguments imply about the behavior of advanced AI?

There is probably a pressure to become more coherent, if you have preferences, and thus to become more goal-directed.

AI Impacts 2020 review

This is a list of work done at AI Impacts published in 2020.

Automated intelligence is not AI

Katja Grace Nov 2020

Sometimes we think of ‘artificial intelligence’ as whatever technology ultimately automates human cognitive labor…

Historic trends in flight airspeed records

Flight airspeed records between 1903 and 1976 contained one greater than 10-year discontinuity: a 19-year discontinuity corresponding to the Fairey Delta 2 flight in 1956. The average annual growth in flight airspeed markedly increased with

Primates vs birds: Is one brain architecture better than the other?

By Tegan McCaslin, 28 February 2019 The boring answer to that question is, “Yes, birds.” But that’s only because birds can pack more neurons into a walnut-sized brain than a monkey with a brain four