Special thanks to Justis Mills for pointing out important caveats.

NicholasKross

So broadly, we wanted to discuss alignment community uplift, including: intelligence enhancement, megaprojects, and more!

Notably, different ways of augmenting the AI safety community can feed off each other. Intelligence enhancement can improve megaprojects, megaprojects can be points for coordination, both of these can make the whole community more adaptable, and so on.

(Note for readers: This dialogue is less an "argument", and more "getting our concepts and cruxes on the table". So it won't have much of the debate-style back-and-forth that you usually see in Dialogues.)

I think we're starting with intelligence enhancement, correct?

Intelligence Enhancement

trevor

Yes, you recently did a post about that to aggregate people's findings.

Recently, Genesmith and kman's post opening the overton window on adult human gene editing and Richard Ngo's post on Moloch being as much about inadequate technology/undersandings as coordination failures, I [...]

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Outline:

(00:55) Intelligence Enhancement

(23:27) Megaprojects

(29:27) dath ilan

(42:53) Adaptability

(48:49) Extracting much more value from the Sequences

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First published:
December 16th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2uxaqQb9wttgiByJ4/upgrading-the-ai-safety-community

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Upgrading the AI Safety Community” by trevor, NicholasKross

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