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The Spectre haunting the "AI Safety" Community — LessWrong
I’m the originator behind ControlAI’s Direct Institutional Plan (the DIP), built to address extinction risks from superintelligence. My diagnosis is simple: most laypeople and policy makers have not heard of AGI, ASI, extinction risks, or what it takes to prevent the development of ASI. Instead, most AI Policy Organisations and Think Tanks act as if “Persuasion” was the bottleneck. This is why they care so much about respectability, the Overton Window, and other similar social considerations.
7 Vicious Vices of Rationalists — LessWrong
Vices aren't behaviors that one should never do. Rather, vices are behaviors that are fine and pleasurable to do in moderation, but tempting to do in excess. The classical vices are actually good in part. Moderate amounts of gluttony is just eating food, which is important. Moderate amounts of envy is just "wanting things", which is a motivator of much of our economy. What are some things that rationalists are wont to do, and often to good effect, but that can grow pathological? 1.
Is 90% of code at Anthropic being written by AIs? — LessWrong
In March 2025, Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthropic) said that he expects AI to be writing 90% of the code in 3 to 6 months and that AI might be writing essentially all of the code in 12 months. Did this prediction end up being true? We'll charitably interpret the prediction as being about Anthropic itself. Recently, various articles have claimed that Dario said that AIs are writing 90% of the code at Anthropic (7 months after the prediction of 3-6 months was made).
Interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky on Rationality and Systematic Misunderstanding of AI Alignment — LessWrong
My interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky for If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies launch week is out! 00:00:00 — Eliezer Yudkowsky Intro 00:01:25 — Recent validation of Eliezer's ideas 00:03:46 — Sh*t now getting real 00:08:47 — Eliezer’s rationality teachings 00:10:39 — Rationality Lesson 1: I am a brain 00:13:10 — Rationality Lesson 2: Philosophy can reduce to AI engineering 00:17:19 — Rationality Lesson 3: What is evidence?
Programming Language Early Funding? — LessWrong
We are in the dark age of computer programming. I believe that we still fundamentally haven’t found good ways to deal with the challenges of writing computer programs. Programming languages are the foundation of our programming and leave a lot to be desired. I believe more is possible. I’ve worked on creating a new programming language (I’m on my second). Given time and resources, I could take a solid step in the right direction with a new programming language.
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