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“I Got 95 Theses But a Glitch Ain’t One” by Zvi


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Or rather Samuel Hammond does. Tyler Cowen finds it interesting but not his view.

I put up a market, and then started looking. Click through to his post for the theses. I will be quoting a few of them in full, but not most of them.

I am not trying to be exact with these probabilities when the question calls for them, nor am I being super careful to make them consistent, so errors and adjustments are inevitable.

Section 1 is Oversight of AGI labs is prudent.

I do tend to say that.

  1. There are few things more important to U.S. national interest than close monitoring of frontier model capabilities, and also the ability to intervene.
  2. Indeed, I believe one should be at best skeptical or ambivalent about most potential forms of regulation of anything, AI included. Yet I think the case [...]
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    Outline:

    (00:37) Section 1 is Oversight of AGI labs is prudent.

    (03:41) Section 2 is Most proposed ‘AI regulations’ are ill-conceived or premature.

    (06:43) Section 3 claims AI progress is accelerating, not plateauing.

    (09:25) Section 4 says open source is mostly a red herring.

    (13:20) Section 5 claims accelerate versus decelerate is a false dichotomy.

    (17:11) Section 6 is The AI wave is inevitable, superintelligence isn’t.

    (18:50) Section 7 says technological transitions cause regime changes.

    (20:44) Section 8 says institutional regime changes are packaged deals.

    (24:16) Section 9 says dismissing AGI risks as ‘sci-fi’ is a failure of imagination.

    (27:13) Finally, Section 10 says biology is an information technology.

    (28:29) Tallying Up the Points

    (28:52) Conclusion

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    First published:

    May 9th, 2024

    Source:

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2BvfGnZMx4Ei82qkk/i-got-95-theses-but-a-glitch-ain-t-one

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