If Eliezer every writes a memoir, it should be structured as a time loop novel.
Loop 1: e/acc Eliezer races to defeat death by forming a coalition to build AI as fast as possible. AI kills everyone. Somehow (mumble mumble acausal trade simulation mumble) he finds himself in back at the start with another chance.
Loop 2: Eliezer realizes he needs to solve alignment first, spends a loop working on this, then someone else builds AI and everyone dies.
Loop 3: Eliezer loses hope, decides to just write fanfics. Accidentally realizes that if you structure a textbook as fanfic people will actually read it. Eventually everyone dies.
Loop 4: Our timeline, Eliezer realizes something about the time loop is destabilizing the timeline. Russia is aggressively starting fights with Ukraine and the EU, risking nuclear war, China is threatening its neighbors, etc. Realizing this could be the final loop before things truly go crazy, he goes all out… Readers, vote for your ending: (1) Convince governments to ban AI, (2) Convince AI companies not to build AI, (3) Make AI solve the alignment problem, (4) YOLO, maybe it’ll just work out this time.
Side plot: Bringing famous social network influencer Elon Musk into the time loop so he can draw attention to the problem, which unfortunately backfires.
The time loop intersects the Madoka Magica one along an ill-specified hypersurface. In some iterations, Eliezer fights Homura over the future of the lightcone. In others, Eliezer dates Homura. In still others, one of the two does not exist, and the other has to create them (often by summoning them using the Astral Codex Kabbalah). In yet others, Eliezer does a fusion dance with Homura … and in most of those the resulting fusion immediately collapses into the Witch Durandal and everyone dies.
If Eliezer every writes a memoir, it should be structured as a time loop novel.
Loop 1: e/acc Eliezer races to defeat death by forming a coalition to build AI as fast as possible. AI kills everyone. Somehow (mumble mumble acausal trade simulation mumble) he finds himself in back at the start with another chance.
Loop 2: Eliezer realizes he needs to solve alignment first, spends a loop working on this, then someone else builds AI and everyone dies.
Loop 3: Eliezer loses hope, decides to just write fanfics. Accidentally realizes that if you structure a textbook as fanfic people will actually read it. Eventually everyone dies.
Loop 4: Our timeline, Eliezer realizes something about the time loop is destabilizing the timeline. Russia is aggressively starting fights with Ukraine and the EU, risking nuclear war, China is threatening its neighbors, etc. Realizing this could be the final loop before things truly go crazy, he goes all out… Readers, vote for your ending: (1) Convince governments to ban AI, (2) Convince AI companies not to build AI, (3) Make AI solve the alignment problem, (4) YOLO, maybe it’ll just work out this time.
Side plot: Bringing famous social network influencer Elon Musk into the time loop so he can draw attention to the problem, which unfortunately backfires.
The time loop intersects the Madoka Magica one along an ill-specified hypersurface. In some iterations, Eliezer fights Homura over the future of the lightcone. In others, Eliezer dates Homura. In still others, one of the two does not exist, and the other has to create them (often by summoning them using the Astral Codex Kabbalah). In yet others, Eliezer does a fusion dance with Homura … and in most of those the resulting fusion immediately collapses into the Witch Durandal and everyone dies.