Igor Ivanov

• Igor Ivanov 27 Sep 2023 13:23 UTC

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  on: How have you be­come more hard-work­ing?

  For me it was a medication for my bipolar disorder quetiapine

Let’s talk about Im­pos­tor syn­drome in AI safety

• Igor Ivanov 5 Sep 2023 15:08 UTC

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  in reply to: arisAlexis’s comment on: Im­pend­ing AGI doesn’t make ev­ery­thing else unim­por­tant.

  Thanks. I got a bit clickbaity in the title.

• Igor Ivanov 5 Sep 2023 15:07 UTC

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  in reply to: Oleander’s comment on: Im­pend­ing AGI doesn’t make ev­ery­thing else unim­por­tant.

  Thanks for sharing your experience. I wish you to stay strong

• Igor Ivanov 5 Sep 2023 0:45 UTC

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  in reply to: RedMan’s comment on: Im­pend­ing AGI doesn’t make ev­ery­thing else unim­por­tant.

  The meaninglessness comes from the idea akin to to “why bother with anything if AGI will destroy everything it”
  
  Read Feynman’s citation from the beginning. It describes his feelings about atom bomb that are relevant for some people’s thoughts about AGI.

• Igor Ivanov 4 Sep 2023 23:09 UTC

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  in reply to: DivineMango’s comment on: Men­tal Health and the Align­ment Prob­lem: A Com­pila­tion of Re­sources (up­dated April 2023)

  Thanks

Im­pend­ing AGI doesn’t make ev­ery­thing else unim­por­tant.

• Igor Ivanov 20 Aug 2023 15:42 UTC

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  in reply to: Feel_Love’s comment on: 6 non-ob­vi­ous men­tal health is­sues spe­cific to AI safety

  Your comment is somewhat along the lines of the stoic philosophy.

• Igor Ivanov 19 Aug 2023 21:13 UTC

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  on: Men­tal Health and the Align­ment Prob­lem: A Com­pila­tion of Re­sources (up­dated April 2023)

  Hi
  
  In this post you asked to leave the names of therapists familiar with alignment.
  
  I am such a therapist. I live in the UK. That’s my website.
  
  I recently wrote a post about my experience as a therapist with clients working on AI safety. It might serve as indirect proof that I really have such clients.

• Igor Ivanov 19 Aug 2023 17:39 UTC

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  in reply to: TeaTieAndHat’s comment on: 6 non-ob­vi­ous men­tal health is­sues spe­cific to AI safety

  This is tricky. May it exacerbate your problems?
  
  Anyway. If there’s a chance I can helpful for you, let me know.

• Igor Ivanov 19 Aug 2023 16:19 UTC

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  in reply to: TeaTieAndHat’s comment on: 6 non-ob­vi­ous men­tal health is­sues spe­cific to AI safety

  These problems are not unique to AI safety, but they are present way more often with my clients working on AI safety, than with my other clients.

• Igor Ivanov 18 Aug 2023 22:47 UTC

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  in reply to: Neil ’s comment on: 6 non-ob­vi­ous men­tal health is­sues spe­cific to AI safety

  Thanks. I am not a native English speaker, and I use GPT-4 to help me catch mistakes, but it seems like it’s not perfect :)

• Igor Ivanov 18 Aug 2023 21:43 UTC

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  in reply to: knowsnothing’s comment on: 6 non-ob­vi­ous men­tal health is­sues spe­cific to AI safety

  Thanks for sharing your experience. My experience is that talking with non-AI safety people is similar to talks about global warming. If someone tells me about that, I say that this is an important issue, but I honestly don’t invest that much effort to fight against it.
  
  This is my experience, and yours might be different.

6 non-ob­vi­ous men­tal health is­sues spe­cific to AI safety

What is ev­ery­one do­ing in AI governance

A cou­ple of ques­tions about Con­jec­ture’s Cog­ni­tive Emu­la­tion proposal

• Igor Ivanov 7 Apr 2023 17:34 UTC

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  in reply to: Seth Herd’s comment on: AI scares and chang­ing pub­lic beliefs

  I totally agree that it might be good to have such a fire alarm as soon as possible, and looking at how fast people make GPT-4 more and more powerful makes me think that this is only a matter of time.

• Igor Ivanov 7 Apr 2023 16:48 UTC

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  on: AI scares and chang­ing pub­lic beliefs

  I believe we need a fire alarm.
  
  People were scared of nuclear weapons since 1945, but no one restricted the arms race until The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961.
  
  We know for sure that the crisis really scared both Soviet and US high commands, and the first document to restrict nukes was signed the next year, 1962.
  
  What kind of fire alarm it might be? That is The Question.

• Igor Ivanov 7 Apr 2023 16:23 UTC

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  on: AI scares and chang­ing pub­lic beliefs

  I think an important thing to get people convinced of the importance of AI safety is to find proper “Gateway drug” ideas that already bother that person, so they are likely to accept this idea, and through it get interested in AI safety.
  
  For example, if a person is concerned about the rights of minorities, you might tell them about how we don’t know how LLMs work, and this causes bias and discrimination, or how it will increase inequality.
  
  If a person cares about privacy and is afraid of government surveillance, then you might tell them about how AI might make all these problems much worse.

• Igor Ivanov 2 Apr 2023 18:41 UTC

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  in reply to: Nathan Helm-Burger’s comment on: Cog­ni­tive Emu­la­tion: A Naive AI Safety Proposal

  Eh. It’s sad if this problem is really so complex.
  
  Thank you. At this point, I feel like I have to stick to some way to align AGI, even if it has not that big chance to succeed, because it looks like there are not that many options.