Matthew Barnett

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Someone who is interested in learning and doing good.

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewJBar

My Substack: https://matthewbarnett.substack.com/

Against most, but not all, AI risk analogies

Matthew Barnett14 Jan 2024 3:36 UTC

62 points

40 comments7 min readLW link

My thoughts on the social response to AI risk

Matthew Barnett1 Nov 2023 21:17 UTC

157 points

36 comments10 min readLW link

Announcing Epoch’s newly expanded Parameters, Compute and Data Trends in Machine Learning database

Robi Rahman, Jaime Sevilla Molina, Tamay, Ege Erdil, Pablo Villalobos, Ben Cottier and Matthew Barnett

25 Oct 2023 2:55 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(epochai.org)

Evaluating the historical value misspecification argument

Matthew Barnett5 Oct 2023 18:34 UTC

162 points

140 comments7 min readLW link

Updating Drexler’s CAIS model

Matthew Barnett16 Jun 2023 22:53 UTC

46 points

32 comments4 min readLW link

Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? [linkpost]

Matthew Barnett2 May 2023 21:01 UTC

52 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Shutting down AI is not enough. We need to destroy all technology.

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2023 21:03 UTC

150 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

Conceding a short timelines bet early

Matthew Barnett16 Mar 2023 21:49 UTC

132 points

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A proposed method for forecasting transformative AI

Matthew Barnett10 Feb 2023 19:34 UTC

121 points

21 comments10 min readLW link

Noting an error in Inadequate Equilibria

Matthew Barnett8 Feb 2023 1:33 UTC

359 points

56 comments2 min readLW link

Slightly against aligning with neo-luddites

Matthew Barnett26 Dec 2022 22:46 UTC

104 points

31 comments4 min readLW link

Updating my AI timelines

Matthew Barnett5 Dec 2022 20:46 UTC

143 points

50 comments2 min readLW link

Could a single alien message destroy us?

Writer and Matthew Barnett

25 Nov 2022 7:32 UTC

59 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

A conversation about Katja’s counterarguments to AI risk

Matthew Barnett and Ege Erdil

18 Oct 2022 18:40 UTC

43 points

9 comments33 min readLW link

The Most Important Century: The Animation

Writer and Matthew Barnett

24 Jul 2022 20:58 UTC

46 points

2 comments20 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

A concrete bet offer to those with short AGI timelines

Matthew Barnett and Tamay

9 Apr 2022 21:41 UTC

198 points

116 comments5 min readLW link

Google’s new 540 billion parameter language model

Matthew Barnett4 Apr 2022 17:49 UTC

108 points

81 comments1 min readLW link

(storage.googleapis.com)

Using prediction markets to generate LessWrong posts

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2022 16:33 UTC

85 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

My current thoughts on the risks from SETI

Matthew Barnett15 Mar 2022 17:18 UTC

128 points

27 comments10 min readLW link

A comment on Ajeya Cotra’s draft report on AI timelines

Matthew Barnett24 Feb 2022 0:41 UTC

74 points

13 comments7 min readLW link