I educate people on how to use AI agents to automate knowledge work. I do this principally on YouTube (~350,000 followers) and Instagram (~500,000 followers), and my company, LeftClick, has helped automate processes at multibillion dollar portfolio companies.
Though I’ve always been concerned with mitigating AI x-risk, seeing agents deployed at scale has redoubled this. I am interested in meaningfully facilitating or assisting others to that end, whether through comms/DevRel/amplifying impactful messages on my channel.
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Putting yourself in “the same class as the largest possible number of people” probably means you’d be putting yourself into a group with a bunch of poor security practices, no? Consider the median technology user (and median worker, median voter, etc).
Re: institutional recourse, major security breaches already occur often these days—see Equifax breach—and payouts/settlements are often small. I think in the case of the Equifax breach specifically, something like 150M people were affected and the payout was just ~$400M, or around $3 per user.
Even at three orders of magnitude, or $3000 payout per person affected, the tradeoff appears suboptimal. Better to apply stringent security practices now imo, like Yubikeys etc.
Case in point: your Crystal trilogy was the major reasons I became concerned about AI safety.
It was also a great read, to be clear, but it helped me wrap my mind around a few important concepts (mainly:
quantitativevsqualitativeintelligence) which directly led to exploring Nick Bostrom’s work.I don’t have much else to add aside from excitement at the prospect of reading a new book of yours. Keep them coming.
A metric I think would be interesting that you could feasibly come up with, based on extrapolating the number embryos per IVF round & the total cost per number of day 5 embryos, is the “cost per probable IQ point added”.
As someone in a reasonably financially comfortable position who is nearing the stage of life where one typically becomes a parent, it would be a no-brainer to add, say, ~10 IQ points for $100,000 or similar.
There’s obviously a plethora of positive life outcomes associated with that, but (perhaps more selfishly) even a slightly higher IQ is associated with fewer externalizing problems in children, like tantrums, conduct disorder, delinquency, etc.
I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts.