Tarnish

Tar­nish’s Shortform

• Tarnish 17 Oct 2024 11:29 UTC

  1 point

  0

  on: Is there a known method to find oth­ers who came across the same po­ten­tial in­fo­haz­ard with­out spoiling it to the pub­lic?

  As far as I know, there is unfortunately no system for this. I think what people typically do is contact MIRI leadership, but I don’t know MIRI leadership to have particularly put silent people in touch with other silent people as a result.

• Tarnish 12 Oct 2024 12:36 UTC

  2 points

  −6

  on: Most ar­gu­ments for AI Doom are ei­ther bad or weak

  Note that some of the best arguments are of the shape “AI will cause doom because it’s not that hard to build the following...” followed by insights about how to build an AI that causes doom. Those arguments are best rederived privately rather than shared publicly, and by asking publicly you’re filtering the strength of arguments you might get exposed to.

• Tarnish 10 Aug 2024 4:44 UTC

  17 points

  16

  on: Prov­ably Safe AI: Wor­ld­view and Projects

  Unfortunately, that does not appear to be a stable solution. Even if the US paused its AI development, China or other countries could gain an advantage by accelerating their own work.

  Arguing-for-pausing does not need to be a stable solution to help. If it buys time, that’s already helpful. If the US pauses AI development, but China doesn’t, that’s still less many people working on AI that might kill everyone.