USA itself is responsible for mass murder, by bombing, in Japan, Germany, North Korea, North Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. US-backed regimes are implicated in mass murder in Indonesia, East Pakistan, Somalia, and Guatemala. USA also backed Pol Pot, the Cambodian genocidal dictator, during and after his ouster by the Vietnamese army. And we must not forget that USA backed military juntas in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay. These governments also killed thousands of opponents.
Teerth Aloke
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Timeline of AI Alignment meetings
Some people in this community are thinking out of the box. I fully support this, all options must be on the table.
Too much self praise.
Fine-tuning argument does not work for another reason : we simply don’t know the number of universes and the mechanism that chooses the constants.
What? When? Where?
What is your assessment of reports of Russian atrocities against Ukrainian civilians? (I have come to doubt a lot of what I hear in the news)
Realistically, giving is insufficient for even a modest redistribution of wealth. Government intervention is and has been far more effective in this aspect.
Ethnic violence is rarely one sided.
I will just like to note one detail, while parallel first cousin marriage is ‘prohibited’ in South India, nearly a tenth of cousin marriages are of this category.
The vast majority of chicken would not have existed but for the meat industry. Would you accept that argument?
How serious do you think vaccine effectiveness drops due to variants can become?
I was just pointing out that 100 million killed by Communism is a dubious conclusion, arrived by large overestimates made in ignorance. Such estimates, are now rejected in the academic, but the 100 million figure is still used.
‘So what?’ needs no answer. I am not justifying anyone, or defending Marxist regimes.
But your timeline should be highly significant for your actions. How has your timeline update affected your planned decisions?
Apparently, GPT-3 has greatly influenced the forecasts. I wonder if this is true?
We will see in Afghanistan whether banning contraception is one of those viable policies to inflate fertility.
Any data for India?
Perhaps a nuclear war today would reduce the possibility of human extinction within this century. It appears that AGI is close, without substantial progress in AI Safety. A nuclear war, would, I believe cause a major slowdown in AI progress, increasing the probability of getting an aligned AI at the end.
True, and income distribution is far less unequal.
To what extent can these trends be observed in other countries, I wonder?