titotal

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A deep critique of AI 2027’s bad timeline models

titotal19 Jun 2025 13:29 UTC

372 points

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A widely shared AI productivity paper was retracted, is possibly fraudulent

titotal19 May 2025 10:18 UTC

58 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Slopworld 2035: The dangers of mediocre AI

titotal14 Apr 2025 13:14 UTC

22 points

6 comments29 min readLW link

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Is “superhuman” AI forecasting BS? Some experiments on the “539″ bot from the Centre for AI Safety

titotal18 Sep 2024 13:07 UTC

79 points

3 comments14 min readLW link

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Most smart and skilled people are outside of the EA/rationalist community: an analysis

titotal12 Jul 2024 12:13 UTC

111 points

39 comments14 min readLW link

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Motivation gaps: Why so much EA criticism is hostile and lazy

titotal22 Apr 2024 11:49 UTC

70 points

5 comments19 min readLW link

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The Leeroy Jenkins principle: How faulty AI could guarantee “warning shots”

titotal14 Jan 2024 15:03 UTC

48 points

6 comments21 min readLW link

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Why Yudkowsky is wrong about “covalently bonded equivalents of biology”

titotal6 Dec 2023 14:09 UTC

35 points

42 comments16 min readLW link

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[Question] Thoughts on teletransportation with copies?

titotal29 Nov 2023 12:56 UTC

15 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

A new intro to Quantum Physics, with the math fixed

titotal29 Oct 2023 15:11 UTC

117 points

24 comments17 min readLW link

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“Diamondoid bacteria” nanobots: deadly threat or dead-end? A nanotech investigation

titotal29 Sep 2023 14:01 UTC

161 points

79 comments20 min readLW link

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When do “brains beat brawn” in Chess? An experiment

titotal28 Jun 2023 13:33 UTC

325 points

106 comments7 min readLW link 2 reviews

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The bullseye framework: My case against AI doom

titotal30 May 2023 11:52 UTC

90 points

35 comments17 min readLW link

Bandgaps, Brains, and Bioweapons: The limitations of computational science and what it means for AGI

titotal26 May 2023 15:57 UTC

36 points

20 comments18 min readLW link

Why AGI systems will not be fanatical maximisers (unless trained by fanatical humans)

titotal17 May 2023 11:58 UTC

5 points

3 comments15 min readLW link

How “AGI” could end up being many different specialized AI’s stitched together

titotal8 May 2023 12:32 UTC

9 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

Could a superintelligence deduce general relativity from a falling apple? An investigation

titotal23 Apr 2023 12:49 UTC

150 points

39 comments9 min readLW link