I know this is not an original observation, but recent events have made me grok it in a way I had not really before. The principal function of an entrepreneur 1 is to act as an economic catalyst: organizing talent, money, and other resources to as to be able to...
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Private Equity as Legibility Arbitrage
One thing struck me the other day as I was reading about private equity (PE) led ‘rollups’ and consolidations of different sectors: it’s all due to legibility and the increasing legibility crisis that comes with greater centralization and inequality. The basic private equity model here seems to be as follows:...
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My rough categorization of AI risk types
This is just a quick post to share a rough scheme I have for assessing the potential AI risk caused by specific models. It probably needs a lot more fleshing out and discussion to be fully general but I think it is a useful intuition pump.
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The case for removing alignment and ML research from the training data
Many possible sources of danger from AI stem from the AI knowing a lot about itself, us, and the potential auditing and alignment methods we might try to use to either align the AI or to detect misaligned models. Suppose we have an AGI that contains a misaligned mesaoptimizer playing...
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BCIs and the ecosystem of modular minds
Epistemic status: Much more speculative than previous posts but points towards an aspect of the future that is becoming clearer which I think is underappreciated at present. If you are interested in any of these thoughts please reach out.
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