How I failed to form views on AI safety - EA Forum
This post describes my personal experience. It was written to clear my mind but edited to help interested people understand others in similar situations. …
richard_ngo 4y 50 0 0 I really liked this post. I've often felt frustrated by how badly the alignment community has explained the problem, especially to ML practitioners and researchers, and I personally find neither Superintelligence nor Human Compatible very persuasive. For what it's worth, my default hypothesis is that you're unconvinced by the arguments about AI risk in significant part because you are applying an usually high level of epistemic rigour, which is a skill that seems valuable to continue applying to this topic (including in the case where AI risk isn't important, since that w
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