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Blake Elias
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Sep 30, 2022

Run Towards Fully-General Tech Companies

They Just Might Save Us While the rise of Autonomous AGI (AAGI) could be a very dangerous scenario / arms race, there’s a step before AAGI (and even orthogonal to it), which is the use of simpler AI (whether human-level AGI, or even narrow AI) in a controlled, non-autonomous way. Companies which possess such controlled…

AI

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AI

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Sep 30, 2022

AI Policy-Maker

An AI approach to (public health) policy. When a pandemic strikes, policy-makers face a complex decision about what intervention(s) are best for society — both in terms of lives and dollars. The calculations are too complex and emotionally-fraught for human policy-makers to perform well. I propose a future where an…

AI

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AI Policy-Maker
AI Policy-Maker
AI

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May 11, 2022

How to Have Cascading Impact

If we want to solve the “big” problems (climate, poverty, pandemics, etc.), we need to solve some “smaller” problems first. By getting a handle on these smaller problems, we position ourselves to attack something bigger. I am in process of finding some smaller problems I care about and want to…

Complexity

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Complexity

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May 11, 2022

Key Theses

Truths to hang onto in a post-truth world. (1) There is such a thing as right and wrong. This sounds obvious — like something we’d all want to be true. Yet when it comes down to the details of messy real-world situations, we see that we often can’t agree on right vs wrong. Indeed, I’d argue most issues in our…

Ethics

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Ethics

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May 10, 2022

Chameleons and Contrarians

Some people blend in to whatever culture they land in. Others do the opposite. We can call these types chameleons and contrarians, respectively. Chameleons know how to change their colors to blend in. They get along with people easily, are highly agreeable and empathetic. They can assess the environment they’re…

Entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurship

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Mar 1, 2021

Intrinsic Reward, Biological Utility, and Saving the Planet

I have long believed that the best things to do are the things that drive you internally, rather than those things that solely bring extrinsic rewards (e.g. payment, etc.). So when I recently came across the below lecture, “Behavior without Utility” (by Prof. …

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Jan 11, 2021

Pandemics: Preparation for International Climate Cooperation

We need ways of making collective decisions as a society and building consensus, if we’re going to solve our large challenges. We need it for this pandemic. How are we going to solve it? With a vaccine? With lock-downs? Not solve it at all, just let it take its natural…

Climate Change

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Pandemics: Preparation for International Climate Cooperation
Pandemics: Preparation for International Climate Cooperation
Climate Change

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Nov 1, 2020

COVID-19 is Exploiting Our Dividedness

If COVID-19 were 10 times as deadly, we would have eliminated it by now. It would have been so clearly dangerous, that we would be unwilling to accept its continued spread, and we would work harder to eliminate it. …

Covid 19

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Covid 19

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Oct 11, 2020

The Case for Open-Ended AI

Biology One major influence on my view of AI, was spending 2 years in a synthetic biology lab. I came to appreciate how much intelligence is contained in living systems (even as simple as a cell). And attending Michael Levin’s NeurIPS 2018 keynote underscored that the key to intelligence is not…

Artificial Intelligence

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The Case for Open-Ended AI
The Case for Open-Ended AI
Artificial Intelligence

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Oct 10, 2020

Open-Endedness, Multi-Agent Learning and Existential Risk

If we want to talk about general intelligence, with agents that undergo life-long, open-ended learning, then we have to talk about agents existing in a continuous feedback loop with a changing environment. It’s not enough to design a “perfectly intelligent” agent, that we train just once and then put out…

Artificial Intelligence

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Open-Endedness, Multi-Agent Learning and Existential Risk
Open-Endedness, Multi-Agent Learning and Existential Risk
Artificial Intelligence

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