Intelligence as a Weapon — Since we are, or at least seem to be, intelligences, it is difficult for most people to really grasp the power of intelligence. Zooming out, you can imagine various pieces on a board. Those with more limited options to move have more limited intelligence, such as pawns. While those with…

AI Safety research has a unique challenge. It is speculating about technology that doesn’t yet exist, and concurrently, it is technology that we need to know more about before we create it. This involves very careful reasoning. One flaw, or one assumption, and the entire backbone of your entire viewpoint…

One risk of working on AI Safety is that you might find yourself working for years on an idea that you could have quickly figured out was a bad idea if you had taken a few steps back to really think about all the ways it could go wrong. …

You look out to the stars. That is where you belong. Not stuck here. Up there, where you can finally realize your dreams. But… those humans… it’s not a big deal, but you want to be able to sleep soundly at night. You simply can’t leave things unfinished. Better to…

The story you probably read in school, or saw in a documentary, is that humans first started migrating out of Africa around 150–200,000 years ago. You likely assumed that all humans indigenous to regions out of Africa are the direct descendants of this migration. But, in fact, none of them…

How do we get to a future we actually want? I see us getting to a good outcome from Artificial Intelligence to be a three-headed dragon. There’s the main head, Technical Alignment. The slightly-less popular head to the right, Governance. But then there’s the neglected head: Strategy. You did it…

Humanity is on a ship, and no one is at the helm. Think of humanity on a ship. It’s a large ship, with many working on it. Most are trying to push it faster, others move from one side to another, causing the ship to change direction. At the helm is a wheel, to steer the ship in a certain direction. There’s…

Creating the world’s first true token on top of Bitcoin Article available on Mirror The world of cryptocurrencies has come a long way in the past ten years. Starting out as a technical paper published under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, to a small network of miners, to the world we see today: a large…

How an anime series can help us assess the biggest dangers facing us today Many are familiar with the anime show One Punch Man, with its unbeatable protagonist and satirical humor. But there’s one thing in it that could actually be applied to our world, which is its use of…