Mo Putera

Jan 16, 2025 | lesswrong.com | Mo Putera

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Dec 16, 2023 | lesswrong.com | GPTs Think |Steven Byrnes |Mo Putera |Yoav Ravid

Title/Link Post Karma Pingback Count Total Pingback Karma Avg Pingback Karma AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities 870 158 12,484 79 MIRI announces new "Death With Dignity" strategy 334 73 8,134 111 A central AI alignment problem: capabilities generalization, and the sharp left turn 273 96 7,704 80 Simulators 612 127 7,699 61 Without specific countermeasures, the easiest path to transformative AI likely leads to AI takeover 367 83 5,123 62 Reward is not the optimization target 341 62 4,493 72 A...

Dec 16, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Thane Ruthenis |Oliver Sourbut |Mo Putera |Gerald M. Monroe

When discussing AGI Risk, people often talk about it in terms of a war between humanity and an AGI. Comparisons between the amounts of resources at both sides' disposal are brought up and factored in, big impressive nuclear stockpiles are sometimes waved around, etc. I'm pretty sure it's not how that'd look like, on several levels. 1.

Oct 27, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Thane Ruthenis |Mo Putera |Wei Dai |Nathan Helm-Burger

Many discussions of AI risk are unproductive or confused because it’s hard to pin down concepts like “coherence” and “expected utility maximization” in the context of deep learning. In this post I attempt to bridge this gap by describing a process by which AI values might become more coherent, which I’m calling “value systematization”, and which plays a crucial role in my thinking about AI risk.

Oct 18, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Eli Tyre |Spencer Becker-Kahn |Mo Putera

Judea Pearl is a famous researcher, known for Bayesian networks (the standard way of representing Bayesian models), and his statistical formalization of causality. Although he has always been recommended reading here, he's less of a staple compared to, say, Jaynes. So the need to re-introduce him. My purpose here is to highlight a soothing, unexpected show of rationality on his part. One year ago I reviewed his last book, The Book of Why, in a failed submission to the ACX book review contest.