Nicholas Kross

Dec 16, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Nicholas Kross |Roman Hauksson |Matt Goldenberg

Woah, I just read from that article you sent about ultrasound:it’s a huge opportunity for research. If you can “turn up” or “turn down” any brain region at will, safely enough to mess around with it on healthy human subjects, you can develop a functional atlas of the brain, where you find out exactly what each part is doing. That absolutely blew my mind.

Oct 13, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Nicholas Kross |Stephen McAleese |Alex K. Chen |Nathan Helm-Burger

EDIT: The full post is now upOh boy do I have a response for you. I think it may be possible to significantly enhance adult intelligence through gene editing. The basic idea goes something like this:There are about 20,000 genetic variants that influence fluid intelligenceMost of the variance among humans is determined by the number of IQ-decreasing minor alleles someone has.

Jul 12, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Stephen McAleese |Nicholas Kross |Roman Leventov

Note: this post was updated on 2 January 2024 to reflect all available data from 2023. AI safety is a field concerned with preventing negative outcomes from AI systems and ensuring that AI is beneficial to humanity. The field does research on problems such as the AI alignment problem which is the problem of designing AI systems that follow user intentions and behave in a desirable and beneficial way.

Jul 3, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Sammy Martin |Joseph Bloom |Roger Dearnaley |Nicholas Kross

Chris Olah recently released a tweet thread describing how the Anthropic team thinks about AI alignment difficulty. On this view, there is a spectrum of possible scenarios ranging from ‘alignment is very easy’ to ‘alignment is impossible’, and we can frame AI alignment research as a process of increasing the probability of beneficial outcomes by progressively addressing these scenarios.