Richard Ngo

Mar 18, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Richard Ngo |Martin Soto |Martín Soto

This post was produced as part of the Astra Fellowship under the Winter 2024 Cohort, mentored by Richard Ngo. Thanks to Martín Soto, Jeremy Gillien, Daniel Kokotajlo, and Lukas Berglund for feedback. SummaryDiscussions around the likelihood and threat models of AI existential risk (x-risk) often hinge on some informal concept of a “coherent”, goal-directed AGI in the future maximizing some utility function unaligned with human values.

Oct 26, 2023 | mindthefuture.info | Richard Ngo

Lately I’ve been reading about the history of economic thought, with the goal of understanding how today’s foundational ideas were originally developed. My biggest takeaway has been that economics is more of a moving target than I’d realized. Early economists were studying economies which lacked many of the defining features of modern economies: limited liability corporations, trade unions, depressions, labor markets, capital markets, and so on.