New Year resolution

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To read my https://twitter.com/home more regularly (that's absolutely the best source of info at the moment).

A small fraction of today's catch:

New work by Janus

A new involved take on AI safety/alignment

(What's the right way to organize all that information?)

Links are in the comments (I think the new work by Janus is more important even for alignment, and is just overall more important of the two topics of this post)...

Comments

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This new "Janus sequence" is focusing on alignment a lot (good!)

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"Conditional on having a foundational understanding of simulators (supported by theorems and empirical results), we hope to be able to construct a simulation (or a set of simulations) that reliably produces useful alignment research."

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Janus in the comments to the first post:

"It's like this: magic exists now. The amount of magic in the world is increasing, allowing for increasingly powerful spells and artifacts, such as CLONE MIND. This is concerning for obvious reasons. One would hope that the protagonists, whose goal it is to steer this autocatalyzing explosion of psychic energy through the needle of an eye to utopia, will become competent at magic."