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How do I move forward if I have very short ASI timelines?

I am a 24 year old male. A year ago I figured I had well over a half century until I'd die. I'm no longer sure of this. Six months ago I thought AI was an interesting, useful, and sometimes unwieldy tool for programmers and researchers and such…

How probable do you guys find existential catastrophe as a result of misaligned ASI to be?

I have been trying to think seriously about this for the last 5 months or so. Before this, my biggest worries about AI were the future of work, carbon footprint of rapidly scaling infrastructure, and financial speculation. But the Mythos incident, the …

What is the actual economic value proposition for AI-generated images and videos?

(Please don't make any moral arguments about AI. This is not the thread for that.) The only people whom I've seen make use of AI-generated images are basically bad bloggers, spammers, Twitter users, and that's essentially it. I imagine very…