Difference between revisions of "Emotional difficulties of AI safety research"
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* [[Predicting the future is hard, predicting a future with futuristic technology is even harder]] | * [[Predicting the future is hard, predicting a future with futuristic technology is even harder]] | ||
| + | * [[AI safety has many prerequisites]] | ||
* [[One cannot tinker with AGI safety because no AGI has been built yet]] | * [[One cannot tinker with AGI safety because no AGI has been built yet]] | ||
* [[Thinking about death is painful]] | * [[Thinking about death is painful]] | ||
* [[Abstract utilitarianish thinking can infect everyday life activities]] (see [[Anna Salamon]]'s post about this for more details) | * [[Abstract utilitarianish thinking can infect everyday life activities]] (see [[Anna Salamon]]'s post about this for more details) | ||
| − | * [[AI safety contains some memetic hazards]] (e.g. distant superintelligence stuff, malign universal prior, most famously [[Roko's basilisk]]) | + | * [[AI safety contains some memetic hazards]] (e.g. distant superintelligence stuff, malign universal prior, most famously [[Roko's basilisk]]) -- I think this one affects a very small percentage (maybe 1% or less than that) of people who become interested in AI safety |
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Emotional difficulties of spaced repetition]] | * [[Emotional difficulties of spaced repetition]] | ||
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[[Category:AI safety meta]] | [[Category:AI safety meta]] | ||
Latest revision as of 18:25, 18 July 2021
listing out only the difficulties arising from the subject matter itself, without reference to the AI safety community
- Predicting the future is hard, predicting a future with futuristic technology is even harder
- AI safety has many prerequisites
- One cannot tinker with AGI safety because no AGI has been built yet
- Thinking about death is painful
- Abstract utilitarianish thinking can infect everyday life activities (see Anna Salamon's post about this for more details)
- AI safety contains some memetic hazards (e.g. distant superintelligence stuff, malign universal prior, most famously Roko's basilisk) -- I think this one affects a very small percentage (maybe 1% or less than that) of people who become interested in AI safety
