Background material recommendations (popular-level audience, very short time commitment): Please recommend your favorite basic AGI safety background reading / videos / lectures / etc. For this sub-thread please only recommend background material suitable for complete newcomers to the field, with a time commitment of at most 1-2 hours. Extra bonus for explaining why you particularly like your suggestion over other potential suggestions, and/or for elaborating on which audiences might benefit most from different suggestions.
Rob Miles’s youtube channel, see this intro. Also his video on the stop button problem for Computerphile. - Easily accessible, entertaining, videos are low cost for many people to watch, and they often end up watching several.
The wiki is primarily for editors not readers, so the home page encourages people to write answers. There is a link to Browse FAQ in the sidebar for now, but we’ll be replacing that with a custom UI soon.
This talk from Joe Carlsmith. - Hits at several of the key ideas really directly given the time and technical background constraints. Like Rob’s videos, implies an obvious next step for people interested in learning more, or who are suspicious of one of the claims (reading Joe’s actual report, maybe even the extensive discussion of it on here).
Background material recommendations (popular-level audience, very short time commitment): Please recommend your favorite basic AGI safety background reading / videos / lectures / etc. For this sub-thread please only recommend background material suitable for complete newcomers to the field, with a time commitment of at most 1-2 hours. Extra bonus for explaining why you particularly like your suggestion over other potential suggestions, and/or for elaborating on which audiences might benefit most from different suggestions.
Rob Miles’s youtube channel, see this intro. Also his video on the stop button problem for Computerphile.
- Easily accessible, entertaining, videos are low cost for many people to watch, and they often end up watching several.
I really enjoyed Wait but Why.
Which should be followed by reading https://lukemuehlhauser.com/a-reply-to-wait-but-why-on-machine-superintelligence/
Stampy has an initial draft of an answer, but it could be improved.
I can’t see anything on this wiki except about six questions with no answers. I assume it’s meant to be more than that?
The wiki is primarily for editors not readers, so the home page encourages people to write answers. There is a link to Browse FAQ in the sidebar for now, but we’ll be replacing that with a custom UI soon.
This talk from Joe Carlsmith. - Hits at several of the key ideas really directly given the time and technical background constraints. Like Rob’s videos, implies an obvious next step for people interested in learning more, or who are suspicious of one of the claims (reading Joe’s actual report, maybe even the extensive discussion of it on here).