What if Trump is channeling his inner doctor strange and is crashing the economy in order to slow AI progress and buy time for alignment? Eliezer calls for an AI pause, Trump MAKES an AI pause. I rest my case that Trump is the most important figure in the history of AI alignment.
Yes, the likely outcome of a long tariff regime is China replaces the U.S. as the hegemon + AI race leader and they can’t read Lesswrong or EA blogs there so all this work is useless.
What if Trump is channeling his inner doctor strange and is crashing the economy in order to slow AI progress and buy time for alignment? Eliezer calls for an AI pause, Trump MAKES an AI pause. I rest my case that Trump is the most important figure in the history of AI alignment.
Trump shot an arrow into the air; it fell to Earth, he knows not where...
Probably one of the best succinct summaries of every damn week that man is president lmao
If that was his goal, he has better options.
Yes, the likely outcome of a long tariff regime is China replaces the U.S. as the hegemon + AI race leader and they can’t read Lesswrong or EA blogs there so all this work is useless.
LessWrong is uncensored in China.
VPNs exist and are probably widely used in China + much of “all this work” is on ArXiv etc.