Doing Planning

TagLast edit: Mar 19, 2025, 7:13 PM by ProgramCrafter

The Doing Planning tag is for posts that explore how the world is and how to prepare for future, often conditional on certain scenarios (like success of brain uploads or achievement of AGI) playing out.

[Question] Ways to prepare to a vastly new world?

AnnapurnaFeb 26, 2023, 4:56 AM

12 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

The Field of AI Alignment: A Postmortem, and What To Do About It

johnswentworthDec 26, 2024, 6:48 PM

293 points

160 comments8 min readLW link

What We Can Do to Prevent Extinction by AI

Joe RogeroFeb 24, 2025, 5:15 PM

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

I make several million dollars per year and have hundreds of thousands of followers—what is the straightest line path to utilizing these resources to reduce existential-level AI threats?

shrimpyMar 16, 2025, 4:52 PM

158 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If I wanted to spend WAY more on AI, what would I spend it on?

Logan ZoellnerSep 15, 2024, 9:24 PM

53 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

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Do­ing Planning

[Question] Ways to pre­pare to a vastly new world?

The Field of AI Align­ment: A Post­mortem, and What To Do About It

What We Can Do to Prevent Ex­tinc­tion by AI

I make sev­eral mil­lion dol­lars per year and have hun­dreds of thou­sands of fol­low­ers—what is the straight­est line path to uti­liz­ing these re­sources to re­duce ex­is­ten­tial-level AI threats?