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Matthew Barnett

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Someone who is interested in learning and doing good.

My Twitter: https://​​twitter.com/​​MatthewJBar

My Substack: https://​​matthewbarnett.substack.com/​​

We prob­a­bly won’t just play sta­tus games with each other af­ter AGI

Matthew BarnettJan 15, 2025, 4:56 AM
94 points
21 comments4 min readLW link

Some ar­gu­ments against a land value tax

Matthew BarnettDec 29, 2024, 3:17 PM
83 points
39 comments15 min readLW link

Dist­in­guish­ing ways AI can be “con­cen­trated”

Matthew BarnettOct 21, 2024, 10:21 PM
28 points
2 commentsLW link

Against most, but not all, AI risk analogies

Matthew BarnettJan 14, 2024, 3:36 AM
63 points
41 comments7 min readLW link

My thoughts on the so­cial re­sponse to AI risk

Matthew BarnettNov 1, 2023, 9:17 PM
157 points
37 comments10 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing Epoch’s newly ex­panded Pa­ram­e­ters, Com­pute and Data Trends in Ma­chine Learn­ing database

Robi Rahman, Jaime Sevilla Molina, Tamay, Ege Erdil, Pablo Villalobos, Ben Cottier and Matthew Barnett
Oct 25, 2023, 2:55 AM
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(epochai.org)

Eval­u­at­ing the his­tor­i­cal value mis­speci­fi­ca­tion argument

Matthew BarnettOct 5, 2023, 6:34 PM
190 points
162 comments7 min readLW link3 reviews

Up­dat­ing Drexler’s CAIS model

Matthew BarnettJun 16, 2023, 10:53 PM
47 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

Are Emer­gent Abil­ities of Large Lan­guage Models a Mirage? [linkpost]

Matthew BarnettMay 2, 2023, 9:01 PM
53 points
19 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Shut­ting down AI is not enough. We need to de­stroy all tech­nol­ogy.

Matthew BarnettApr 1, 2023, 9:03 PM
152 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

Con­ced­ing a short timelines bet early

Matthew BarnettMar 16, 2023, 9:49 PM
133 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

A pro­posed method for fore­cast­ing trans­for­ma­tive AI

Matthew BarnettFeb 10, 2023, 7:34 PM
121 points
21 comments10 min readLW link

Not­ing an er­ror in Inad­e­quate Equilibria

Matthew BarnettFeb 8, 2023, 1:33 AM
366 points
60 comments2 min readLW link2 reviews

Slightly against al­ign­ing with neo-luddites

Matthew BarnettDec 26, 2022, 10:46 PM
104 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

Up­dat­ing my AI timelines

Matthew BarnettDec 5, 2022, 8:46 PM
145 points
50 comments2 min readLW link

Could a sin­gle alien mes­sage de­stroy us?

Writer and Matthew Barnett
Nov 25, 2022, 7:32 AM
61 points
23 comments6 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

A con­ver­sa­tion about Katja’s coun­ter­ar­gu­ments to AI risk

Matthew Barnett and Ege Erdil
Oct 18, 2022, 6:40 PM
43 points
9 comments33 min readLW link

The Most Im­por­tant Cen­tury: The Animation

Writer and Matthew Barnett
Jul 24, 2022, 8:58 PM
46 points
2 comments20 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

A con­crete bet offer to those with short AGI timelines

Matthew Barnett and Tamay
Apr 9, 2022, 9:41 PM
199 points
120 comments5 min readLW link

Google’s new 540 billion pa­ram­e­ter lan­guage model

Matthew BarnettApr 4, 2022, 5:49 PM
108 points
81 comments1 min readLW link
(storage.googleapis.com)