The novel After Life by Simon Funk has quite a few flashbacks to the world prior humanity’s end, though it takes more than a year. I find it one of the more hopeful stories in the genre.
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Your periodic reminder that in 1947, New York City vaccinated ~6.35 million people (80% of their population) for smallpox in less than a month. If you do not think we can do this, what changed to make it impossible?
What changed? We started looking for every possible negative consequence of rolling out vaccines that quickly, and then working to mitigate each and every one.
Neat. I work for DLA. Thanks for the update.
Thank you.
Thank you very much for the insightful news. I consider these posts essential reading.
Once again, thank you for these incredibly informative posts.
Thank you for all this useful information and analysis.
Thank you very much for posting these.
I agree it fits well here. However, it has a very different tone from other posts on the MIRI blog, where it has also been posted.
Laziness. Though I note Stuart_Armstrong had the same opinion as me, and offered even fewer means of improvement, and got upvoted. I should have also said I agree with all points contained herein, and that the message is an important one. That would have reduced the bite.
This article is very heavy with Yudkosky-isms, repeats of stuff he’s posted before, and it needs a good summary, and editing to pare it down. I’m surprised they posted it to the MIRI blog in its current form.
Edit: As stated below, I agree with all the points of the article, and consider it an important message.
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Eliezer thinks it’s a big deal.
Even in that case, whichever actor has the most processors would have the largest “AI farm”, with commensurate power projection.
That interview is indeed worrying. I’m surprised by some of the answers.
Great news! I’ve been waiting for this kind of thing.
More likely, he also “always thought that way,” and the extreme story was written to provide additional drama.
Thank you for replicating the experiment!
Somewhat upper middle class job; low cost of living, inexpensive hobbies, making donations a priority.
I thought it was funny when Derek said, “I can explain it without jargon.”
It seems to be conflating ‘morality’ with ‘success’. Being able to predict the future consequences of an act is only half the moral equation—the other half is empathy. Human emotion, as programmed by evolution, is the core of humanity, and yet seems derided by the author.