LessWrong posts by zvi
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“AI #132 Part 2: Actively Making It Worse” by Zvi
57 minutes Posted Sep 5, 2025 at 12:00 am.
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Quiet Speculations
The Quest for Sane Regulations
The Quest For No Regulations
But This Time You've Gone Too Far
Chip City
The Week in Audio
Rhetorical Innovation
Safety Third at xAI
Misaligned!
Lab Safeguards Seem Inadequate
Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult
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It's rough out there. Have we tried engaging in less active sabotage? No? Carry on.
Table of Contents
Quiet Speculations. What will become the new differentiators?
The Quest for Sane Regulations. Bostrom proposes improving on status quo a bit.
The Quest For No Regulations. Cato Institute CEO says Cato Institute things.
But This Time You’ve Gone Too Far. You’re drawing the line where? Really?
Chip City. Sabotaging American solar and wind, the strategic value of chips.
The Week in Audio. Interest rates, Lee versus Piper, Jack Clark, Hinton.
Rhetorical Innovation. Listening does not accomplish what you might hope.
Safety Third at xAI. More on their no good very bad framework. A new prompt.
Misaligned! Will any old crap cause misalignment? At least a little, yes.
Lab Safeguards Seem Inadequate. AI Safety Claims formalizes how inadequate.
[...] ---Outline:(
00:20) Quiet Speculations(00:53) The Quest for Sane Regulations(04:34) The Quest For No Regulations(07:36) But This Time You've Gone Too Far(16:05) Chip City(25:13) The Week in Audio(27:25) Rhetorical Innovation(36:19) Safety Third at xAI(44:48) Misaligned!(46:03) Lab Safeguards Seem Inadequate(47:52) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult(54:37) The Lighter Side The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. ---
First published:
September 5th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jppFpbRCG9y3Xyuau/ai-132-part-2-actively-making-it-worse
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