Future Matters
Future Matters, Matthew, PabloNewsletter about longtermism and existential risk by Matthew van der Merwe and Pablo Stafforini.
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#8: Bing Chat, AI labs on safety, and pausing Future Matters
Future Matters is a newsletter about longtermism and existential risk by Matthew van der Merwe and Pablo Stafforini. Each month we curate and summarize relevant research and news from the community. The version crossposted to the Effective...
#7: AI timelines, AI skepticism, and lock-in
That man is born merely for a few, who thinks only of the people of his own generation. Many thousands of years and many thousands of peoples will come after you; it is to these that you should have regard.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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#6: FTX collapse, value lock-in, and counterarguments to AI x-risk
[T]he sun with all the planets will in time grow too cold for life, unless indeed some great body dashes into the sun and thus gives it fresh life. Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than...
#5: supervolcanoes, AI takeover, and What We Owe the Future
Even if we think the prior existence view is more plausible than the total view, we should recognize that we could be mistaken about this and therefore give some value to the life of a possible future. The number of human beings who will...
#4: AI timelines, AGI risk, and existential risk from climate change
But if it is held that each generation can by its own deliberate acts determine for good or evil the destinies of the race, then our duties towards others reach out through time as well as through space, and our contemporaries are only a...
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