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The **Lance Armstrong problem** Did we get the AI to be **actually safe** or **good at hiding its dangerous actions?**
When dealing with an intelligent agent, it’s hard to tell the difference between “behaving well” and “*appearing* to behave well.”
When professional cycling was cracking down on performance-enhancing drugs, Lance Armstrong was very successful and seemed to be unusually “clean.” It later came out that he had been using drugs with an unusually sophisticated operation for concealing them.
How We Could Stumble Into AI Catastrophe
Cold Takes
WHAT’S THE BENEFIT OF TURNING NUCLEAR WASTE INTO GLASS?
In the glass matrix, the HLW is highly impervious to separation. If a geological repository were to be flooded and the stainless steel canisters breached, the water would be incapable of leaching out the HLW from the glass matrix.
Glass Act: The Coanda Effect and Why We Transform Nuclear Waste Into Borosilicate Glass. — The Prepared
theprepared.org
I like the idea that even as our chips and disks get faster, enhancements are simultaneously being pushed through on the software level through the likes of io_uring. So even while every newly available hardware cycle in web or mobile apps is immediately burned away through increasingly deep stacks of JavaScript nonsense, at least our databases and server software should be getting strictly faster.
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