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The **lab mice problem** **Today's "subhuman" AIs are safe.**What about **future AIs with more human-like abilities?**
Today's AI systems aren't advanced enough to exhibit the basic behaviors we want to study, such as deceiving and manipulating humans.
Like trying to study medicine in humans by experimenting only on lab mice.
How We Could Stumble Into AI Catastrophe
Cold Takes
Loss in Judo is more personal than in other sports. Defeat in a sport like tennis feels bad, but defeat in a fighting sport is crushing in ways that most people do not comprehend. My coach liked to say that “at the end of the day, Judo is a fight, and humans respond very differently to losing in a physical fight.”
An Expertise Acceleration Experiment in Judo
Cedric Chin
Tramps work, hoboes won't, and bums can't.
Common, selfdefining phrase heard among the men in the freight yards.
End of the Line
John Free
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