I recommend Heretical Fishing. It's like a Discworld novel with Twoflower as a protagonist.

Peter McCluskey (@PeterMcCluskey)

I've been creating prediction markets on Manifold in order to better predict AI strategies. Please trade them.

E.g.: Will prioritizing corrigible AI produce safe results?

See manifold.markets/PeterMcClusk...

Uncontrollable Book review: Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World, by Darren McKee. This is by far the best introduction to AI risk for people who know little a…

Darren McKee's book "Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World" is a great introduction for beginners. See my full review at bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.p...

Openwater’s Cancer Treatment The standout announcement from the recent Foresight Vision Weekend came from Openwater, who presented a novel cancer treatment. I’ve been a bit slow to write about it, in part because my init…

Openwater has an interesting technology for treating cancer. See my blog for more:
bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.p...

Corrigibility should be an AI's Only Goal — LessWrong TL;DR: • * Corrigibility is a simple and natural enough concept that a prosaic AGI can likely be trained to obey it. * * AI labs are on track to…

I have a blog post on why it's important to prioritize corrigibility as the goal of AIs:
www.lesswrong.com/posts/CPziGa...

Markets and the Election Here are some scattered comments about the 2024 elections. I was glad to have Manifold Markets and Election Betting Odds to watch the results. I want numbers, not encumbered by the storytellers and…

I wrote some thoughts on markets and the election here: bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.p...