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Effective altruism / AI security / Peaceful music-maker. Chief of Staff (Events Team) at the Centre for Effective Altruism (views my own)

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1 year
As promised: here is an album I made!. The album is called “Boundless, Immaculate” and I’m releasing it under the moniker Larkdown. You can listen to it on Spotify here: .
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@Ollie_Base
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RT @ChanaMessinger: Delighted to finally share with the world what I’ve been up to with the help of some incredible people — a video tour o….
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13 days
I should tag @ohabryka and @jankulveit in case they want to respond here, but I might try and avoid engaging in a long debate.
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It's disappointing to see people like Oli and Jan, who have spent much of their careers encouraging young people to explore weird ideas, to react so contemptuously to a young person making the case for a weird idea. If you think an argument is wrong, just say why it's wrong!
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@eli_lifland
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Agree that the Claude 4 time horizon is an update toward longer timelines.
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2. Dwarkesh:. Helen Toner:.
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A few weak data points in favour of "maybe there's time and willpower to deploy powerful AI safely". 1. No moratorium, and congressfolk worried about severe risks. 2. Some good arguments (IMO) against very short AI timelines. 3. Claude 4 doesn't seem drastically more capable.
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21 days
cheems as they say.
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21 days
This moratorium thing has the vibe of a fragile dweeb child at the playground after a mild insult. "You can't do anything mean to me now 😪 for 10 YEARS! 😭 you have to promise 😪".
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There's an actual take responding to an actual person I intended to work on but ended up here for now.
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"We shouldn't obsess about regulating AI and worrying about risks". *audience gasps*. "but I'm not saying NO regulation". *sighs of relief*. "We need to do something in between these two things". *rapturous applause*.
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Fake internet money where my mouth is: . I'm very bearish on questions like this and am holding a NO position!.
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26 days
It would probably be fair to class me as nervous about AI, but I think it's worth looking closely sometimes at areas where I think things could just go really well. I'm hopeful about music, and I think the above arguments might apply a lot to other art forms I know less about.
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@Ollie_Base
Ollie Base
26 days
3. This is probably the biggest stretch, and is very weakly held. But if AI can make us all more productive and offer more leisure time (a big if!), you'd expect to see a larger market for live concerts, festivals, vinyl (which is back btw, and likely better for musicians) etc.
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2. I expect music production to become less about clicking buttons (that's the easy but laborious part IME) and more about taste, performance, listening, finding the sound and experience you want. The best producers do this already IMO, and won't be replaced.
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More on 1. I've held this view for a while, and we repeatedly see hype that fizzles out. Sure, AI can probably do it, but music is about connecting with other humans!. Exceptions might be study music, soundtracks, background jazz etc.
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I actually feel pretty excited about the impact of AI on music:. 1. I expect people will largely reject AI-generated music. It just . ain't it. 2. It will probably make music production much more accessible. 3. If more automation means more leisure (??), more time to enjoy it!.
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AI companies adding on safety measures post deployment
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Missed out on EA Global: London?. There is an EA event scheduled to take place on *every continent* (bar Antarctica, sorry) in the second half of this year. Apply now! .
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c.f.
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