Problems in AI alignment: A scale model
After trying too hard for too to make sense about what bothers me with the AI alignment conversation, I have settled, in true Millenial fashion, on a meme:
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Ben Franklin: The Original Large Language Model
I’m sure others have pointed this out, but here’s a passage from his autobiography where he describes how he trained himself as a writer.
Platon: Rules for Trustful Civic Organizing
Fresh off the press (of the Enter button). This is my general-purpose (if simple) answer to the question of how we build a better politics. But it has the benefit of being a game that has a minimum of two players, so the barrier to entry is low!
The current moment
A few thoughts on politics and AI (sorry!) circa 2025, in about 50 minutes of audio:
AI is actually, literally, scientifically already alive
The “a” word
Software Development Best Practices
What are software best practices, really?
The AI Agency Narrowing Effect
I submit the following as the AI Agency Alignment Narrowing Effect:
Eight Commandments for AI: A Consumer’s Perspective
Preramble
Every Software Project is a Startup That Will Probably Fail
It dawned on me today. Maybe most software fails. Not in the sense that “it eventually dies after a long and respectable life.” In the sense that it never actually achieves flight, never catches on, never produces more value that it cost to develop.
I done did it again!
Dear children,