Richard Ngo (@richardmcngo) 's Twitter Profile
Richard Ngo

@richardmcngo

studying AI and trust. ex @openai/@googledeepmind, now thinking in public.

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Historic, must-read speech. The world’s two biggest problems are risks from AGI, and the cultural/institutional collapse of the West. This speech is a rallying point against the latter. But Dominic is also one of very few people searching for intertwined solutions to both.

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Option A: 10% of your country’s population dies in a war (German death rate in WW2). Option B: N% of your country’s population develops values deeply hostile to your country’s former values. For what value of N are these approximately equally bad for your country’s future?

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Inference is hosting some of the world’s leading experts for a debate on the possibility and potential consequences of automated AI research. The debate will be hosted in London on July 1st. There are limited spaces available. Register your interest below

Inference is hosting some of the world’s leading experts for a debate on the possibility and potential consequences of automated AI research. 

The debate will be hosted in London on July 1st. There are limited spaces available. Register your interest below
David Duvenaud (@davidduvenaud) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's hard to plan for AGI without knowing what outcomes are even possible, let alone good. So we’re hosting a workshop! Post-AGI Civilizational Equilibria: Are there any good ones? Vancouver, July 14th Featuring: Joe Carlsmith Richard Ngo Emmett Shear 🧵

It's hard to plan for AGI without knowing what outcomes are even possible, let alone good.  So we’re hosting a workshop!

Post-AGI Civilizational Equilibria: Are there any good ones?

Vancouver, July 14th

Featuring: <a href="/jkcarlsmith/">Joe Carlsmith</a> <a href="/RichardMCNgo/">Richard Ngo</a> <a href="/eshear/">Emmett Shear</a> đź§µ
Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh_sp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A lot of stories of AI going well involve the US and China being open and transparent with each other. One of the reasons the Spanish were able to conquer New World empires so easily is that while Pizarro learned a lot from how Cortes took over the Aztecs, and Cortes learned

Chris Lakin (@chrischipmonk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you make >$300k/yr why aren’t you announcing random $1,000 prizes every Saturday for whatever you want to see happen in the world? $1k prize for best blog post on X, $1k or best art like Y, $1k for best _____. High agency mindset