Last summer, he announced the Stanford AI Alignment group (SAIA) in a blog post with a diagram of a tree representing his plan. He’d recruit a broad group of students (the soil) and then “funnel” the most promising candidates (the roots) up through the pipeline (the trunk).

See, it’s like marketing the idea, in a multilevel way

  • David GerardMA
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    41 year ago

    this is the most credulous goddamn journalist on earth and that’s saying something in tech

  • @selfMA
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    31 year ago

    Last summer, he announced the Stanford AI Alignment group (SAIA) in a blog post with a diagram of a tree representing his plan.

    what, did SAIL not want to be associated with this nonsense for some reason?

    anybody got a paywall bypass that works for the Washington Post? I’ve already exceeded my article limit for this month by having the nerve to open the same article in two different apps

    • @blakestaceyOPMA
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      31 year ago

      It looks like you can get the whole thing by viewing the page source.

      • @froztbyte
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        21 year ago

        another trick that often works is reader mode

    • @selfMA
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      21 year ago

      nice! I’ll keep in mind that archive.is and yanking the article text from the page source both work in the future, since otherwise their paywall is particularly aggressive