Albert Wenger

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Philosophy Mondays: Values https://continuations.com/philosophy-mondays-values

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Reasonable people can disagree on policies such as tariffs but abducting foreigners and threatening citizens with the same is straight up totalitarian.

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Super excited about this potential path to "actually open" AI

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Blog post: Some Thoughts on the Trump Presidency https://continuations.com/some-thoughts-on-the-trump-presidency

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Philosophy Mondays: Randomness, Replication, Selection and Free Will https://continuations.com/philosophy-mondays-randomness,-replication,-selection-and-free-will

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Wrote a post on Musk as a potential scapegoat for Trump: A Scenario https://continuations.com/a-scenario

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Philosophy Mondays: Judgment https://continuations.com/philosophy-mondays-judgment

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Remember when Sam Altman said that AI systems could just "learn the collective moral preferences" in response to a question by Jack Kornfield about values? https://youtu.be/hn1Y6GVWUV0?si=wLl9t023O8eYREXm&t=750

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Philosophy Mondays (yes I realize it's Tuesday today): Choice https://continuations.com/philosophy-mondays-choice

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A Humanist Vision for AI -- Speech at the Paris AI Summit (Alternate History) https://continuations.com/a-humanist-vision-for-ai

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"The right to be represented by a bot" needs to become a fundamental right for all humans. We need to be able to mediate our interactions with systems through AI that we trust. I also cover this idea in my book The World After Capital https://worldaftercapital.gitbook.io/worldaftercapital/part-four/informational#bots-for-all-of-us

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I gave a talk 10 years ago titled at BIG Idea and a Bot Idea about basic income and the right to be represented by an AI bot that has held up well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qo7pzH_NM&t=1s

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Philosophy Mondays: Action https://continuations.com/philosophy-mondays-action

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Announcing the @usv investment in Miren https://blog.usv.com/miren

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Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration https://continuations.com/philosophy-mondays-human-ai-collaboration

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A simple proposal: Inner Alignment through Values-Based Pretraining https://continuations.com/inner-alignment-through-values-based-pretraining (includes an offer of grants for research)

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Blog Post: A Dark Forest of ASIs https://continuations.com/a-dark-forest-of-asis

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Philosophy Mondays: Knowledge https://continuations.com/philosophy-mondays-knowledge

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My talk on Energy and Progress (now with transcript) https://continuations.com/energy-and-progress

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My talk from the #DLD conference: Energy and Progress, aka Build, Baby, Build youtu.be/HKMAp5sttec?...

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