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Leopold Aschenbrenner
Personal blog · forourposterity.comaieconomics
Leopold Aschenbrenner writes FOR OUR POSTERITY, a personal blog at forourposterity.com about ai and economics. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Nobody’s on the Ball on AGI Alignment”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Leopold Aschenbrenner's essay on AGI alignment, which argues that scalable alignment is a solvable ML problem and that current alignment research is in a poor state. Only the original link and a quoted passage were posted.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about AI, economic growth, decadence, and the long-run future.
Most-linked posts?
- Nobody’s on the Ball on AGI Alignment3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-29
- Response to Tyler Cowen on AI Risk2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-06
- Canada and Mexico Should Join the Union – For Our Posterity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-30
What Hacker News says?
original link is https://www.forourposterity.com/nobodys-on-the-ball-on-agi-a... "my pessimism on the current state of alignment research very much doesn’t mean I’m an Eliezer-style doomer. Quite the opposite, I’m optimistic. I think scalable alignment is a solvable problem—and it’s an ML problem"
Comment linking /nobodys-on-the-ball-on-agi-alignment/
on “Nobody’s on the Ball on AGI Alignment”Submitted Against Netflix as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted A $57,600 Check for Every Newborn as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Economics of Decoupling (including: Chaos Monkey for supply chains?) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Canada and Mexico Should Join the Union – For Our Posterity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Response to Tyler Cowen on AI Risk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Want to win the AGI race? Solve alignment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nobody’s on the Ball on AGI Alignment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Burkean Longtermism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Canada and Mexico Should Join the Union as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weak-to-strong generalization (GPT-4 Turbo was Pareto-SOTA) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Response to Tyler Cowen on AI Risk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nobody’s on the Ball on AGI Alignment as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
