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Katja Grace

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Katja Grace writes world spirit sock puppet, a personal blog at worldspiritsockpuppet.substack.com about ai and philosophy. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Let's think about slowing down AI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2023

Substack version of worldspiritsockpuppet.com, the blog of Katja Grace.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Let's think about slowing down AI
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-12-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. There's no single "alignment faction" in terms of these questions. There are people associated with the alignment research program who do advocate slowing things down, e.g., https://worldspiritsockpuppet.substack.com/p/lets-think-abou... . There are a variety of other different positions, e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, and MIRI have all taken different public stances on this

    Comment linking /p/lets-think-about-slowing-down-ai

    on “Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI”
  2. Submitted Let's think about slowing down AI as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted We Don't Trade with Ants as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Let's think about slowing down AI as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Averting doom by not building the doom machine as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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