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FINALLY. "AI Safety for Fleshy Humans", Part One!
🕑 Added 2024-05-05 19:49:41 +0000 UTCHi y'all!
Two years after my last flagship project [Nutshell]...
Four years after my last longform explainer [Covid Futures]...
I'm... mostly relieved, to finally launch my new explainer series, titled!...
🤖 AI SAFETY for FLESHY HUMANS 🤖
🙀 https://aisafety.dance 🙀
Your one-stop-shop to learn all the core ideas in AI & AI Safety, with the help of spaced repetition flashcards, and comics starring a Robot Catboy!
(Yes, we're very proud of that URL)
So far, it's "just" the Intro & Part One, but come on, those are a ~60 minute read in total. Counting the feetnotes & Nutshells, it's over 20,000 words. This is hands-down the largest project I've ever worked on independently and it better pay off, dang it.
Part Two will be out in July, Part Three in October, but I'll be launching other projects in-between the new installments. I need to take a break from this thing & do something else.
(Also, this was a collaboration with Hack Club, a nonprofit run by/for high-schoolers! If you know a teenager, and they're interested in AI/STEM, send 'em either of the above links! If they sign up through the AISafety.dance website, they can get free Robot Catboy stickers, like this one:)
Anyway, hope you enjoy! Deepest apologies it's taken this long, and deepest thanks for sticking with me through out.
And now, it's time for a very long nap.
Tiredly Yours,
~ Nicky Case
Comments
James Horton
Fantastic review, analysis and critique. The depth is amazing, plus the links, so many links! And then the nutshells!! Even more content - knowledge pouring in from every corner of the field. Is there even a way to remember all this information?!?! And you included that too <3 :D
Young Jun Lee
Yay!
Josh
I'm so glad you're working on this! It's incredibly important and I'm glad you're on the case.
Aeryn Light
Congrats!!
thepaperpilot
I've been following you since coming out simulator 2014, but hadn't been in a well enough spot to support your patreon until recently. After getting your email about part 0+1 I immediately signed up, and it's been really interesting reading through the backlog. I'm so sorry the past several years have been so difficult. Really glad to be here alongside you though! If you don't mind answering an off topic question, I was wondering if you were considering a "hub" of nutshells, a la explorabl.es. I love the idea of being able to reference definitions and explanations created on other sites, but ideally those should have their own nested explanations of any prerequisite ideas, and I figure having a list of existing explanations that use nutshell would help nutshell users link to those rather than, say, Wikipedia
Sorden
Ooh, I've been looking forward to this one!
Parker Bond
Thank you for these in depth pieces! Side Note: have you read Scythe? It's one of the few books that has a superintelligent AI that isn't the main antagonist and is a great window into what positive AI could be like
