Existential Risks

AI x Crypto Risks, or: Is it TIME for Jail Szn?

Anatoly Karlin / May 5, 2023

The cryptocurrency space can provision a putative malevolent AI with discrete decentralized compute, storage, and opportunities for secure accumulation of cryptographic assets and social capital. Consequently, there might be an AI Control Trilemma: Ban further AI software development; cap hardware; criminalize crypto – pick two.

AI Control, Cryptocurrencies, Existential Risks

AI Safety Debate with Roko

Anatoly Karlin / March 21, 2023

Twitter Space debate with Roko Mijic about feasibility and desirability of AI control.

AI, AI Control, e/acc, EA, Existential Risks

WAGMI: The %TOTAL Maximizer

Anatoly Karlin / November 4, 2021

Fictional short story in which an AI takes over the world by leveraging its financial dominance in the cryptocurrency space.

AI, Existential Risks, Science Fiction, Superintelligence

The Katechon Hypothesis

Anatoly Karlin / October 20, 2019

That Which Withholds Eschaton: The Katechon Hypothesis for Resolving the Fermi Paradox

Aliens, Existential Risks, Katechon Hypothesis, Simulation