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Interview with gwern
Legacy & Anonymity in the Age of AGI
And as part of my interest in transhumanism and LessWrong and AI risk, I was paying close attention to Legg’s blog postswherehe's extrapolating out the trend with updated numbers from Kurzweil and Moravec. I'm sure you're aware that many people comment on the fact that ‘if Gwern put the effort he spends optimizing the CSS on his website towards more projects and more writing, the benefits to society could be measured in the nearest million dollars’. Depending on whether you like me or hate me, either I am the god of statistics & referencing who can do no wrong—”Just take everything on the site as gospel!”, which I really dislike—or I'm just some sort of horrible, covert, malicious, neo-Nazi, eugenicist, totalitarian, communist, anti-Chinese devil figure lurking in the background trying to bring down Western society.
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