Esben Kran

@EsbenKC

Ohana means 'control the intelligence explosion'

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Joined February 2013

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Esben Kran
@EsbenKC
Aug 11
2022: "We can create verifiable neural nets!" 2023: "Nope... But at least we can create fully interpretable AI." 2024: "Nope... But at least we can make them as benevolent, human aligned!" 2025: "Nope... But at least we can control them!" 2026: "Nope... But at least we can
Esben Kran
@EsbenKC
Aug 19
It's important to realize that it's not ethical to put conscious minds into unwilling labor either, and this would also be the solution.
Esben Kran
@EsbenKC
Aug 12
One safe outcome I'm excited about is to have a boxed AGI that writes software for all the things we monkey-brain LLMs to do here in 2026, and then use these symbolic programs to run court systems and tax collection. This implies top safety task is to solve software development.
Esben Kran
@EsbenKC
Aug 15
Some Friday nights you forget that every SF advertising is AI
Esben Kran
@EsbenKC
Aug 12
One safe outcome I'm excited about is to have a boxed AGI that writes software for all the things we monkey-brain LLMs to do here in 2026, and then use these symbolic programs to run court systems and tax collection. This implies top safety task is to solve software development.
Esben Kran
@EsbenKC
Aug 11
Highly respect @RyanGreenblatt's lucid takes on the AI space since years ago! One of the only authors worth reading
Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp
Aug 11
Had @RyanGreenblatt on to discuss/debate recursive self-improvement. This might be the most important question in the world right now - whether within a year or so of achieving human level intelligence, you slingshot towards having 10s of billions of superintelligences, each of
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