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Discussion of concrete near-to-middle term trends in AI

Instead of prognosticating on AGI/Strong AI/Singularities, I'd like to discuss more concrete advancements to expect in the near-term in AI.

What false beliefs have you held and why were you wrong?

What is something you used to believe, preferably something concrete with direct or implied predictions, that you now know was dead wrong. W

HPMOR hypothesis: Harry will use Timeless Decision Theory to resolve some of the time-turner paradoxes

Evidence: 1. The obsession with precise times in the last few chapters, the prominence of time-turners in the plot in general, and Har

What legal ways do people make a profit that produce the largest net loss in utility?

This is an offshoot of a thread I made earlier, but which wasn't eliciting the sort of responses I'd hoped for. So let me pose a clearer q

What is the most anti-altruistic way to spend a million dollars?

Edit: The purpose of this question is not to make the world worse, but to see whether we actually have concrete ideas of what would, and my

How to Study Unsafe AGI's safely (and why we might have no choice)

TL;DR A serious possibility is that the first AGI(s) will be developed in a Manhattan Project style setting before any sort of friendlines