Peter McCluskey
@petermccluskey.bsky.social
Stock market speculator, aspiring rationalist, hiker.
I recommend Heretical Fishing. It's like a Discworld novel with Twoflower as a protagonist.
May 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I recommend Heretical Fishing. It's like a Discworld novel with Twoflower as a protagonist.
I've been creating prediction markets on Manifold in order to better predict AI strategies. Please trade them.
E.g.: Will prioritizing corrigible AI produce safe results?
See manifold.markets/PeterMcClusk...
E.g.: Will prioritizing corrigible AI produce safe results?
See manifold.markets/PeterMcClusk...
Peter McCluskey (@PeterMcCluskey)
manifold.markets
March 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I've been creating prediction markets on Manifold in order to better predict AI strategies. Please trade them.
E.g.: Will prioritizing corrigible AI produce safe results?
See manifold.markets/PeterMcClusk...
E.g.: Will prioritizing corrigible AI produce safe results?
See manifold.markets/PeterMcClusk...
Darren McKee's book "Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World" is a great introduction for beginners. See my full review at bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.p...
Uncontrollable
Book review: Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World, by Darren McKee. This is by far the best introduction to AI risk for people who know little a…
bayesianinvestor.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Darren McKee's book "Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World" is a great introduction for beginners. See my full review at bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.p...
Openwater has an interesting technology for treating cancer. See my blog for more:
bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.p...
bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.p...
Openwater’s Cancer Treatment
The standout announcement from the recent Foresight Vision Weekend came from Openwater, who presented a novel cancer treatment. I’ve been a bit slow to write about it, in part because my init…
bayesianinvestor.com
January 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Openwater has an interesting technology for treating cancer. See my blog for more:
bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.p...
bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.p...
I have a blog post on why it's important to prioritize corrigibility as the goal of AIs:
www.lesswrong.com/posts/CPziGa...
www.lesswrong.com/posts/CPziGa...
Corrigibility should be an AI's Only Goal — LessWrong
TL;DR: • * Corrigibility is a simple and natural enough concept that a prosaic AGI can likely be trained to obey it.
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* AI labs are on track to…
www.lesswrong.com
December 30, 2024 at 8:25 PM
I have a blog post on why it's important to prioritize corrigibility as the goal of AIs:
www.lesswrong.com/posts/CPziGa...
www.lesswrong.com/posts/CPziGa...
I wrote some thoughts on markets and the election here: bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.p...
Markets and the Election
Here are some scattered comments about the 2024 elections. I was glad to have Manifold Markets and Election Betting Odds to watch the results. I want numbers, not encumbered by the storytellers and…
bayesianinvestor.com
November 11, 2024 at 12:15 AM
I wrote some thoughts on markets and the election here: bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.p...