Estonian - Businessman | February 14, 1972 -
If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
Jaan Tallinn
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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I sometimes joke that I can take personal responsibility for saving one million human relationships.
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Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the community as it is now, to benefit a similar community in the future.
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I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.
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