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AI model weights as humanity's last hope after global disaster

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This post explores the hypothetical scenario of a global disaster that wipes out all human progress, leaving only the saved weights of a superintelligent model as humanity's last hope. It questions the fastest way to access this "oracle of intelligence" again, considering the need for advanced computing power and the potential acceleration offered by a mature science of mechanistic interpretability. AI

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AI model weights as humanity's last hope after global disaster

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  1. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · David Litman ·

    All progress from the past millennium gets destroyed in a global disaster. But we have one shot at salvation. We saved the trillions of weights of a superintelligent model that can guide us to abundance: what is the quickest path to accessing that oracle of intelligence again?

    <p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Obviously humans doing arithmetic is too slow. What kind of computers do we build and how much compute do we really need? Progress will compound as we access more of the intelligence.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A matu…

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