Jacob Buckman

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Jacob Buckman is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 20, 2022 and June 01, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “More salvos in AI scaling conversation: Jacob Buckman on naive scaling and on failure cases”; “Jacob Buckman on how we “aren’t close” to creating self-improving AI”. It most often appears alongside 2006 IAU vote, 9/11, Abacha.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: June 20, 2022
  • Last seen: June 01, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

June 20, 2022 · Original source
1: More salvos in AI scaling conversation: Jacob Buckman on naive scaling and on failure cases.
June 01, 2023 · Original source
Jacob Buckman on how we “aren’t close” to creating self-improving AI (yes, but we “weren’t close” to creating GPT-4 five years ago!), and Steven Byrnes on how to reason about AI danger if this is true.