Could a Global Dictatorship Last Forever?
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Could a totalitarian regime conquer the entire world and lock in its power forever?
This is a particular type of unrecoverable dystopia: a future in which humanity survives, but forever loses its potential to grow and flourish.
In this video, we explore which technologies might make this possibility more likely, but also how we might shape technological development in order to prevent it, without giving up the global coordination we need against threats like misaligned AI and engineered pandemics.
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If you care about global issues like preventing stable totalitarianism, creating safe AI systems, preventing pandemics and addressing nuclear risks - but you feel like you can’t contribute through your career - one way that you can help tackle these types of threats is by donating to charities and projects that are working on these problems.
Giving What We Can has vetted a list of charities and funds from expert charity evaluators and grant makers, so that you can help fund research and initiatives designed to address these huge – and incredibly difficult – global risks.
You do have the power to make a difference.
Learn more and donate at https://givingwhatwecan.org/rational
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The Precipice and unrecoverable dystopia: https://theprecipice.com/
World empires and colonies in 1914: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:...
Printing and the spread of the Reformation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforma...
Printing and Protestants: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cg...
European wars of religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea...
Censorship in the Russian Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censors...
Das Kapital Comes to Russia: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2493377
LLMs and mass censorship: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oqvsR...
Reconstructing language from brain activity (Nature Neuroscience): https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
Brain activity decoder (UT Austin): https://cns.utexas.edu/news/podcast/b...
Brain-computer interfaces as an existential risk: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/p...
Privacy-preserving COVID exposure notifications: https://www.google.com/covid19/exposu...
The mixed success of COVID exposure-notification apps: https://www.newamerica.org/pit/briefs...
Democracy and long-term risk: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/p...
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Could a Global Dictatorship Last Forever?
Rational Animations
1,224,856 views
Could a totalitarian regime conquer the entire world and lock in its power forever?
This is a particular type of unrecoverable dystopia: a future in which humanity survives, but forever loses its potential to grow and flourish.
In this video, we explore which technologies might make this possibility more likely, but also how we might shape technological development in order to prevent it, without giving up the global coordination we need against threats like misaligned AI and engineered pandemics.
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If you care about global issues like preventing stable totalitarianism, creating safe AI systems, preventing pandemics and addressing nuclear risks - but you feel like you can’t contribute through your career - one way that you can help tackle these types of threats is by donating to charities and projects that are working on these problems.
Giving What We Can has vetted a list of charities and funds from expert charity evaluators and grant makers, so that you can help fund research and initiatives designed to address these huge – and incredibly difficult – global risks.
You do have the power to make a difference.
Learn more and donate at https://givingwhatwecan.org/rational
▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀SOURCES & READINGS▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
The Precipice and unrecoverable dystopia: https://theprecipice.com/
World empires and colonies in 1914: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:...
Printing and the spread of the Reformation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforma...
Printing and Protestants: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cg...
European wars of religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea...
Censorship in the Russian Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censors...
Das Kapital Comes to Russia: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2493377
LLMs and mass censorship: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oqvsR...
Reconstructing language from brain activity (Nature Neuroscience): https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
Brain activity decoder (UT Austin): https://cns.utexas.edu/news/podcast/b...
Brain-computer interfaces as an existential risk: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/p...
Privacy-preserving COVID exposure notifications: https://www.google.com/covid19/exposu...
The mixed success of COVID exposure-notification apps: https://www.newamerica.org/pit/briefs...
Democracy and long-term risk: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/p...
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The beautiful team who created this video: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H...
Giving What We Can has vetted a list of charities and funds from expert charity evaluators and grantmakers, so that you can help fund research and initiatives designed to address huge and incredibly difficult global risks such as stable totalitarianism, misaligned AI, pandemics, and nuclear weapons. Not everyone can work on these problems directly, but you don't need to change your career to make a difference.