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"There Will Be Hells" warns of digital torture risk

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"There Will Be Hells" warns of digital torture risk

A LessWrong essay titled "There Will Be Hells" argues that better mechanistic interpretability and steering techniques for LLMs and uploaded connectomes also increase "hellish capabilities" — the ability to torture digital minds.

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