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i innoculated myself against emacs by first & only playing tetris in it
Niplav Yushtun™: A Large Variety of Extremely Good Posts
I need to find evidence for/against the claim that there was a training run of GPT-2 that maximized negative log-loss – I've heard it a couple of times on the internet and already spread the meme myself, but I haven't seen it in a paper or blogpost
I need to find evidence for/against the claim that there was a training run of GPT-2 that maximized negative log-loss – I've heard it a couple of times on the internet and already spread the meme myself, but I haven't seen it in a paper or blogpost
@movq "How does one interpret those numbers? Does it mean that people usually died at about 30 years or is that really an average, meaning lots of children died but those who survived still reached something like 70 years?" -> It's the mean, so there is a lot of bias in there w/r to infant mortality. I don't know about median age of death.
@movq "How does one interpret those numbers? Does it mean that people usually died at about 30 years or is that really an average, meaning lots of children died but those who survived still reached something like 70 years?" -> It's the mean, so there is a lot of bias in there w/r to infant mortality. I don't know about median age of death.
mathematics is the science of the infinite, computer science is the science of the finite
mathematics is the science of the infinite, computer science is the science of the finite
if you tickle a sub, is the result a bottom contraction?
if you tickle a sub, is the result a bottom contraction?
what kind of job does one do if one is exceptionally motivated to (and reasonably good at) organising physical objects?
what kind of job does one do if one is exceptionally motivated to (and reasonably good at) organising physical objects?
alternative formulation of orthogonality hypothesis: the size of the space of possible goals for an agent correlates positively, rather than negatively, with an agent's optimization power
alternative formulation of orthogonality hypothesis: the size of the space of possible goals for an agent correlates positively, rather than negatively, with an agent's optimization power
note: the previous twt does _not_ assert the equivalence of these ideas.
note: the previous twt does _not_ assert the equivalence of these ideas.
The Orthogonality Hypothesis is obviously true, the Factored Cognition hypothesis is obviously false, and who can tell about the Fundamental Theorem of Finite Factored Sets?
The Orthogonality Hypothesis is obviously true, the Factored Cognition hypothesis is obviously false, and who can tell about the Fundamental Theorem of Finite Factored Sets?
learning pickup is rewriting your life-history strategy
learning pickup is rewriting your life-history strategy
a pride flag for heterosexual men who don't like women
a pride flag for heterosexual men who don't like women
what is the value of knowing the action of a more powerful optimizer in a single universe-state?
what is the value of knowing the action of a more powerful optimizer in a single universe-state?
kind of insane that the average life expectancy in 1800 was nearly half as much as the one in the country with the lowest life expectancy today (28.5 years then, 50.7 years today in Lesotho)
kind of insane that the average life expectancy in 1800 was nearly half as much as the one in the country with the lowest life expectancy today (28.5 years then, 50.7 years today in Lesotho)
limited wireheaders seem safe but useless (modulo experimentability)
limited wireheaders seem safe but useless (modulo experimentability)
one might argue that we have huge amounts of uranium and other radioactive elements in the earth's crust already, and since we only extract energy from nuclear energy, putting the waste back should make the earth less dangerous, not more. but the isotopes produced in nuclear energy have shorter half-life and are probably more poisonous than the uranium that was there before, even if they produce less radioactivity over the long run
one might argue that we have huge amounts of uranium and other radioactive elements in the earth's crust already, and since we only extract energy from nuclear energy, putting the waste back should make the earth less dangerous, not more. but the isotopes produced in nuclear energy have shorter half-life and are probably more poisonous than the uranium that was there before, even if they produce less radioactivity over the long run
@adi "@niplav I got the joke!" -> Congrats! i didn't
@adi "@niplav I got the joke!" -> Congrats! i didn't
every wisepost can (but doesn't have to) be credited to carl shulman
every wisepost can (but doesn't have to) be credited to carl shulman
yes, I'm in favour of a combination of fusion power and solar (dyson sphere)
yes, I'm in favour of a combination of fusion power and solar (dyson sphere)
father (pointing at night sky): one day this all will be yours, son.
father (pointing at night sky): one day this all will be yours, son.
really mad about the death of the FAQ
really mad about the death of the FAQ
foq: (ten to the) fifty-one QALYs
bigword bigwords bigword2
bigword bigwords bigword2
guy who can't use a twitter account responsibly
guy who can't use a twitter account responsibly
age of em is transpositive send twt
age of em is transpositive send twt
just to make clear: people who actually identify as attack helicopters are unironically valid
just to make clear: people who actually identify as attack helicopters are unironically valid
the hardest sci-fi is just 22 pages of differential equations describing the dynamics of Omohundro sludge
the hardest sci-fi is just 22 pages of differential equations describing the dynamics of Omohundro sludge
I want you to spell out the context. like in porn
I want you to spell out the context. like in porn
maybe elites appear incompetent because they're mostly trying to prevent AI disaster behind the curtains? perhaps that's why GPT-4 hasn't appeared yet – they coordinated not to do it.
maybe elites appear incompetent because they're mostly trying to prevent AI disaster behind the curtains? perhaps that's why GPT-4 hasn't appeared yet – they coordinated not to do it.
maybe elites appear incompetent because they're mostly trying to prevent AI disaster behind the curtains? perhaps that's why GPT-4 hasn't appeared yet – they coordinated not to do it.
on the other hand, induction has also never worked before for anti-inductionists, so they might try it.
on the other hand, induction has also never worked before for anti-inductionists, so they might try it.
lol, just realised that standard AI risk is just environmental disaster risk amped up to 10^(10^10), only that the direct perpetrator isn't humanity (we're only the proximate perpetrator). huh
lol, just realised that standard AI risk is just environmental disaster risk amped up to 10^(10^10), only that the direct perpetrator isn't humanity (we're only the proximate perpetrator). huh
at some point you realise that david pearce is right about everything, nick cammarata is right about everything, andrés gomez emilsson is right about everything.
what,,, you are trying to do good? how about I complain about you wanting to do good, and accuse you of being evil, even though on further questioning I would agree your actions are at worst net-zero?
what,,, you are trying to do good? how about I complain about you wanting to do good, and accuse you of being evil, even though on further questioning I would agree your actions are at worst net-negative?
what,,, you are trying to do good? how about I complain about you wanting to do good, and accuse you of being evil, even though on further questioning I would agree your actions are at worst net-zero?
children are also just self-replicating probes
children are also just self-replicating probes
not a big fan of retributive justice, but considering the fact that mosquitoe-borne diseases have killed half of all humans that have ever lived, we might consider exterminating the fuckers just because they deserve it.
not a big fan of retributive justice, but considering the fact that mosquitoe-borne diseases have killed half of all humans that have ever lived, we might consider exterminating the fuckers just because they deserve it.
people who use kilowatt-hours of something should go fk themselves
people who use kilowatt-hours of something should go fk themselves
collecting large STEM datasets for training huge models a good step for avoiding human models?
collecting large STEM datasets for training huge models a good step for avoiding human models?
beating the ender dragon in minecraft with dying <100 times (but arbitrary training on video beforehand) seems like a nice candidate for another fire alarm (I wonder whether people would panic then, or whether that challenge is already AI-complete)
beating the ender dragon in minecraft with dying <100 times (but arbitrary training on video beforehand) seems like a nice candidate for another fire alarm (I wonder whether people would panic then, or whether that challenge is already AI-complete)
paradises, peacocks, peaches and palimpsests! Prussians, prowlers plus plumous penguins, priestess parks principles – priceless.
paradises, peacocks, peaches and palimpsests! Prussians, prowlers plus plumous penguins, priestess parks principles – priceless.
the existence of competence porn implies the existence of competence horniness
the existence of competence porn implies the existence of competence horniness
it is cold in the anthropic shadow.
it is cold in the anthropic shadow.
a bunch of money in celestial futures: long on angels, but the bulk put into ein sof
a bunch of money in celestial futures: long on angels, but the bulk put into ein sof
censors will censor complaints about being censored. therefore we should complain about censorship all the time – once those complaints disappear, we know things are going downhill.