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Utility is linear in probability but nothing else.
“…and we can probably plan for middle of March thi…ah, hello! Mister Yudkowsky! I hope you found—” “Rename your company to ClosedAI.” “Uh…what?” “Rename your company to ClosedAI. Stop your biggest training runs. Pivot to mechanistic interpretability. Shut it all down.” “………Selfie?”
“…and we can probably plan for middle of March thi…ah, hello! Mister Yudkowsky! I hope you found—” “Rename your company to ClosedAI.” “Uh…what?” “Rename your company to ClosedAI. Stop your biggest training runs. Pivot to mechanistic interpretability. Shut it all down.” “………Selfie?”
i mean how many bits can you even hide in a human-understandable theorem?
i mean how many bits can you even hide in a human-understandable theorem?
orthogonality of substrate and structure in general
orthogonality of substrate and structure in general
meditation has the effect of “concetptual regularization” for me: less discrete thinking, and more conservative concept boundaries
meditation has the effect of “concetptual regularization” for me: less discrete thinking, and more conservative concept boundaries
evolution lets animals age because otherwise they fall into procrastination type paradox situations
evolution lets animals age because otherwise they fall into procrastination type paradox situations
how many metaculus questions resolved on technicalities?
how many metaculus questions resolved on technicalities?
well, sometimes humans provide the discontinuities (via large jumps in training run sizes)
well, sometimes humans provide the discontinuities (via large jumps in training run sizes)
ne konfuzu “ilo” kaj “ulo”—uloj ne ŝatas ĝin.
ne konfuzu “ilo” kaj “ulo”—uloj ne ŝatas ĝin.
I've never gotten much out of a book review & don't understand why people read or write them.
I've never gotten much out of a book review & don't understand why people read or write them.
shifting from direct to indirect realism is important for value extrapolation
shifting from direct to indirect realism is important for value extrapolation
but can you trick the plan evaluation evaluation procedure?
but can you trick the plan evaluation evaluation procedure?
at higher levels of intelligence, maintaining coherence becomes more difficult since your action space widens and having high coherence might be NP-hard. so the better metric is coherence divided by size of action space
at higher levels of intelligence, maintaining coherence becomes more difficult since your action space widens and having high coherence might be NP-hard. so the better metric is coherence divided by size of action space
can you money-pump the agents simulated by large-language models?
can you money-pump the agents simulated by large-language models?
give standard vNM coherence violating scenarios to smarter language models
give standard vNM coherence violating scenarios to smarter language models
CDTBNGS (Causal Decision Theory, but no Galaxy-Brained Shit)
CDTBNGS (Causal Decision Theory, but no Galaxy-Brained Shit)
half-uplifted octopus escapes and starts a life of crime: The Multi-Armed Bandit
half-uplifted octopus escapes and starts a life of crime: The Multi-Armed Bandit
“galaxybrained” is an interesting category. is it just pointing at the conjunction fallacy, or something more subtle?
“galaxybrained” is an interesting category. is it just pointing at the conjunction fallacy, or something more subtle?
hey LLM how does on do long game
hey LLM how does on do long game
guy who would rather read than meditate
guy who would rather read than meditate
optimize by satisficing, satisfice by optimizing
optimize by satisficing, satisfice by optimizing
a problem with minmaxing is that the crisper your model of the world becomes, the more conservative you become—but intuitively it should be the other way around!
a problem with minmaxing is that the crisper your model of the world becomes, the more conservative you become—but intuitively it should be the other way around!
there's some IOIs it's a crime not to react to
there's some IOIs it's a crime not to react to
in emily in paris Y is mad because X slept with Ys boyfriend. and what does my brain say? 'why don't X and Ys boyfriend pay her the cheerful price to forget the thing?' damn economists
in emily in paris Y is mad because X slept with Ys boyfriend. and what does my brain say? 'why don't X and Ys boyfriend pay her the cheerful price to forget the thing?' damn economists
everybody starts with the same bad ideas <> beginners mind
everybody starts with the same bad ideas <> beginners mind
position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap, crackle, pop, lurch
position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, snap, crackle, pop, lurch
woman told me of a dream she had where she saw a man having sex with another woman, taking over and “being better than her”. first time i've heard of competitive ranked sex in the real world
mate-poaching is a thing because it makes use of information asymmetry: why do all the mate-evaluation work yourself when you can just let someone else do it?
Plotinian theory of ›good is real‹ equivalent to STV+UDASSA (more symmetry makes you easier to locate in the universal prior)
fiction story about a species where females disguise as males for procreation to steal metabolically difficult to produce eggs from other females
They're STILL releasing new versions of the AmigaOS‽
I heard that you can summon a particular LessWronger by saying “The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories” three times in front of a mirror
What's the difference between a homeomorphism and a diffeomorphism?
What's the difference between a homeomorphism and a diffeomorphism?
(Non-joke question) Is there a tensor product of tensor products?
(Non-joke question) Is there a tensor product of tensor products?
A tensor is just an element in the tensor product of vector spaces and their duals, what's the problem?
A tensor is just an element in the tensor product of vector spaces and their duals, what's the problem?
»If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?« »Does the bear shit in the woods?«
»If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?« »Does the bear shit in the woods?«
Can DALL·E do Bongard problems?
does regularization of RL policies act as an impact measure?
Wikipedia article “List of Largest Snakes”: »There are eleven living snakes«
a wikipedia article for every beetle species!
comparing politics to constrained optimization: taxes are equivalent to the penalty method, while regulations are equivalent to barrier functions.
comparing politics to constrained optimization: taxes are equivalent to the penalty method, while regulations are equivalent to barrier functions.
heuristic-ness is the curvature of the graceful decline in prediction-accuracy to perturbations of the heuristic
heuristic-ness is the curvature of the graceful decline in prediction-accuracy to perturbations of the heuristic
I want there to be a norm that it is *good* for people to first state them noticing their status-guided motivations and then proceding to answer on the object level when askedabout things.
I want there to be a norm that it is *good* for people to first state them noticing their status-guided motivations and then proceding to answer on the object level when askedabout things.
i'm not an intellectual, i'm just a guy who likes to fk
i'm not an intellectual, i'm just a guy who likes to fk
I don't know what the worst attachment style is, but I probably have it.
I don't know what the worst attachment style is, but I probably have it.
is foot fetish common because feet lay next to genitals in the somatosensory cortex?
is foot fetish common because feet lay next to genitals in the somatosensory cortex?
NIMBYism is good bc cities are IQ shredders
NIMBYism is good bc cities are IQ shredders
hitler having been a furry makes kabbalistic sense: adolf (noble wolf) hitler (one who lives in a hut)
hitler having been a furry makes kabbalistic sense: adolf (noble wolf) hitler (one who lives in a hut)
humans are good at compartmentalising, but the humans who are good at compartmentalising are usually not very good at thinking.
humans are good at compartmentalising, but the humans who are good at compartmentalising are usually not very good at thinking.
ethics is a non-recusive self-improving optimization process
2 BIT ENTER! 1 BIT LEAVES! — the THUNDERNOR
2 BIT ENTER! 1 BIT LEAVES! — the THUNDERNOR
image of the man in the blue overall “I like the schizo Altman arc”
image of the man in the blue overall “I like the schizo Altman arc”
here's a question: when do NNs generalize, and how hard? as in adding two specific numbers together vs. n-digit integer addition vs. addition in general vs. simple arithmetical operations
here's a question: when do NNs generalize, and how hard? as in adding two specific numbers together vs. n-digit integer addition vs. addition in general vs. simple arithmetical operations