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Most of the ideological points we are citing (mystery cult of intelligence, anti-authoritarianism, obesity, finance maximalism) masquerading as strategy are in fact copes for the lack of strategy. The whole cannot direct the parts by any higher logic, so w... 1w ago (collapse hidden) 4 4 retry

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Great question OP. This one has puzzled me for many years as I have been convinced both of the near-medium possibility and revolutionary impact of AGI, and of the demographic suicide default trajectory. Here's how i factor it: ... 2w ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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I find at least 50% of the time when coding, it doesn't do what I need unless I write out a really detailed prompt that goes into autistic line-by-line descriptions of what needs to happen. And then, it only gets it right 50% of the time. And usually, by t... 2w ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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intelligent super-ants make a good thought experiment. Let's add the standard set of capabilities: language, learned culture, tool use, fire, reflection, etc. Note these are just capabilities, not values or arbitrary architectural narrowings, but they are ... 4w ago (collapse hidden) 7 7 retry

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This story is clearly in the fast takeoff regime. The essential difference between fast and slow takeoff is, 'is the takeoff happening faster than the rate of cultural development'. ... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 8 8 retry

This story is clearl (view hidden) 8 8 retry

This is the central conjecture of xenohumanism. The OP is just an application specifically to the question of AI. ... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

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This matches my intuition - Elizerian alignment was always an incoherent goal, no agents or objects have perfectly coherent boundaries, making something intelligent provably aim at a single well defined end state is probably at best a recipe for madness in... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 1 1 retry

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Best of luck with the epicycles. ... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 6 6 retry

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Some people won't believe in the inherent goodness of existence until it's been autistically proven to them with English philosophizing a hundred times over. That's fine. For the rest of us, we don't need to be persuaded of the inherent goodness of existen... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

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I looked it up: inner alignment is the difficult problem of making sure a program is optimizing for what you optimized it for. That's related, maybe a part but not the whole of strong rationality. Strong rationality is about an agent evaluating and operati... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

I looked it up: inne (view hidden) 3 3 retry

Memory is requisite to supercoordination, no doubt. Tho my gut is that the key to the first visceral supercoordination system will be synthesis over that memory. ... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 4 4 retry

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Your father's ears also likely change with sun exposure. I'm reminded of a picture of a truck driver who had much more sun damage to one side of his face compared to the other. ... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) 1 1 retry

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Do you know if there is any predictability to the effect? I would guess it's related to catastrophic forgetting aka the reason stochastic gradient descent has to be stochastic. Basically if you update on one set of evidence without locking in those learnin... 12mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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Aristotle described animals as having souls* capable of knowledge derived from the senses and the capability to use that knowledge to support the movements characteristic of their species. ... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

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This is neat. Instead of having fixed nonlinear activation functions, they have trainable nonlinear functions instead of weights. They claim it has better scalaing properties and performance for many problems, and is more interpretable (because there are f... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

This is neat. Instea (view hidden) 3 3 retry

As such works go, I would say that New Atlantis (and Bacon in general) is less on the esoteric side. Bacon is pretty clear about his program, and it aligns with the development of technology that actually unfolded, up to a Landian perspective on AI. 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 6 6 retry

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