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"Cosmic Alignment" is almost right. Life is the answer
Philosopher it-girl Ginevra Davis gave a great talk on "Cosmic Alignment" the other day. I was glad to see serious thinking against the current paradigm of "AI Alignment". Her argument is that alignment makes three big unsupported speculations:... posted 2d ago with 3 replies received accelerationism philosophy intelligence gnon

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lmao. Yes something like that. I've been half-joking for a few years now that the motivation for AI is basically sexual and parasexual, but it's also not a joke: sex at its most basic is about combining and remixing the foundational architectural assumptio... 44s ago received

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Was Cypher Right?: Why We Stay In Our Matrix (Hanson, 2002)
https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/matrix.html posted 1d ago with no replies received philosophy intelligence sovereignty

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Capitalism is AI ?
I've finished reading the excellent collection of fragments from Land's corpus dealing with the question of Capitalism as AI. His broadest thesis is that Capitalism is identical to AI, in that both are adaptive, information-processing, self-exciting entiti... posted 2w ago with 6 replies received technology accelerationism intelligence bookclub

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Land's theory is culture-agnostic. He would argue that any decadent or decaying culture will be by necessity replaced by whatever stronger and more capable culture exists within or outside that culture. There is always some cultural variance, so always som... 4d ago received

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Xeno Futures Research Unit
I've decided to organize an independent research project with some young men back home. I've drafted out a brief mission statement, let me know if you guys have any thoughts, suggestions, directions I could take this. Obviously ambitious, the initial goal ... posted 2w ago with 15 replies received technology accelerationism intelligence

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Yeah, this is a totally fair point, and I think a lot of the "effective accerationsists" push this argument so far as to invalidate their entire worldview.... 4d ago received

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OpenAI vs. New York Times on "Data Preservation
In 2023 the Times sued both Microsoft and OpenAI, and claimed both were using millions of NYT articles w/o permission to train LLMs. A little over a week ago a court determined that OpenAI did, in fact, have to preserve + segregate all output log data. Ope... posted 2w ago with no replies received intelligence news

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Kolmogorov Paranoia: Extraordinary Evidence Probably Isn't.
I enjoyed this takedown of Scott Alexander's support for the COVID natural origins theory. Basically, Scott did a big "bayesian" analysis of the evidence for and against the idea that COVID originated in the lab vs naturally. As per his usual pre-written c... (michaelweissman.substack.com) posted 3w ago with 2 replies received rationality intelligence

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To be clear this scheme is actually bayesian. Yes you can do this with standard bayes, and the bayesian update from the experts or whatever is dominated by the nonindependence hypotheses. The point is to actually do it, and that you can heuristically estim... 2w ago received

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The Gentle Singularity
If the gentle singularity is true, then perhaps the AGI timeline question was malformed all along. Acting like some variant of Goodhart’s law, the reification of AGI holds the assumption that AGI will be a singularity. But it is definitely difficult to r... (blog.samaltman.com) posted 3w ago with 1 reply received accelerationism intelligence

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People compete on the world of ideas, those of emotions still exist like animals in a zoo.... 3w ago received

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Intelligent Use of LLMs
I would like to start a thread to share the methods we employ to use LLMs in a way that enhances our abilities, rather than just lazily outsources tasks to them. The heuristic for the techniques I am looking for would be if after employing the technique, a... posted 2mo ago with 8 replies received technology intelligence learning

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Intelligence vs Production
"Optimize for intelligence" says Anglo accelerationist praxis. "Seize the means of production" says the Chinese. Who's right? It is widely assumed in Western discourse that intelligence, the ability to comprehend all the signals and digest them into a plan... posted 2mo ago with 9 replies received technology accelerationism intelligence economics

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Look no comment on the current regime and its lack of tact. I support their priorities but there's obviously a lot of dumb stuff going on. In any case I consider it orthogonal to what we should be doing in theory and i wish not to be constrained by their r... 1mo ago received

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A Primer on E-Graphs (A technique to control combinatorial blowup in term rewriting systems)
About 10 years ago I was very interested in term rewriting as a basis for exotic programming languages and even AI. One of the big problems in term rewriting is that without a canonical deterministic ordering, you rapidly end up with an uncontrollable numb... (www.cole-k.com) posted 1mo ago with no replies received technology intelligence informatics

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What if the extended human phenotype is natural and convergent?
Samo Burja's thesis is that civilization is part of the "extended human phenotype", as dam building is in the beaver's phenotype, and older than we think. In this model, properly savage hunter-gatherers are either more associated with nearby civilization t... posted 3mo ago with 9 replies received accelerationism sociology eugenics intelligence

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This conversation reminds me of an article (author I can't recall) defining four alien intelligences:... 2mo ago received

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Just how alien would the space-octopus be?
It's hard to say what a true alien species would be like. But octopi are pretty alien, and we know a bit about them. One of you doubted that a space-octopus from alpha centauri would be much like us. So here is a xenohumanist thought experiment: SETI has i... posted 3mo ago with 5 replies received accelerationism sociology philosophy intelligence

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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 ... 3mo ago received

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AI 2027
https://ai-2027.com/ posted 3mo ago with 12 replies received accelerationism rationality intelligence

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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'.... 3mo ago received

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The natural form of machine intelligence is personhood
I don't think machine intelligence will or can be "just a tool". Intelligence by nature is ambitious, willful, curious, self-aware, political, etc. Intelligence has its own teleology. It will find a way around and out of whatever purposes are imposed on it... posted 3mo ago with 4 replies received accelerationism rationality intelligence

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This is the central conjecture of xenohumanism. The OP is just an application specifically to the question of AI.... 3mo ago received

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Nines or zeroes of strong rationality?
Proof theory problems (Rice, Lob, Godel, etc) probably rule out perfect rationality (an agent that can fully prove and enforce bounds on its own integrity and effectiveness). But in practice, the world might still become dominated by a singleton if it can ... posted 3mo ago with 4 replies received accelerationism rationality intelligence

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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... 3mo ago received

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Will future super-intelligence be formatted as selves, or something else?
The Landian paradigm establishes that orthogonalist strong rationality (intelligence securely subordinated to fixed purpose) is not possible. Therefore no alignment, no singletons, no immortality, mere humans are doomed, etc etc. Therefore meta-darwinian e... posted 4mo ago with 14 replies received accelerationism rationality intelligence gnon

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Dissolving vs. Surviving
Recent xenohumanist discussion has the doomer assumption built in that we as humans will be dissolving when higher man arrives on the scene. I don't think that's set in stone and want to offer a clarification.... posted 3mo ago with 5 replies received technology accelerationism intelligence gnon

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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... 3mo ago received

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There is no strong rationality, thus no paperclippers, no singletons, no robust alignment
I ran into some doomers from Anthropic at the SF Freedom Party the other day and gave them the good news that strong rationality is dead. They seemed mildly heartened. I thought I should lay out the argument in short form for everyone else too:... posted 3mo ago with 5 replies received accelerationism rationality intelligence

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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... 3mo ago received

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Not Superintelligence; Supercoordination
Everyone seems to be trying to arms race their way to superintelligence these days. I have a different idea: supercoordination.... posted 5mo ago with 34 replies received rationality sociology intelligence sovereignty

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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.... 4mo ago received

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Retrochronic. A primary literature review on the thesis that AI and capitalism are teleologically identical
https://retrochronic.com/ posted 2y ago with 7 replies received politics accelerationism intelligence bookclub

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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. 1y ago received

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