Typos:
The ‘test’ be in your appointed cell --> is to be
So learned I could take the AP tests anyway --> So I learned
Curated Posts
Follow-up to: Fake Frameworks, Kenshō
Related to: Slack, Newcomblike Problems are the Norm
Previously titled: The Real-World Omega (see thes
Previously: Something Was Wrong, Book Review: The Elephant in the Brain
Previously (Compass R... (Read More)
Sure. But that’s not the claim being made, is it? The claim is that the system is just terrible, for basically everyone, and that it would be best to just burn it down wholesale. And that’s silly. Let me be clear about something. The high school that I went to (which, again, I am 99% certai...(read more)
Even if you are correct, this still points to a massive failing.
Lets say 95% of students feel as you feel. My feelings on primary and secondary school are more upset and angry than Zvi has expressed here, and had about twenty people in my graduating class; perhaps every other student in my class l...(read more)
If you are a software engineer living in the United States, you are probably underpaid. (If you are a software engineering living outside the United States, this is probably still true, but I have no idea what market conditions are like o... (Read More)
Because I'm not sure what the motivations behind asking trivia questions are, I don't know for sure how your answer would be perceived. That is likely how I would answer a question about an API I wasn't familiar with, though filters are more of a structural aspect of .NET MVC than an API (though it'...(read more)
Nice. I have a question and a couple of suggestions:
* Company that currently employs me doesn't expect candidates to know answers to "trivia" questions. During interviews we allow candidates to make up any reasonable API they might want to use. Do you think answer like "I didn't use Filter() in ...(read more)
In fact, all of my jobs (3 in total) until the current one had placed very lenient demands on my time. I think it's more of a management/operational issue, though. While I won't deny that I can solve some problems fast, most of the downtime was from an inefficient work pipeline.
It is with sadness and regret of the loss of life that I inform you that Kathy Forth has passed away.
She will be remembered at the solstices and forever in our hearts as someone trying to make the world a better place in the ways they bel... (Read More)
> Let's change for her, please?
My guess is that you're writing this comment both from a place of mourning Kathy's death, honouring her life, and wanting our community to be a better place that doesn't make people feel lonely and isolated, and I really respect that.
That being said, I think that t...(read more)
She asked my advice on how to do creative work on AI safety, on facebook. I gave her advice as best I could.
She seemed earnest and nice. I am sorry for your loss.
We disagreed a great deal, but with her unwavering epistemic virtue, she won my respect and my admiration. She was part of my something to protect.
"\[The rationalist community\] is \[my\] genuine ethnicity if not something more like a family. A super dysfunctional highly abusive family."
"I just ...(read more)
We (Zvi Mowshowitz and Vladimir Slepnev) are happy to announce the results of the second round of the AI Alignment Prize, funded by ... (Read More)
I think you want to reward output rather than output that would not have otherwise happened.
This is similar to the fact that if you want to train calibration, you have to optimize you log score and just observe your lack of calibration as an opportunity to increase your log score.
BERI seems like the kind of organization that would be happy to help with this.
My take on this is that the ideal version of this prize selects for both usefulness and counterfactualness, but selecting for counterfactualness without producing weird side effects seems hard. (I do think it's worth spending an hour or two thinking about how to properly incentivize or reward counte...(read more)
What is voting theory?
Voting theory, also called social choice theory, is the study of the design and evaulation of democratic voting methods (that's the activists' word; game theorists call them "voting mechanisms"... (Read More)
http://www.lse.ac.uk/website-archive/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2011/04/VotingSystems.aspx
Thanks for writing this! Very informative.
I saw a paper (which I don't remember enough about to find, unfortunately) in which a bunch of voting theorists got together and voted on the best voting method, using approval voting (I think?), and the winner was approval voting. I wonder if anyone also ...(read more)
Certainly, that's a reasonable point of view to take. If you fully embrace utilitarianism, that's a "solution" (at least in a normative sense) for what you call problem (1). In that case, your problem (2) is in fact separate and posterior.
I don't fully embrace utilitarianism. In my view, if you re...(read more)
What is the internal experience of playing the role? Where does it come from? Is there even a coherent category of internal experience that lines up with this, or is it a pattern that shows up only in aggregate?
\[The rest of this comment is mostly me musing.\] For example, when people in a room la...(read more)