Fun Theory is the study of questions such as "How much fun is there in the universe?",
"Will we ever run out of fun?", "Are we having fun yet?" and "Could we be having
more fun?". It's relevant to designing utopias and AIs, among other things.
Date: Saturday, September 7th, 2024
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm PT
Address: Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, just outside the Metreon food court, coordinates 37°47'04.4"N 122°24'11.1"W
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Come join San Francisco’s First Saturday (or SFFS – easy to remember, right?) ACX meetup. Whether you're an avid reader, a first time reader, or just a curious soul, come meet! We will make introductions, talk about a recent ACX article (Matt Yglesias Considered As The Nietzschean Superman), and veer off into whatever topic you’d like to discuss. You can get food from one of the many neighbouring restaurants.
We relocate inside the food court if there is inclement weather, or too much noise/music outside.
I will carry a stuffed-animal green frog to help you identify the group. You can let me know you are coming by either RSVPing on LW or sending an email to 34251super@gmail.com, or you can also just show up!
Given that Biden has dropped out, do you believe that the market was accurately priced at the time?
(ramblingly) Does the No Free Lunch Theorem imply that there's no one single technique that would always work for AGI alignment? Initial thought is probably not, because the theorem states that the performance of all optimization algorithms are identical across all possible problems. However, AGI alignment is a subset of these problems.
Suppose you believe the following:
In this case, we seem to get something similar to "dust" in Greg Egan's Permutation City, where any sequence of events leading to the present you having your present memories could be considered the "real you".
However, the "conscious you" of your dreams does not have any special attachment or memory to the waking you. That is to say at least sometimes when...
you presumably also think that teleportation would only create copies while destroying the originals. You might then be hesitant to use teleportation.
As an aside, Holden's view of identity makes him unconcerned about this question, and I've gradually gotten round to it as well.
But also, if you predict a completion model where a very weak hash is followed by its pre-image, it will probably have learned to undo the hash, even though the source generation process never performed that (potentially much more complicated than the hashing function itself) operation, which means it’s not really a simulator.
I'm saying that this won't work with current systems at least for strong hash, because it's hard, and instead of learning to undo, the model will learn to simulate, because it's easier. And then you can vary the strength of hash to...
My assertion is that all utility functions (i.e., all functions that satisfy the 4 VNM axioms plus perhaps some additional postulates most of us would agree on) are static (do not change over time).
I should try to prove that, but I've been telling myself I should for months now, but haven't mustered the energy, so am posting the assertion now without proof because an weak argument posted now is better then a perfect argument that might never be posted.
I've never been tempted to distinguish between "the outside-of-time all-timepoints-included utility functi...
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Thanks for that. The "the fate of all mankind" line really throws me. without this line, everything I said above applies. Its existence (assuming that it exists, specificly refers to AI, and Xi really means it) is some evidence towards him thinking that it's important. I guess it just doesn't square with the intuitions I've built for him as someone not particularly bright or sophisiticated. Being convinced by good arguments does not seem to be one of his strong suits.
Edit: forgot to mention that I tried and failed to find the text of the guide itself.
I have never been more ready for Some Football.
Have I learned all about the teams and players in detail? No, I have been rather busy, and have not had the opportunity to do that, although I eagerly await Seth Burn’s Football Preview. I’ll have to do that part on the fly.
But oh my would a change of pace and chance to relax be welcome. It is time.
The debate over SB 1047 has been dominating for weeks. I’ve now said my peace on the bill and how it works, and compiled the reactions in support and opposition. There are two small orders of business left for the weekly. One is the absurd Chamber of Commerce ‘poll’ that is the equivalent of a pollster asking if you support John...
Also, the guy is spamming his post about spamming applications into all the subreddits, which gives the whole thing a great meta twist, I wonder if he’s using AI for that too.
I'm pretty sure I saw what must be the same account, posting blatantly AI generated replies/answers across a ton of different subreddits, including at least some that explicitly disallow that.
Either that or someone else's bot was spamming AI answer comments while also spamming copycat "I applied to 1000 jobs with AI" posts.