(Background fluff for a novel I'm working on and previously posted parts of. Fishing for beta readers/technical consultants again. Near-future setting that's already had one major X-risk scare, didn't learn the first time.) The SIGMI Commission, in coordination with public signatory agencies and private partners, outlines the following eligibility criteria...
Video games are good, but Magic the Gathering is the best general IQ test I've ever seen.
(Yes, it's available in video game form, MTG Arena is one of the better F2P games out there. The game UX handles more of the rules for you, which limits some IQ-testing, but still a good translation.)
How quickly people pick up the game, how quickly they achieve competitive competency, and whether they can reach the highest level of mastery are all good illustrations of IQ.
Unlike Chess, Go, or Poker, which are purely abstract. MTG has a large amount of language skill involved. Rules text and card text are best interpreted as legal texts. It tests Bayesian reasoning, unlike purely deterministic games. There is a wide skillset to test, from deck construction limited play to reading opponents. The game is constantly refreshed with new cards, sets, and rules to learn.
(Background fluff for a novel I'm working on and previously posted parts of. Fishing for beta readers/technical consultants again. Near-future setting that's already had one major X-risk scare, didn't learn the first time.)
The SIGMI Commission, in coordination with public signatory agencies and private partners, outlines the following eligibility criteria for admission of the Certified Exascale Integrated Diagnostic Exploration (CEIDE) examination. Candidates must have a minimum of eight years cumulative, full-time work experience across four or more Incorporated Machine Intelligences domains:
Gonna try to break this up into 0-4 and 5-8 without breaking the Sequence, while also inserting the edits.
Edits for readability and to crank Jack's jerk level from 11 to 13.
Fixed multiple instances of truly terrible writing in Chapter 8. It somehow dodged edits in earlier passes.
Substantive edits to Chapter 16 to hopefully improve readability and flow.
Just realized I put the wrong chapter numbers in the heading, fixed.
Next few chapters are need serious edits; probably only going to be posting two at a time from now on.
The poker game idea came directly from ideas on this forum and a Lex Fridman podcast. It's on the to-do list to ramp up the tension in that scene a little bit more, but the idea of Alain freaking out during a very low-stakes game for diagnostic purposes amused me.
Considering moving this to Substack or Medium, but will probably leave this here for a while to see if there's interest.
Was "LessWrong" always meant as a gradient descent pun?
Did Eliezer (or whoever coined the name) intentionally choose it as an implicit machine learning reference? Or is this just a case of convergent evolution between model optimization and rationality?
It'd be approximately equally funny either way, so I'm not sure which outcome I prefer.