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" (...) the term technical is a red flag for me, as it is many times used not for the routine business of implementing ideas but for the parts, ideas and all, which are just hard to understand and many times contain the main novelties." 
                                                                                                           - Saharon Shelah
"A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring"                                                                                                           - Alexander Pope

 

As a true-born Dutchman I endorse  Crocker's rules.

For my most of my writing see my short-forms (new shortform, old shortform)

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Singular Learning Theory
5Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel's Shortform
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johnswentworth's Shortform
Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel2d260

... and so at long last John found the answer to alignment

The answer was Love 

and it had always has been

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Anthropic's leading researchers acted as moderate accelerationists
Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel9d20

Does the appriopriate [soft] reference class scale with intersimulizability of agents? 
i.e. generally greater more computationally powerful agents are better at simulating other agents and this will generically push towards the regime where FDT gives a larger reference class. 

The asymptote would be some sort of acausal society of multiverse higher-order cooperators.

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Banning Said Achmiz (and broader thoughts on moderation)
Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel23d83-1

Fwiw I've found Said's comments to be clear, crisp and valuable. I don't recall being ever annoyed by his comments and found him a most useful bloodhound for bad epistemic practices and rhetorics. Many cases that Said's comment is the only good, clear, and crisp critic of vagueposting and applauselighting. 

The examples in this post don't seem compelling at all. One of the primary examples seems to be Duncan who comes off [from a distance] as thin-skinned and obscurantist, emotionally blowing up at very fair criticism.

Despite my disagreement I endorse Habryka unilaterally taking these kinds of decisions and approve of his transparency and conduct in this matter. 

Farewell, lesswrong gadfly. You will be missed.

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Leon Lang's Shortform
Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel1mo4-4

Agreed. The primary thing Solomonoff induction doesn't take into account is computational complexity/ compute. But... you can simply include a reasonable time-penalty and most of the results mostly go through. It becomes a bit more like logical inductors.

Solomonoff induction also dovetails (hah) nicely with the fact that next-token prediction was all you need for intelligence.[1]

  1. ^

    well almost, the gap is exactly AIXI

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Inscrutability was always inevitable, right?
Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel1mo-40

MIRI lost the Mandate of Heaven smh

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Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel's Shortform
Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel1mo20

Oh wild. It's clearly propaganda. But also incredibly valuable information. itsThe West would so well to listen carefully to what  adversaries are saying. They are certainly listening carefully to us!

 

Thanks for the alert Thomas. Subscribed.

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Alex_Altair's Shortform
Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel2mo40
  1. Gemini: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m6A5Rkf0NzPsCMt8c1Qb-o9pTWup-zk5epQNYX_cdo4/edit?usp=sharing

    2. Chatgpt: https://chatgpt.com/share/6888b1b6-0e88-8011-8b41-d675d3aefb04


    seems to me that there is a lot of good content here already. 
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Alex_Altair's Shortform
Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel2mo52

What does Gemini say? Seems like a perfect set of questions to ask a modern LLM. 

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williawa's Shortform
Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel2mo70

@Dmitry Vaintrob 

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Why Reality Has A Well-Known Math Bias
Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel2mo50

Yes - I would say this is one of the many paradoxes solved by UDASSA. 

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