AnthonyRepetto

<sharing it here, too, though I can already imagine the reaction...> ~ a community of Bayes-enthusiasts fumble statistical inference ~ TL;DR — Industry uses Dirichlet Process and SAS, NOT Bayes. Bayes is persistently *wrong* and lacks a great deal of important information. Supposed ‘rationalists’ cling to Bayes as the Ultimate...

~ AGI safety is at LEAST as hard as a protocol which prevents tyranny ~ When we want to keep ourselves safe from AGI, then one of the key criteria is “can we turn it off if it tries to go berserk?” That is the same requirement whenever we put...

~ constant winds carry ships FAST on Arctic ice-highways, easily made! ~ TL;DR — Ice Ships are frickin’ insane. With a mast and sail, a wide flat body, and innumerable skates, these sailboats are able to haul tonnage across frozen lakes and glaciers at up to 85 miles per hour!...

~ NOT crypto-dollars; actual computer chips = dollars ~ TL;DR — A currency is ‘backed’ by the thing you get for it when you hand-in your dollar to the bank. It used to be that you could go to the bank with your paper dollar, which was really just a...

~ desalinate with <5% the energy & equipment ~ TL;DR — We need to stop droughts, especially as climate change makes them worse. Desalination is nice, capturing clean water from the sea, yet it requires expensive equipment and lots and lots of energy. We can, instead, accelerate evaporation OUT into...

~ and a place to add your own verse of wit! ~ An Ode to the Venerable Sir Scam Bankrun-Fraud, the elder: Have you heard the name renowned? A phrase we say To allay sway Of FUDster, huckster-clowns? Scam Bankrun-Fraud! Scam Bankrun-Fraud: Got Sequoia On a gank, Contumely - Scam...

This is my offering to the Future Fund's "A.I. Worldview Prize" - and I stand as an outsider who is unlikely to move the needle; I hope this angle of approach is noticed there, at least. Our Last Limitations? The AGI with feelings and motives is irrelevant to my concerns;...