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I'm in the area and I would have loved to attend, but I just saw this posting. How many people showed up? Is another meetup being planned?
This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately, myself. I totally struggle with akrasia and executive functioning, and I find I have more willpower if I do things socially. I've been using friends to go to the gym for the past few weeks. I've actually been rethinking my relationship with leadership because of it: I used to hate being the leader (preferring to just be left alone), but now I'm thinking that I need to lead in order to do the things I want to do.
I agree. I stumbled across this one a week ago or so - without knowing the author was associated with LW - loved it, and have been thinking about it off and off since. I'm glad to see it again. I feel like I should probably start reading your blog regularly..
This really gets at the heart of what intuitively struck me wrong (read: "confused me") in Eliezer's reply. Both Eliezer and Holden engage with the example "Google Maps AGI"; I'm not sure what the difference is - if any - between "Google Maps AGI" and the sort of search/decision-support algorithms that Google Maps and other GPS systems currently use. The algorithm Holdon describes and the neat A* algorithm Eliezer presents seem to just do exactly what the GPS on my phone already does. If the Tool AI we're discussing is different than current GPS systems, then what is the difference? Near as I understand it, AGI is intelligent across different domains in... (read more)
This speech was really something special. Thanks for posting it. My favorite sections:
... (read more)"If it takes years to articulate great questions, what do you do now, at sixteen? Work toward finding one. Great questions don't appear suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is not to search for them-- not to wander about thinking, what great discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd have made it.
The way to get a big idea to appear in your head is not to hunt for big ideas, but to put in a lot of time on work
This is a good one. I definitely sympathize with Eliezer's point that Bayesian probability theory is only part of the solution. e.g., in philosophy of science, the deductive-nomological account of scientific explanation is being displaced by a mechanistic view of explanation. In this context, a mechanism is an organization of parts which is responsible for some phenomena. This change is driven by the inapplicability of D-N to certain areas of science, especially the biomedical sciences, where matters are more complex and we can't really deduce conclusions from universal laws; instead, people are treating law-like regularity as phenomena to be explained by appeal to the organized interactions of underlying parts.
e.g., Instead of explaining,... (read more)
From Shattered Perception (Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.):
"You must shatter the fetters of the past. Only then can you truly act."
I think this one takes the cake, in terms of rationality.
I don't understand why you're getting downvoted. Those were great links, and indeed relevant. I appreciated them.