LW disclaimer: This piece is aimed at people who don’t know much about how LLMs work; I think the discourse would be much better if more people knew the basics. So most LWers are not in the target audience. I’m posting it here in case people want to pass it...
A widely-discussed problem with full automation of the economy is that, in a world where AI can do everything better, people might have trouble feeling like anything they could do is meaningful. What could we do with our time that would be fulfilling? A standard answer is that we'd play...
This is my policy for AI use in my philosophy classes this semester (modulo some small changes to make it standalone from the rest of the syllabus). I'm posting it because it contains a lot of my thoughts on how AI should and shouldn't be used in (college-level) education, both...
Statement on AI use: AI models (mostly Fable 5 and Opus 5) were extremely helpful in 1. iterating through lots of variations on the game theory models presented, 2. helping to confirm my understanding of the math, 3. fact checking, finding sources, and catching errors, and 4. providing editorial feedback....
On March 6th, jimrandomh predicted that the effectiveness of fever-screening for coronavirus would decline, because the virus would evolve to produce fever later or not at all. Has this happened in countries that have been liberally applying fever-screening?
Epistemic Status: Potential research idea. Time-limited, so not as clear as it could have been. Vingean reflection is the process of trying to anticipate how an agent smarter than you might think, in order to ensure that it will be aligned with your values. This is hard, because "if [an...
I've looked at a few of Stuart Armstrong's posts that he put up related to his research agenda (though only ones before he posted the full agenda), and felt like I was missing some prereqs. My background is in philosophy. What subjects or particular resources should I study to be...