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Completely off the cuff take:

I don't think claim 1 is wrong, but it does clash with claim 2.

That means any system that has to be corrigible cannot be a system that maximizes a simple utility function (1 dimension), or put another way "whatever utility function is maximizes must be along multiple dimensions".

Which seems to be pretty much what humans do, we have really complex utility functions, and everything seems to be ever changing and we have some control over it ourselves (and sometimes that goes wrong and people end up maxing out a singular dimension at the cost of everything else).

Note to self: Think more about this and if possible write up something more coherent and explanatory.

Reasonably we need both, but most of all we need some way to figure out what happened in the situation where we have conflicting experiments, so as to be able to say "these results are invalid because XXX".

Probably more of an adversarial process, where experiments and their results must be replicated*. Which means experiments must be documented way more detailed, and also data has to be much more clear and especially the steps that happen in clean up etc.

Personally I think science is in crisis, people are incentivized to write lots of papers, publish results fast, and there is zero incentive to show a paper is false / bad, or replicate an experiment.

*If possible, redoing some experiment is going to be very hard, especially if we would like the experiments to have as little in common as possible (building another collider to does what LHC does is not happening any time soon).

Thanks for the write-up, that was very useful for my own calibration.

Fair warning: Colorful language ahead.

Why is it whenever Meta AI does a presentation, YC posts something, they release a paper, I go:

Jeez guys, that's it? With all the money you have, and all the smart guys (including YC), this is really it?

What is going on? You come off as a bunch of people who have your heads so far up your own ass, sniffing rose smelling (supposedly but not really) farts, to realize that you come across as amateur's with way too much money.

Its sloppy, half baked, not even remotely thought through, and the only reason you build and release anything is because of all the money you can throw at compute.

/End rant

And yeah I might be a bit annoyed at Meta AI and especially YC, but come on man, how much more can you derail public discourse, with those naive* takes on alignment and x-risk?

*Can I use "naivist" as a noun ? (like some people use doomer for people with a specific position).

I got my entire foundation torn down, and with it came everything else.

It all came crashing down in one giant heap of rubble.

I’ll just rebuild, I thought - not realizing you can’t build without a foundation plan.

So all I’ve ended up doing was shift through the rubble, searching for things that feel right.

Now I am back, in a very literal sense, to where I all began, so much was built, so many things destroyed and corrupted, and a major piece ended and got buried.

And all I got is “what the eff am I doing here?”

The obvious answer is “yelling at the sky demanding answers” and being utterly ignored.

I guess as per usual it is all up to me, except I don’t know how to rebuild myself……again.

F…..

Sure, I often browse LW casually and whenever I come across an interesting post, or a comment or whatever, and I go "hmm right I might have sometime to contribute / say here, let me get back to it when I have time to think about it and write something maybe relevant"

My specific problem, is that I am a massive scatterbrain, so I hardly ever do come back to it, and even if I do it usually eludes me what the momentary insight I wanted to get into was.

On top of that I do this from a lot of different devices, and whatever I am looking for to help me quickly go "follow-up on this because XXX" and then move on, must be fast, easy and work across pretty much all device types and browsers / OS's (I use IOS, Android, Windows (several), Linux (Several), Firefox, Chrome, Brave and so on).

So that's all it is, just a quick mark for me as something I want to follow-up (potentially) and a short message to future JNS with the why. And I just know I'll never get around to it, if in involves comparing notes across stuff,  but I might if it was something that was just available under my profile (like drafts).

I will add that this is not just a "I am a scatterbrain" person, it is also a time management thing. Married, two kids, full time high demand job and ADHD, means the opportunities I have to carve out 1 hour to think something through and craft some useful text, is not something that comes along 4 times a day. So if I had basically a list of things I felt I need to engage with and the note to myself as to why, that would just be a massive help.

And yeah that is totally egocentric thing, something I personally would find massively useful.

Edit: Clarified some things, and adding a thought after this edit message.

Thinking about it, LW seems like the place where the rate of ND people would be higher than the base rate, and I kinda feel that something like this would be helpful for other people, potentially a lot of people, and not just me.

Maybe this feature would be more generic if it was just a mark function, and you could mark it for whatever (follow-up and reference spring to mind as the most useful) and then add a note, display it all in list form with an option to filter/sort of various things and make sure that its easily viewable what the marked content is and the associated note (anything that involves clicking through stuff to get enough information to decide what to dive into is IMO bad design).

I could do something like that, however it must work on phone, tablet and PC (iOS, android, windows, Linux)

I use multiple devices, and anything 3party seems to be bad in such a situation, especially for someone like me who gets sidetracked so easily

I kinda feel the same way, and honestly I think it’s wrong to hold yourself back, how are you going to calibrate without feedback?

Alone, wandering the endless hallways of this massive temple of healing.

Feels empty and eerily quiet, and yet I know there are 100’s of people around, most sleeping, some watching, a few dying, and close by someone being born.

Yesterday feels like ages ago, orbiting Saturn on morphine, billions of miles away from the excruciating pain that brought me here.

The daze is gone, and so is the morphine induced migraine, I feel fine, great even, and guilty.

But home I may not go, so I wander these deserted hallways, pondering the future, will it be there for my kids?

Well is he is right about some ACs being simple on/off units.

But there also exists units than can change cycle speed, its basically the same thing except the motor driving the compression cycle can vary in speed. 

In case you where wondering, they are called inverters. And when buying new today, you really should get an inverter (efficiency).

I don't think I have much actionable advice.

Personally I am sort of in the same boat, except I am in a situation where the entire 6-12 month grants thing is way to insecure (financially).

Being married with two kids, I have too many obligations to venture far into "how to pay rent this month?" territory. Also its antithetical to the kind of person I am in general.

Anyway, if you have few obligations, keep it that way and if possible get rid of some, and then throw yourself at it.

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