Discussion article for the meetup : Yale rationality group meeting. WHEN: 05 October 2014 02:00:00PM (-0400) WHERE: Seminar room K22, Jonathan Edwards College, 68 High Street New Haven, CT 06511 The Yale rationality group will be holding a meeting this Sunday, October 5 at 2 pm in JE seminar room...
Discussion article for the meetup : Yale: Initial Meetup WHEN: 16 February 2014 02:00:00PM (-0500) WHERE: Bass Library Cafe, 110 Wall St, New Haven, CT 06511 Hi. If anyone who goes to Yale is interested in meeting up, I'll be in Bass Cafe on Sunday, February 16, from 2 to...
Is gain-of-function research "very harmful"? I feel like it's not appropriate to nickel-and-dime this.
And also, yes, I do think it's harmful directly, in addition to eventually in expectation. It's a substantial derogation of a norm that should exist. To explain this concept further:
Because of the Curry-Howard correspondence, as well as for other reasons, it does not seem that the distance between solving math problems and writing AIs is large. I mean, actually, according to the correspondence, the distance is zero, but perhaps we may grant that programming an AI is a different kind of math problem from the Olympiad fare. Does this make you feel safe?
Also, it seems that the core difficulty in alignment is more in producing definitions and statements of theorems, than in proving theorems. What should the math even look like or be about? A proof assistant is not helpful here.
I think this kind of research is very harmful and should stop.
I think it's important to repeat this even if it's common knowledge in many of our circles, because it's not in broader circles, and we should not give up on reminding people not to conduct research that leads to net increased risk of destroying the world, even if its really cool, gets you promoted, or makes you a lot of money.
Again, OpenAI people, if you're reading this, please stop.
Does anyone know approx what time the event will end?
Stylebot for chrome. Perhaps there's better now — the ui can be a bit wonky — but I've used it for almost a decade, so
I found, when I tried to do this over a year ago, that no matter how much effort I put into "pruning" the home screen, YouTube would always devote ~10-20% of it to stuff I didn't want to see. Either it was epsilon-exploration, or stuff that tested well with the general population, or a bunch of "mandatory modules" like popular music or "news," but whatever it was, I couldn't get rid of all of it, and some of it managed to attract my clicks despite my best efforts. These extra items filled me with a sense of violation whenever I scrolled through.
So, I wound up using a CSS editor to block the... (read more)
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Let's not get ahead of ourselves, friend.
The Yale rationality group will be holding a meeting this Sunday, October 5 at 2 pm in JE seminar room K22. The meeting should last roughly an hour (at most two). Tentative agenda: we'll be (re)introducing ourselves to each other, discussing some organizational matters, and doing some group exercises on goals and getting stuff done. All are welcome.
Hi. If anyone who goes to Yale is interested in meeting up, I'll be in Bass Cafe on Sunday, February 16, from 2 to 4 pm. I'll bring my copy of Good and Real for identification purposes.
Seems like the real test would be to do it without the television shows?