Many people recommend setting devices to grayscale to reduce screen time. The idea is that bright, vivid colors make apps like YouTube and Reddit more addictive. I tried it and found it helpful, but I kept having to turn colors back on to make sense of some websites. Eventually, I...
Many people recommend setting devices to grayscale to reduce screen time. The idea is that bright, vivid colors make apps like YouTube and Reddit more addictive. I tried it and found it helpful, but I kept having to turn colors back on to make sense of some websites. Eventually, I forgot to re-enable grayscale and relapsed into my old habits.
I came up with 2 solutions:
1. Set my screen to 5-10% saturation. This gives me nearly all the distraction-reducing benefits of grayscale while keeping just enough color to navigate UIs and interpret charts. I never have to toggle it off. This works great for PCs, Macs, and iPhone, but is impossible on Android. On PCs and Macs you may have productivity tools that use colors, so you can try desaturating your web browser only.
2. Having grayscale mode automatically re-enable after a fixed amount of time (say, 5 minutes). On Android, this can be done very easily with an app called Tasker, which costs $3.50.
I found this essay very useful, thank you for writing it!
However, the CPU/GPU analogy doesn't make sense to me. There are two main points of confusion:
- I don't know what you mean by "training your GPU software". What is GPU software? What does it mean to train software?
- If I understood correctly, you think logic is useful for verification and communication of intuitions. However, in analogizing logic to a CPU, you say that logic is useful to facilitate the training of your intuition. It doesn't sound like verification and communication is part of facilitating training. Am I missing something?
Here's my attempt at an alternate analogy: "Your intuition is the giant, high-performing neural net while your logic is the interpretable version of it that is derived from the original and sometimes performs worse, but is more communicable and can be inspected more easily". Maybe this is closer to what you meant? Let me know.
The statements "LLMs are a normal technology" and "Advanced AI is a normal technology" are completely different. If you think LLMs are not very advanced, it is perfectly valid to believe both that LLMs are a normal technology and that advanced AI is not.
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Upon reflection, I agree that my previous comment describes fragility of value.
My mental model is that the standard MIRI position[1] claims the following [2]:
1. Because of the way AI systems are trained, will be large even if we knew humanity's collective utility function and could target that (this is inner misalignment)
2. Even if were fairly small, this would still result in catastrophic outcomes if is an extremely powerful optimizer (this is fragility of value)
A few questions:
3. Are the claims (1) and (2) accurate representations of inner misalignment and fragility of value?
4. Is the "misgeneralization" claim just " will be much larger than "?
If the answer to (4) is yes, I am... (read more)
Here's my attempted phrasing, which I think avoids some of the common confusions:
Suppose we have a model with utility function , where is not capable of taking over the world. Assume that thanks to a bunch of alignment work, is within (by some metric) of humanity's collective utility function. Then in the process of maximizing , ends up doing a bunch of vaguely helpful stuff.
Then someone releases model with utility function , where is capable of taking over the world. Suppose that our alignment techniques generalize perfectly. That is, is also within of humanity's collective utility function, where Then in the process of maximizing , gets rid of humans and rearranges their molecules to satisfy better.
Does this phrasing seem accurate and helpful?
The union bound states that P(⋃ni=1Ai)≤∑ni=1P(Ai) for any events A1,…,An. In practice, this is an enormously useful property. I think one reason it's so useful is that for rare events, it gives you essentially the same answer you'd get if the events were independent, but without proving anything about their dependence structure. To be precise, suppose A1,…,An are independent and all have probability p. Then, P(⋃ni=1Ai)=1−(1−p)n and ∑ni=1P(Ai)=np. Now note that 1−(1−p)n∈Θ(np) when np is bounded, so the union bound gives you asymptotically the same bound as assuming the events are independent.