The MINIMUM amount of backwards time travel(only one step backwards, and then the remainder of the person's life is lived) and the MINIMUM amount of resources(let's say USD in XXXX year) a person would need to be sure that any problems associated with existential risks will be handled adequately(i.e. human...
Superstimuli in this case are things that are optimized towards stimulating some part of the human brain. Things which are NOT superstimuli include: drugs which have not been synthesized or distilled for the purpose of enhancing their effects on a person, porn of real humans, etc. This question is less...
I'm having a failure of imagination here, I assume an aligned AGI would upload human minds, preventing them from dying, but beyond that it's not clear to me what would happen. Would we just get wireheaded? Is there a CEV from human values that results in choice or life that...
Yeah I would say AI is more like the popularization of PhotoShop in photography, or CGI in movies/animations. Most any work you can do with AI is a result of taking existing pieces from the medium, training the AI on them, and then using it to generate more. So it's effectively a stochastic editor or cognitive harness, that helps you make the art. It shines in a few areas, like those subliminal pictures that are two things at once, but ultimately is like a really large sized brush that makes everything you paint average.
Wow this was a very well-written post, really put the fear of confounders in me as a humble ML student.
I took the survey
I think Canada still has a pretty outsized impact on AI, especially considering how many researchers and companies came out of places like University of Toronto or UWaterloo.
Additionally, I think that if we at least had an example of what good AI policy looks like, implemented successfully in a country, it could be used as a proof to other countries that good AI regulation is possible and useful. In that regard I think lobbying for well thought out AI regulation policies on the national level is really important, and it's not necessary to focus on international to get traction.
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Bounty, magical thinking, bummer, clear division/separation, +1, made me angry, long thoughts/time spent thinking, sage, exposed an error, good communication, good post smell?/vibes, broken argument, strong argument, moved my position on the topic
There are some models on HuggingFace that do automatic PII data redaction, I've been working on a project to automate redaction for documents with them. AI4privacy's models and Microsoft Presidio have been helpful.
You might find some puzzle games to be useful. In particular Understand is a game that was talked about on here as being good for learning how to test hypotheses and empirically deduce patterns. Similar to your Baba Is You experiments.
Any way that we can easily get back our own results from the survey? I know you can sometimes get a copy of your responses when you submit a Google form.
What happens to the general Lightcone portfolio if you don't meet a fundraising target, either this year or a future year?
For concreteness, say you miss the $1M target by $200K.
The MINIMUM amount of backwards time travel(only one step backwards, and then the remainder of the person's life is lived) and the MINIMUM amount of resources(let's say USD in XXXX year) a person would need to be sure that any problems associated with existential risks will be handled adequately(i.e. human flourishing). Any specific person can be sent back, we can assume they're completely motivated to the task and have the necessary domain knowledge. Convincing everyone you're from the future does not count.
Alternately, if this seems insufficient, what specific extra knowledge would need to be brought back that we may not know right now.
The rationale for this post is to get a better idea of what a successful AI governance or alignment plan would have looked like.
Superstimuli in this case are things that are optimized towards stimulating some part of the human brain.
Things which are NOT superstimuli include: drugs which have not been synthesized or distilled for the purpose of enhancing their effects on a person, porn of real humans, etc.
This question is less about specific examples(although they may be useful for interpretation) and more about the general case of superstimuli as defined.
I'm having a failure of imagination here, I assume an aligned AGI would upload human minds, preventing them from dying, but beyond that it's not clear to me what would happen. Would we just get wireheaded? Is there a CEV from human values that results in choice or life that has an analogue to a good life right now? Does anyone understand what would happen if you gave an AGI human values and told it to extrapolate from there?
Understand is a puzzle game that is basically what you describe as an Epistemic Roguelike, in that you deduce a different ruleset for every set of levels. It's not an actual roguelike though, purely focused on the puzzle of figuring out rules, which are limited to a simple grid with shapes.
I would say that as something exploring a relatively unplumbed space of content, Epistemic Roguelikes are more likely to be interesting in a time where AI can make average copies of any existing content, and mainly struggles with new concepts.
Correspondingly, I think that D&D Sci might be less useful now that you could plausibly automate a large chunk of the process of creating scenarios? That's my impression based on checking out the posts, although I haven't actually completed one.