This year's Fall ACX Meetup everywhere in Bremen.
Location: We meet outside at Café Weserterrassen, near the playground or inside if the weather is really bad. I'll be carrying a Perplexus Epic Ball Labyrinth. – https://plus.codes/9F5C3R9J+8W9
Feel free to bring kids.
Contact: ad.fontes@aol.com
This year's Spring ACX Meetup everywhere in Bremen.
Location: Piano, Fehrfeld 64. I'll be carrying a Perplexus Epic Ball Labyrinth – https://plus.codes/9F5C3RFF+7J
Contact: ad.fontes@aol.com
This year's ACX Meetup everywhere in Bremen, Germany.
Location: Fehrfeld (the bar, not the street); there will be an Epic Perplexus Ball on or at our table. – https://plus.codes/9F5C3RFF+9Q
At the spring meetup, we decided to kick off a regular event. Since then, our group has grown from two to four people! We now gather on the fourth Tuesday evening of every month, so if you can't make it for the September meetup, we will also meet on October 24th, same place and time. Of course, you are also cordially invited if you don't want to commit to attend the meetup regularly. And if you can't make it, do not hesitate to reach out to me.
Contact: ad.fontes@aol.com
We will meet at 7 PM to discuss some articles. If you want to, you can also propose one.
One of the entrances to Theaterberg is closed, but you can take the other one or just sneak your way past the barricades.
This year's ACX Meetup everywhere in Bremen, Germany.
Location: Theaterberg (Wallanlagen). I'll carry a sign. – https://plus.codes/9F5C3RG7+G47
Contact: ad.fontes@aol.com
I found the first part of the post a little bit cryptic (no pun intended). Since the second part is not just aimed at an audience with technical security knowledge, maybe at least including Shannon's maxim and a link to outfo-hazard (ok, that one is not technical) would help. Though after googling it, I still don't understand the part about Shannon's maxim, e.g.,
Generating a password with a high amount of "entropy" is just a way of ensuring that password crackers are very unlikely to break them without violating Shannon's maxim.
If Shannon's maxim is: "The enemy knows the system", violating means that they do not know it? How does not knowing the system help crackers crack high-entropy passwords? Or is "violating Shannon's maxim" to say that the attacker knows the secrete key? In that case, wouldn't it be better to say "violating Kerckhoff's principle"? (I prefer Kerckhoff's principle anyway, Shannon's maxim seems IMO just a more cryptic (sorry again) restatement of it.)
Otherwise, nice post.
Considering that the default alternative would be no alignment research, I would say, yes, it is a net positive. But I also agree that alignment research can be dual use, which would be your second and third point. I don't think the first one is a big problem, since comparatively few AI researchers seems to care about the safety of AGI to start with. Even if you believe that some approaches to alignment will not help and can only provide a safe sense of certainty, pursuing them grows the field and can IMO only help attract more attention from the larger ML community. What do you imagine a solution to the last point to look like? Doesn't preventing malicious actors from seeking power mean solving morality or establishing some kind of utopia or so? Without having looked into it, I am pessimistic that we can find a way to utopia through political science.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment! Specific pieces of advice like these are exactly what I am looking for. One question: what is the rationale behind the brightly colored items?
I think I already have a good sense of what lifestyle changes can slow down aging and the progression of dementia and to what extent, but I don't know how to implement these changes. There is lots of advice here on how to change your life, which I appreciate, but not that much on how to change another person's life (please do correct me if I'm wrong), particularly if they are older and set in their ways or even suffering from dementia and find it difficult to learn new things while not quite comprehending the urgency of change. In this case, I couldn't even convince the primary caregiver (which is not, or... (read more)
Agreeing with your post, I think it might be important to offer the people you want to reach out to a specific alternative what they should work on instead (because otherwise we are basically just telling them to quit their job, which nobody likes to hear). One such alternative would be AI alignment, but maybe that is not optimal for impatient people. I assume that researchers at OpenAI and DeepMind are in it because of the possibilities of advanced AI and that most of them are rather impatient to see them realized. Do you think it would be a good idea to advocate that those to don't want to work on alignment... (read more)
About the "senior doctors increase death rates" part, the imho most plausible explanation the authors of the study give is the following:
Second, declines in intensity of care during meetings—driven either by changes in physician composition and practice styles, reluctance to perform interventions in patients whose primary cardiologist is unavailable, or reluctance of cardiologists to intervene in high-risk patients without adequate back-up—may produce mortality reductions [...]
Which suggests that we should develop new criteria for when to operate or that patients should ask their doctor about downsides of an intervention. When framed as a question of the seniority of the surgeons, the solution that came to my mind was to seek treatment from younger doctors (or at the extreme, to fire all older doctors), so something completely different and possibly much less effective.
Concerning this passage about doctors:
You used that word “doctor” and my translator spit out a long sequence of words for Examiner plus Diagnostician plus Treatment Planner plus Surgeon plus Outcome Evaluator plus Student Trainer plus Business Manager. Maybe it’s stuck and spitting out the names of all the professions associated with medicine.
Does anybody know whether this idea is discussed anywhere else? Not being a medical expert myself I am sceptical that this idea is applicable to the full extent that seems to be implied here. It would only work if good feedback loops are established between the professions, so that information can backpropagate when the surgeon discovers that the wrong treatment was... (read 570 more words →)