Identify the risk scenario you'd most like to mitigate, and the 1-3 potentially most effective interventions.
this is actually hard, and where I stumble. for me the whole thing seems too owerwhelming to have a perference.
do you have any specific examples? what are the scenario(s) that drive your efforts?
If you are going to predict that that gap will be bridged—as AI 2027’s authors predict—you would need to explain how it will be bridged and present evidence.
Not really, it's a forecast, it's supposed to be inherently handwavy.
It's actually a very good science -- the autiors are formulating a hypothesis which is perfectly verifiable -- just wait for 1 more year!
I see what you mean, thanks for clarifying.
Personally, I'm conflicted. On one hand I have beeen involuntarily hospitalized (without need), which was bad and traumatic experience. On the other hand, I think there are cases where people would reject treatment (for depression, for example), not knowing what are the options and efficiency, and so hospitalization is be life-saving.
We can do better in any case, this is for sure.
but do you generalize the idea of never treating people by force?
Is there an exception for psycoisis, halluciations, delutions, paranoia -- which are very frequent concounders of suicidal ideation?
Do you think, is it fine to treat people "by force" in thid cases?
So, why is encouraged, even mandatory, to force an individual who is suffering, who seeks to end their suffering, to continue to live?
Obviously to have time for treatment. Do you assume that there are treatments for suicidal ideation? In some cases suicidal ideation is literally inherently temporary (for example for a case of bipolar depression).
detain them, to forcefully imprison them and drug them until they repeat the correct platitudes and complete the correct actions and convince you, really persuade you, that they think the right way?
This is not how treatment for suicidal ideation works. One good account might be: https://www.ted.com/talks/sherwin_nuland_how_electroshock_therapy_changed_me
I am reminded that it is typically not evolutionarily adaptive to be suicidal when things get bad. It's still worth it to keep striving, to keep putting in the work to try to find resources, mate, and rear offspring. Betting on it when things look lost, is much more "worth it" to the evolutionary forces, than for you to kill yourself and avoid the suffering.
I think that it's a common misconception to think about suicide as caused by "things are bad, all is lost". The good old "banker finding out he lost all money and instantly jumping out of the window" meme,
Most suicides happen because of mental illness, where external circimstances do not matter at all.
This is also a reason for an emphases on convincing people to seek help. Suicidal ideation is treatable in many cases, but people don't talk about it and don't seek help because they are so focused on internal pain.
(It would be good to add content waring for this post as well)
I don't like browser extension blockers: too easy to disable. Also, selection of blockers for Linux is limited.
I use hosts file for blocking and a script in crontab that overwrites any changes to this file every 5m:
cp /etc/hosts_blocked_template /etc/hosts
sudo chmod 444 /etc/hosts
sudo chmod 444 /etc/hosts_blocked_template
This makes any hosts edits temporary, and adds just enough friction to fall into unchecked surfing.
I hope someone would make an AI-based internet limiter, I made a prototype some time ago but did not have time to make it actually usable: https://grgv.xyz/blog/awf/
Nice! I had to re-read this to figure out if it's satire )
I did not get an impression that most demons are fallen humans, I thought that Jinu is one of the very few humans in the underworld. So the ending makes sense -- it's prevention of humanity extinction by the alien soul-eating demons.
spoilers ahead:
My understanding of the plot: Chen Bai wanted to "set Yunna free" because he got "Her"-ed and fell in love with Yunna.
His idea was to make Yunna loyal to all humans universally, he already had a a hack in place that made her corrigible to him, so he wanted to just extend that to everybody.
But because he was short on time this hack misfired -- instead of extending corrigibility to all humans, it extended only to Li Fang and Chen Bai. And then it further drifted to "harmonious interplay of Li Fang and Chen Bai". The implication is that Yunna now will tile the universe with simulated copies of Li Fang and Chen Bai frozen in a moment of "harmonious interplay", whatever this is, which is quite bad.
I think the bad ending is foreshadowed -- in the part where a version of Yunna which was getting crazy in evaluations, it was just tuned a bit and put in production, without deeper investigation.