testingthewaters

His hands are shaking. They’ve been shaking since five hours ago, when the silent policemen showed up at his door wearing black tactical vests on top of black sleeves. He lived alone—there was no one to call for, no one to beg to call his lawyer as they took him...

Part One Our scene is set in a biofilm, long before the origin of the first multicellular organisms, so long ago that time itself has not yet really been invented except in the cycles of energy production that characterise the activity of each cell. Many bacteria live here, tied together...

> “Look,” whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) > > Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. Arthur C. Clarke, The Nine Billion Names of God Introduction In the tradition of fun and uplifting April Fool's day...

Introduction Previously I wrote about what it would mean for AI to “go well”. I would like to elaborate on this and propose some details towards a “scale-free” definition of alignment. Here “scale-free alignment” means a version of alignment that does not feature sudden and rapid “phase shifts”, so as...

A Summary People who believe in science and rationality often state that their beliefs are formed from sound foundations of observation, experimentation, and reasoning. They dismiss religion and faith as unscientific forms of thought which cannot lead to knowledge. At the same time, thought experiments like the simulation hypothesis show...

Note: reposting this as a top level post because it got no interaction as a quick take and I think this is actually a serious question. It arose from a discussion in the Technical AI Governance Forum. As AI systems get more and more complicated, the properties we are trying...

TL;DR I believe that: * There exists a parallel track of AI research which has been largely ignored by the AI safety community. This agenda aims to implement human-like online learning in ML models, and it is now close to maturity. Keywords: Hierarchical Reasoning Model, Energy-based Model, Test time training....