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Yitz21d60

So I know somebody who I believe is capable of altering Trump’s position on the war in Iran, if they can find a way to talk face-to-face for 15 minutes. They already have really deep connections in DC, and they told me if they were somehow randomly entrusted with nationally important information, they could be talking with the president in at least 2 hours. I’m trying to decide if I want to push this person to do something or not (as they’re normally kind of resistant to taking high-agency type actions, and don’t have as much faith in themselves as I do). Anyone have any advice on how to think about this?

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On May 1, 2033, humanity discovered that AI was fairly easy to align.
Yitz21d20

You didn’t really misinterpret it. I was using the term in a looser way than most would, to mean that you don’t need a fine-grained technical solution, and just a very basic trick is enough for alignment. I realize most use the term differently though, so I’ll change the wording.

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Yitz23d*30

Attention can perhaps be compared to a searchlight, And wherever that searchlight lands in the brain, You’re able to “think more” in that area. How does the brain do that? Where is it “taking” this processing power from?

The areas and senses around it perhaps. Could that be why when you’re super focused, everything else around you other than the thing you are focused on seems to “fade”? It’s not just by comparison to the brightness of your attention, but also because the processing is being “squeezed out” of the other areas of your mind.

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On May 1, 2033, humanity discovered that AI was fairly easy to align.
Yitz23d20

This is potentially a follow-up to my AI 2027 forecast, An “Optimistic” AI Timeline, depending on how hard people roast me for this lol.

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Yitz3mo20

Are there any open part-time rationalist/EA- adjacent jobs or volunteer work in LA? Looking for something I can do in the afternoon while I’m here for the next few months.

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An “Optimistic” 2027 Timeline
Yitz3mo40

Oh no, it should have been A1! It’s just a really dumb joke about A1 sauce lol

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Ayn Rand’s model of “living money”; and an upside of burnout
Yitz8mo50

Reminds me of Internal Family Systems, which has a nice amount of research behind it if you want to learn more.

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Yitz1y*20

Thanks! Is there any literature on the generalization of this, properties of “unreachable” numbers in general? Just realized I'm describing the basic concept of computability at this point lol.

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Yitz1y70

Is there a term for/literature about the concept of the first number unreachable by an n-state Turing machine? By "unreachable," I mean that there is no n-state Turing machine which outputs that number. Obviously such "Turing-unreachable numbers" are usually going to be much smaller than Busy Beaver numbers (as there simply aren't enough possible different n-state Turing machines to cover all numbers up to to the insane heights BB(n) reaches towards) , but I would expect them to have some interesting properties (though I have no sense of what those properties might be). Anyone here know of existing literature on this concept?

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10On May 1, 2033, humanity discovered that AI was fairly easy to align.
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13An “Optimistic” 2027 Timeline
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3What if Ethics is Provably Self-Contradictory?
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82An Introduction To The Mandelbrot Set That Doesn't Mention Complex Numbers
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6Literature On Existential Risk From Atmospheric Contamination?
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9Evil autocomplete: Existential Risk and Next-Token Predictors
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63I Am Scared of Posting Negative Takes About Bing's AI
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18Self-Awareness (and possible mode collapse around it) in ChatGPT
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6Exquisite Oracle: A Dadaist-Inspired Literary Game for Many Friends (or 1 AI)
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7The Fear [Fiction]
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