Comment author: James_Miller 27 January 2016 09:35:16PM *  6 points [-]

How big a deal is this? What, if anything, does it signal about when we get smarter than human AI?

Comment author: Rain 27 January 2016 10:47:10PM 16 points [-]
Comment author: HungryHobo 15 December 2015 11:44:16AM 1 point [-]

If you don't believe that a foom is the most likely outcome(a common and not unreasonable position) then it's probably better to have lots of weakly-superhuman AI than a single weakly-superhuman AI.

Comment author: Rain 23 December 2015 02:36:04PM 0 points [-]

Even in that case, whichever actor has the most processors would have the largest "AI farm", with commensurate power projection.

Comment author: AlexMennen 12 December 2015 12:26:44AM *  14 points [-]

From their website, it looks like they'll be doing a lot of deep learning research and making the results freely available, which doesn't sound like it would accelerate Friendly AI relative to AI as a whole. I hope they've thought this through.

Edit: It continues to look like their strategy might be counterproductive. [Edited again in response to this.]

Comment author: Rain 12 December 2015 03:46:59AM 4 points [-]

That interview is indeed worrying. I'm surprised by some of the answers.

Comment author: Rain 03 December 2015 04:00:12PM 3 points [-]

Great news! I've been waiting for this kind of thing.

Comment author: Rain 25 September 2015 01:39:21AM 9 points [-]

More likely, he also "always thought that way," and the extreme story was written to provide additional drama.

Comment author: Rain 12 September 2015 03:14:31PM 4 points [-]

Thank you for replicating the experiment!

Comment author: [deleted] 21 July 2015 03:10:45AM 9 points [-]

Where are you getting that much money?

In response to comment by [deleted] on MIRI's 2015 Summer Fundraiser!
Comment author: Rain 21 July 2015 01:18:50PM 30 points [-]

Somewhat upper middle class job; low cost of living, inexpensive hobbies, making donations a priority.

Comment author: Rain 21 July 2015 01:22:45AM 50 points [-]

I donated $5000 today and continue my $1000 monthly donations.

Comment author: Rain 23 November 2014 07:40:19PM 2 points [-]

So MIRI and LW are no longer a focus for you going forward?

Comment author: Kawoomba 29 October 2014 07:23:00AM 4 points [-]

This is a tangent, but to light up the whole environment just to get a few more photons to the retina is a strange approach, even if it seems to be the go-to treatment (light boxes etc.). Why not just light up the retina with a portable device, say glasses with some LED lights tacked on. That way you can take your enlightenment with you! Could be polarised to reflect indirectly off of the glasses into your eye, with little stray radiation.

Not saying that you should McGyver that yourself, but I was surprised that such a solution did not seem to exist.

But, it's hard to have a truly original thought, so when I googled it I found this. Seems like a good idea, no? Same principle as your artificial sky, if one would work, so should the other.

Also, as an aside to the tangent, tangent is a strange phrase, since it doesn't actually touch the main point. Should be polar line or somesuch.

Comment author: Rain 29 October 2014 12:37:30PM 3 points [-]

Skin reacts to light, too.

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