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Distillation of Neurotech and Alignment Workshop January 2023
andymatuschak94

I’m attending the Foresight workshop with Lisa and Sumner, and I wanted to share a point we just discussed: BCIs for value loading are interesting to consider from the perspective of scalable supervision.

Compared to RLAIF, a relatively coarse signal of disgust/fear from a human may be a more reliable or trustworthy response, particularly if sourced from multiple different humans. Simple EEG might be sufficient; for that matter, galvanic skin response from a ubiquitous device like an Apple Watch might be sufficient. Maybe we can be crowdsourcing value sign... (read more)

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2Alex K. Chen (parrot)
https://stream.thesephist.com/updates/1711563348   Neurable headphones could be one way of crowdsourcing value signals b/c they're so wearable Hm there are other people like https://soulsyrup.github.io/  and @guillefix and Ogi tFUS is a way of accelerating internal alignment (look up PropheticAI). As are the Jhourney jhana people (though people like me have so much DMN noise that tFUS is needed first). Look up 
DARPA Digital Tutor: Four Months to Total Technical Expertise?
andymatuschak40

I've not had success finding these details, unfortunately—I've been curious about them too.

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2SebastianG
I understood the problems to be of the sort one would learn in becoming whatever the Navy ship equivalent is to CISCO Administrator. It really seems to have been a training program for all the sys admin IT needs of a Navy ship. Here are some examples of problems they had to solve:
You Can Now Embed Flashcard Quizzes in Your LessWrong posts!
andymatuschak60

Thanks, Spencer—I'm excited to see what you learn from this. :)

FWIW, Orbit can indeed be used self-serve, but its OEmbed support (for embedding into user-generated content editors like on here, Medium, GitHub, etc) is not yet available; you must be able to embed HTML blocks. I've not yet advertised this very broadly because I've been looking to cultivate closer relationships with authors in contexts where the medium might be especially useful. Like many commenters here, I fear the existing embedding interaction is probably a net negative in many contexts.

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