Cédric's Shortform
Jan 9, 20222
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You could get your framework by adapting existing frameworks to fit your meta-agent utility function. Examples:
I think in the end you would get stuck on the unsolved problem of balancing the needs of individuals and the collective.
Explaining more to align understanding.
Just translate this:
"I didn't say there was a wolf!" cried the boy. "I was estimating the probability at low, but high enough. A false alarm is much less costly than a missed detection when it comes to dying! The expected value is good!"
Into normie language and should be fine.
However it's very hard to communicate nuance at scale. I have no idea how to solve that.
Follow up:
I didn't try the experiment for very long but here are my observations when sleeping fewer hours:
So basically I felt tired, energetic, more disinhibited, creative, unable to stay concentrated but when concentrated, the concentration was deeper. It was a very oxymoronic experience... (read more)
Well then let's use hyperbolic discounting to our advantage. If we make paddling sufficiently taboo, the social punishment of paddling will outweigh the rewards of potentially building AGI in the minds of the selfish researchers.
What I'm doing is trying to help with the wings by throwing some money at MIRI. I am also helping with the stopping/slowing of paddling by sharing my very simple reasoning about why that's the most sensible course of action. Hopefully the simple idea will spread and have some influence.
To be honest, I am not willing to invest that much into this as I have other things I am working on (sounds so insane to type that I am not willing to invest much into preventing the doom of everyone and everything). Anyway, there are many like me who are willing to help but only if the cost is low so if you have any ideas of what people like me could do to shift the probabilities a bit, let me know.
Imagine we're all in a paddleboat paddling towards a waterfall. Inside the paddleboat is everyone but only a relatively small number of them are doing the paddling. Of those paddling, most are aware of the waterfall ahead but for reasons beyond my comprehension, decide to paddle on anyway. A smaller group of paddlers have realised their predicament and have decided to stop paddling and start building wings onto the paddleboat so that when the paddleboat inevitably hurtles off the waterfall, it might fly.
It seems to me like the most sensible course of action is to stop paddling until the wings are built and we know for sure they're going to work. So... (read more)
Well, I hope you're right because I'd feel bad if someone tried to write something useful for us and it was so bad the comments are just speculation about whether the person is a spammer.
I'll keep on assuming people are actually trying though and try to provide constructive feedback and encouragement because the demand for LW posts outstrips supply. Even if the person is a spammer, perhaps being more encouraging and constructive will make others who are hesitant to post more comfortable. And if the person is not a spammer, they can use the feedback to improve on their next post and hopefully iterate until their posts become really good.
What would be the purpose of doing such a thing? There is no link in the writeup which would indicate farming backlinks for SEO
You're getting downvoted without feedback so I'll try to provide some.
The post does not provide any particular insight, it's a disparate collection of quotes. The same and more can be gotten by googling 'Einstein quotes'. Some ideas about how you can make the post more insightful:
Also, Einstein's brilliance was in his physics, none of those quotes really touch on that. In fact, his worldview outside of physics is not that sophisticated, especially relative to... (read more)
A conversation with a friend of mine in the car about him learning React.
This conversation might be interesting to others as rationality techniques were successfully used to persuade someone to act more rationally for their benefit in an everyday life type context.
K: 'When I get home I'm going to keep working on my portfolio website and use that to learn React'
Me: 'How are you going about that?'
K: 'I'm following a YouTube tutorial'
Me: 'I think you should just learn the concepts yourself then apply them to making the website without following a tutorial. When I was following tutorials I could not make projects independently afterwards using what I had just learned in the... (read more)
This is alignment's Attention Is All You Need moment