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MATS AI Safety Strategy Curriculum v2
Luca10

Can you expand on which readings you think are dumb and wrong? 

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5Steven Byrnes
I was just being silly … they’re trying to present arguments on both sides of various contentious issues, so of course any given reader is going to think that ≈50% of those arguments are wrong.
Human Mimicry Mainly Works When We’re Already Close
Luca136

Like plex said, getting gpt or like to simulate current top researchers, where you can use it as a research assistant, would be hugely beneficial given how talent constrained we are. Getting more direct data on the actual process of coming up with AI Alignment ideas seems robustly good and I'm currently working on this.

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Prizes for ELK proposals
LucaΩ010

What's the exact deadline for submissions?

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3Mark Xu
Before I check my email on Feb 16th, which I will do around 10am PST.
Hammertime Day 2: Yoda Timers
Luca60
  • I committed myself to leave a comment on every post/YouTube video/reddit thread I Interact with since I have a pretty strong aversion for online interaction and asking for help on the internet.
  • I do TimeTracking for all my activities and don't really look at the data all that much, so I put a reminder to look through all I did at the end of the day and search for areas to optimize.
  • I made a commitment to be more critical in my media consumption by at least writing some notes on everything since I tend to just 'like' or 'dislike' stuff without forming an actual opinion.
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When would an agent do something different as a result of believing the many worlds theory?
Luca50

Does that mean that utilitarianism is incompatible with Many Worlds? if everything that is possible for you to do is something that you actually do then that would mean that utility, across the whole multiverse, is constant, even assuming any notion of free will.

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1mako yass
No, if 99% of timelines have utility 1, while in 1% of timelines something very improbable happens and you instead cause utility to go to 0, the global utility is still pretty much 1. Some part of the human utility function seems to care about absolute existence or nonexistence, and that component is going to be sort of steamrolled by multiverse theory, but we will mostly just keep on going in pursuit of greater relative measure.
2Viliam
Everything is possible, but not everything has the same measure (is equally likely). Killing someone in 10% of "worlds" is worse than killing them in 1% of "worlds". At the end, believing in many worlds will give you the same results as believing in collapse. It's just that epistemologically, the believer in collapse needs to deal with the problem of luck. Does "having a 10% probability of killing someone, and actually killing them" make you a worse person that "having a 10% probability of killing someone, but not killing them"? (From many-worlds perspective, it's the same. You simply shouldn't do things that have 10% risk of killing someone, unless it is to avoid even worse things.) (And yes, there is the technical problem of how exactly you determine that the probability was exactly 10%, considering that you don't see the parallel "words".)