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small edit: I removed the location from this post because of the contract with the venue; if you want to come just ask me about the location!

I can add to that that there are still (quite some) spots available due to them renting out the whole youth hostel. I highly encourage applying.

Careful: this event page is a duplicate of https://www.lesswrong.com/events/JWWaknqcT3zJHrdNu/acx-schelling-meetup-6

The location is confirmed :)
 

Sith

small typo

Location: (49.0142290, 8.4038544) https://maps.app.goo.gl/qrzC1mseUChj2cvFA?g_st=ic

I've unfortunately been quite distracted, but better a late reply than no reply.
With capabilities I mean how well a system accomplishes different tasks. This is potentially high dimensional (there can be many tasks that two systems are not equally good at). Also it can be more and less general (optical character recognition is very narrow because it can only be used for one thing, generating / predicting text is quite general). Also, systems without agency can have strong and general capabilities (a system might generate text or images without being agenti... (read more)

Thanks for your replies. I think our intuitions regarding intelligence and agency are quite different. I deliberately mostly stickest to the word ‘capabilities’, because in my intuition you can have systems with very strong and quite general capabilities, that are not agentic.

One very interesting point is that you : “Presumably the problem happens somewhere between "the smartest animal we know" and "our intelligence", and once we are near that, recursive self-improvement will make the distinction moot”. Can you explain this position more? In my intuition building and improving intelligent systems is far harder than that.

I hope to later come back to your answer to information about the real world.

I’m already there, wearing a red T-shirt

new location for meet-up: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=49.013498146132875%2C8.40058685281165

Alex talk will be postponed to next week. Status of today's meeting is still uncertain.

There might be rain / thunderstorm. In this case we will meet at a private place. PM me if you are new, but still want to join.

New location because of too many people https://goo.gl/maps/6UWhUZVLLazzf7UeA (The group with the large unicycle)

Due to server problems the link is now https://public.senfcall.de/karlsruheunterrationality

The meeting will take place on jitsi meet (meet.jit.si) in the room KarlsruheLW20201124