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Anyone here happen to have a round plane ticket from Virginia to Berkeley, CA lying around? I managed to get reduced price tickets to LessOnline, but I can't reasonably afford to fly there, given my current financial situation. This is a (really) long-shot, but thought it might be worth asking lol.
Personally I think this would be pretty cool!
This seems really cool! Filled out an application, though I realized after sending I should probably have included on there that I would need some financial support to be able to attend (both for the ticket itself and for the transportation required to get there). How much of a problem is that likely to be?
I agree with you when it comes to humans that an approximation is totally fine for [almost] all purposes. I'm not sure that this holds when it comes to thinking about potential superintelligent AI, however. If it turns out that even in a super high-fidelity multidimensional ethical model there are still inherent self-contradictions, how/would that impact the Alignment problem, for instance?
What would a better way look like?
imagine an AI system which wipes out humans in order to secure its own power, and later on reflection wishes it hadn't; a wiser system might have avoided taking that action in the first place
I’m not confident this couldn’t swing just as easily (if not more so) in the opposite direction—a wiser system with unaligned goals would be more dangerous, not less. I feel moderately confident that wisdom and human-centered ethics are orthogonal categories, and being wiser therefore does not necessitate greater alignment.
On the topic of the competition itself, are contestants allowed to submit multiple entries?
Thanks for the great review! Definitely made me hungry though… :)
Anyone here have any experience with/done research on neurofeedback? I'm curious what people's thoughts are on it.