I've come to appreciate my gut feeling for how things in my everyday life feel over time. To distill the process of checking in with your actual felt sense of things into a neat information-theoretic package, I've recently been using a 3-bit filter: Three yes-or-no questions you can ask yourself...
> Bleg definition > > (Internet slang) An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions. I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism. > > https://www.yourdictionary.com/bleg Most ordinary people don't know about AI safety. They might have heard about 'algorithms' on the news, and...
I've come to appreciate my gut feeling for how things in my everyday life feel over time.
To distill the process of checking in with your actual felt sense of things into a neat information-theoretic package, I've recently been using a 3-bit filter: Three yes-or-no questions you can ask yourself that will give you a rough sense of where you're at with something.
Part of the reason I like this is because there is significant nuance in how you actually interpret those 3 bits. You might just sum them up, which is how I currently work with the life satisfaction filter:
One thing I'm interested in but don't know where to start looking for it, is seeing people who are working instead on the reverse direction - mathematical approaches which show aligned AI is not possible or likely. By this I mean formal work that suggests something like "almost all AGIs are unsafe", in the same way that the chances of picking a rational number at random from is zero because almost all real numbers are irrational.
I don't say this to be a downer! I mean it in the sense of a mathematician who spent 7 years attempting to prove X exists, and then sits down one day and spends 4 hours proving why X cannot exist. Progress can take surprising forms!
No known solutions can solve our hardest problems—that’s why they’re the hardest ones.
I like the energy, but I have to register a note of dissent here.
Quite a few of our hardest problems do have known solutions - it's just that those known solutions are, or appear, too hard to implement.
Bleg definition
(Internet slang) An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions. I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.
Most ordinary people don't know about AI safety. They might have heard about 'algorithms' on the news, and they might have seen Terminator, but they don't understand what those algorithms really are, or how deep this rabbit hole actually goes. Unlike, say, climate change, there really is an awareness issue here, and it might actually matter to the outcome of things whether the public is widely aware that the risks this kind of thing poses are not just SF anymore.
Of those who do, often the ones who look... (read 256 more words →)
I think your trust-o-meter is looking for people who have an unusually low level of self-deception. The energy is Great if you share my axioms or moral judgments, but for Pete's sake, at least be consistent with your own.
What suggests this to me is the Breaking Bad example, because Walter White really does move on a slow gradient from more to less self-decieved throughout the show in my read of his character - it just so happens that the less self-decieved he is, the more at home he becomes with perpetuating monstrous acts as a result of the previous history of monstrosity he is dealing with. It's real "the falcon cannot hear... (read more)