Intro In my last post on Lesswrong I shared ragenesis.com platform, along with a general description of the thought process behind the platform's development. Fundamentally, RAGenesis is a search and research AI driven software tool dedicated to 5 of the most representative holy texts in history: The Torah, The Bhagavad...
a prototype and some thoughts on semantics Before reading this article I strongly encourage you to Checkout the RAGenesis App! Full code available at https://github.com/JoaoRibeiroMedeiros/RAGenesisOSS. Screenshot of Verse Uni Verse page Project Goals * Send a message of unity and mutual understanding between different cultures through a “generative book” compiling...
The scale problem is so universal and hard to tap into. Taking lessons from physics, I would caution against building a fully generalized framework where agents and subagents function under the same interactions, there are transitions between the micro and macro states where simmetry breaks completely. Complexity also points towards this same problem, emergent behaviour in cellular automata is hardly well predicted from the smaller parts which make up that behaviour.
Beautiful writings!
I particularly enjoyed For Boltzmann... The combination of Boltzmann's flair for abstract conceptualization amidst his own personal tragedy is quite the tale to tell, and you were able to capture that in the poem. Boltzmann's struggles mirror so many other personal tales and I certainly hope each share of blood sweat and tears won't be in vain.
The restless search for universality which artists and scientists experience is also the story that connects these threads. Boltzmann Brains navigating space and time.
"Those parts are yet acknowledged, and yet mourned.
And when each human rises in their powers
The efforts of our past selves won’t be scorned."
Also reminds me of a classic Brazilian Samba by João... (read more)
Love this!!! To inspect the concept of neutrality as a software like process driven institution is a very illuminating approach.
I would add that there is a very relevant discussion in the AI sphere which is profoundly connected to the points you are making: the existence of bias in AI models.
To identify and measure bias is in a sense to identify and measure lack of neutrality, so it follows that, to define bias, one must first be very rigorous on the definition of neutrality.
This can seem simple for some of the more pedestrian AI tasks, but can become increasingly sophisticated as we introduce AI as an essential piece in workflows and institutions.
AI algorithms can be heavily biased, datasets can be biased and even data structures can be biased.
I feel this is a topic which you can further explore in the future. Thank you for this!
Correlation value over IQ at 100 seems to be already well under the variance so not really meaningful, and if you look at what the researchers call Originality, the correlation is actually negative over IQ 110.
Just as a correction to your comment, I am not stating this as an adamant fact, but as an "indication" not a "demonstration", I said: "indicated by recent research"
I understand the reference I pointed out has a limited scope (Chinese children, age 11-13), as any research of this kind, but beyond the rigorous scientific demonstration of this concept, I am expressing the fact that IQ tests are very incomplete, which is not novel.
Thank you for your response.
Consistency in research fields and protection against elementary methodological malpractices such as p-hacking and the like should be enforced through automation. IQ over median does not correlate with creativity over median, as indicated by recent research, so i wouldn't worry too much about this side of your argument. I think future research in general has to contemplate what is the best way to harvest human creativity while ensuring that consistency, novelty and methodological robustness are enforced through automation.
Thank you for this! A comprehensive and direct overview of current standing when it comes to priorities for minimizing AI Risk and related governance discussions.
A very crucial piece of this is global coordination which you correctly emphasize.
I like the taxonomy : The Forceful, The Cutthroat and The Gentle paths.
In my perspective the road to really minimizing risk in any of those 3 scenarios is establishing strong communality in communication of moral and cultural values which I feel is the solid basis for mutual understanding. I think this could allow for a long term minimization of a faulty coordination, be it in a single nation leadership scenario or any of the more distributed... (read more)
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I am a Brazilian AI/ML engineer and data scientist, I have been following the rationalist community for around 10 years now, originally as a fan of Scott Alexander's Slate Star Codex where I came to know of Eliezer and Lesswrong as a community, along with the rationalist enterprise.
I only recently created my user and started posting here, currently, I’m experiencing a profound sense of urgency regarding the technical potential of AI and its impact on the world. With seven years of experience in machine learning, I’ve witnessed how the stable and scalable use of data can be crucial in building trustworthy governance systems. I’m passionate about contributing to initiatives that ensure... (read more)
This a very relevant discussion which should be the backbone of the decision making of anyone being part of the general effort towards AI alignment.
It is important to point out however that this is maybe just an instance of a more general problem which is related to the fact that in general any form of power or knowledge can be used for good or bad purposes, and advancing power and knowledge becomes always a double edged sword.
Doesn't seem to me like there is an escape to the moral variance that humans experience as part of their natural + developed proclivities.
The only chance we have against such great power and knowledge as AI enables is to really enlighten with clarity how is it that these technical pieces can come together for one edge or another.
Bringing the problem to light is our best chance.
Very powerful reasoning. I would add that a relevant form of self-deception that should be investigated in this framework is religious faith, given its place as as foundational to societies worldwide.
Religious faith seems like an optimal form of solution to hostile telepaths problem, in certain contexts it seems like a mixture of the three solutions you outlined. (Newcomblike self-deception, Having power and Occlumency)
Religious faith seems to provide psychological power through feelings of absolute certainty and over-confidence that religious people experience. At the same time, the conversion to religions is correlated with overcoming PTSD and addiction (step 2 of the 12 steps program: "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could... (read more)
In my last post on Lesswrong I shared ragenesis.com platform, along with a general description of the thought process behind the platform's development. Fundamentally, RAGenesis is a search and research AI driven software tool dedicated to 5 of the most representative holy texts in history: The Torah, The Bhagavad Gita, The Analects, The Bible's new testament and The Quran.
Beyond that, the platform (and my previous article) explores the concept of Semantic Similarity Networks (SSN), whereby one is able to represent the mutual similarities between chunks in the embedded knowledge base through a graph representation, following a similar framework to Microsoft's GraphRAG, but providing the user a direct interface with the network through... (read 3290 more words →)
a prototype and some thoughts on semantics
Before reading this article I strongly encourage you to Checkout the RAGenesis App!
Full code available at https://github.com/JoaoRibeiroMedeiros/RAGenesisOSS.
Having led the development of several software products... (read 8467 more words →)
I love this! Clarity (and clearance xD [latin pun here]) is all we need.
One addition which I think can be relevant to the discussion on optimization and meta-strategizing is also the acknowledgement of the simple fact that to meta-strategize you need to apply time to something which does not immediately returns backlog completion.
So to be quicker in the future, you have to invest time which at first will appear to slow you down, that's something which needs to be underscored given the reality of day jobs in engineering and related areas.
Recognizing the need for principles, is also conditioned on in part disregarding the immediacy of the ungeneralized day-to-day task. That's meta-management right there.