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Hello, I'm working on mechanistic interpretability alongside technical alignment. I'm interested in AI governance and how technical work can inform policy.

I think another regulatory target, particularly around the distribution of individual GPUs, would be limiting enthusiast grade hardware (as opposed to Enterprise) to something like xGB where x is obligately readjusted every year based on risk assessments

3porby
Something like this may be useful, but I do struggle to come up with workable versions that try to get specific about hardware details. Most options yield Goodhart problems- e.g. shift the architecture a little bit so that real world ML performance per watt/dollar is unaffected, but it falls below the threshold because "it's not one GPU, see!" or whatever else. Throwing enough requirements at it might work, but it seems weaker as a category than "used in a datacenter" given how ML works at the moment. It could be that we have to bite the bullet and try for this kind of extra restriction anyway if ML architectures shift in such a way that internet-distributed ML becomes competitive, but I'm wary of pushing for it before that point because the restrictions would be far more visible to consumers. In summary, maybeshrugidunno!

Question: how is the criminal justice system not racist? As I understand it. There are no laws banning slavery in prison, so there were financial incentives to move enslaved people to prison and there are financial incentives today to put people in jail which results in the perpetuation of racial biases in law enforcement

What is the difference between studying Politics and studying History?

Some people with certain identities are actively politicized throughout history, not understanding politics and thus not understanding the memetics of the social world which has the power to enforce rules upon you is not advisable if you're a person with one such identity.

Should I attack the anti-trans legislature attacking many in my community today, in the year 2023? Should I defend the rights and freedoms of undocumented workers given their productivity per capita when adjusted for wa... (read more)

Not sure why I'm getting downvoted for posting a quote from a communist in a post about collective identity.

I can only reason they are coming from:

  1. people who closely associate with Milton Friedman's economic position
  2. people with values similar to those set forth by neoliberalism
  3. people who believe Karl Marx was a bad person
  4. similarly to 1, people whose ideologies were critized in his work

If you are not one of these, please let me know so I can adjust my thinking. If you identify with one of the above I think it's better to use the disagreement karma since I didn't say anything factually incorrect afaik

For beings like humans who should have individual identity, healthy collective identity is when that doesn't get overwritten

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all." - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, 1848

1nothoughtsheadempty
Not sure why I'm getting downvoted for posting a quote from a communist in a post about collective identity. I can only reason they are coming from: 1. people who closely associate with Milton Friedman's economic position 2. people with values similar to those set forth by neoliberalism 3. people who believe Karl Marx was a bad person 4. similarly to 1, people whose ideologies were critized in his work If you are not one of these, please let me know so I can adjust my thinking. If you identify with one of the above I think it's better to use the disagreement karma since I didn't say anything factually incorrect afaik

The times when humans get closest to not having their own values, and acting robustly on behalf of another agency’s[7] goals are when they adopt a sort of collective identity, for example as a part of a military, cult, or clan.

Or corporation, many humans act in ways that maximize the profits of a corporation even when they believe that the work they do is a little unethical.

I'm very glad that there's people thinking outside of the individualist bounds that we usually set for ourselves.

2the gears to ascension
I'd like to point out that the whole problem with those examples is they they claim to be individualist but very much are anything but. For beings like humans who should have individual identity, healthy collective identity is when that doesn't get overwritten. There are some great scenes in star trek that I like to use to reference what this is like, though of course sci-fi stories are just tools for thought and ultimately need to serve only as inspiration for precise mechanistic thought about the real versions of the same dynamics. The two I'd recommend for those who don't mind spoilers are the scene where we meet seven of nine, and the scene where jurati talks the queen into something important. I'll add links to the YouTube videos later.