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Rangi10

Tay doesn't tell us much about deliberate Un-Friendliness. But Tay does tell us that a well-intentioned effort to make an innocent, harmless AI can go wrong for unexpected reasons. Even for reasons that, in hindsight, are obvious.

Are you sure that superintelligent AIs would have a "correct ontology/semantics"? They would have to have a useful one, in order to achieve their goals, but both philosophers and scientists have had incorrect conceptualizations that nevertheless matched the real world closely enough to be productive. And for an un-Friendly AI, "productive" translates to "using your atoms for its own purposes."

0The_Jaded_One
it's hard to imagine a superintelligent AGI that didn't know basic facts about the world like "trees have roots underground" or "most human beings sleep at night". Useful models of reality (useful in the sense of achieving goals) tend to be ones that are accurate. This is especially true of a single agent that isn't subject to the weird foibles of human psychology and isn't mainly achieving things via signalling like many humans do. The reason I made the point about having a correct understanding of the world, for example knowing what the term "Nazi" actually means, is that Tay has not achieved the status of being "unfriendly", because it doesn't actually have anything that could reasonably be called goals pertaining to the world. Tay is not even an unfriendly infra-intelligence. Though I'd be very interested if someone managed to make one.
Rangi50

California's Safe Harbor level for lead is 0.5 µg/day. The CDC's safe level is 10 µg/day, and was 25 µg/day from 1985 to 1991. 12−25 times 0.5 is 6−12.5 µg, which is basically within the CDC's safe level, and was only found in two samples. (Also, as Soylent's own reply pointed out, they tested version 1.5, and 2.0 has a different recipe with even lower—but still safe—levels.)

As You Sow has also found lead and cadmium levels above California's Safe Harbor threshold in 26 chocolate products, including Ghirardelli, Hershey, Mars, Trader Joe's, and Whole Foods... (read more)

Rangi60

With SumatraPDF 3.0 on Windows 8.1 x64, the links in the PDF version do not show up. With Adobe Reader 11 on Windows 7 x86, they look fine. On the other hand, SumatraPDF can also handle the MOBI and EPUB versions.

8bramflakes
I'm getting problems too. The contents pages look like this, for example.
Rangi-10

When confronting something which may be either a windmill or an evil giant, what question should you be asking? There are some who ask, "If we do nothing, and that is an evil giant, can we afford to be wrong?" These people consider themselves to be brave and vigilant. Some ask, "If we attack it wrongly, can we afford to pay to replace a windmill?" These people consider themselves cautious and pragmatic. Still others ask, "With the cost of being wrong so high in either case, shouldn't we always definitively answer the 'windmill vs.

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A good one, but a duplicate.

Rangi420

I took the survey. The BSRI reminds me of the MBTI, though, in that the questions are vague and I would probably give different answers depending on various factors, like what time it is or whom I've interacted with recently.

Rangi590

Made an account here to comment that I filled out the survey, and to make future participation more likely.