Next meetup will be February 24 - RSVP here.
Also there will be another article discussion group on February 18th, details and RSVP here.
Owing to a tragic laundry mishap, I'll actually be wearing a dark blue Waikiki Aquarium t-shirt with an octopus on it.
The next meetup will be on January 27th - RSVP here.
Also there will be an article discussion meeting on January 20th, discussing financial markets and investment.
The next meetup will be December 16th - RSVP here.
Also, one of our attendees is interested in having a recurring article discussion group and has scheduled an event in St. Paul on December 9th, which I encourage you to attend.
Looks like today will be on the lighter side, so if anybody has a board or card game that doesn't take too long, I suggest you bring it. I will bring my copy of Race For The Galaxy.
Also, for the "Meetups Everywhere" events there is a central coordinator and they have a survey - if willing, you can fill it out here.
All - I came down with a slight fever later yesterday. I took a rapid COVID test this morning and it came back negative, so I leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine the odds that I have COVID, but I might have given you some other disease. Sorry about that.
The next meetup will be September 16th - RSVP [here](The next meetup will be September 16th - RSVP here.
(Sorry for the handful of you who may be notified repeatedly - the summer meetup was unusually low in attendance so I figured I would play it safe and post this to the past two.)
Apologies for the late notice, the next event is this coming Saturday. RSVP here: https://www.lesswrong.com/events/jo6uxJuh4DLkx2Exx/twin-cities-acx-meetup-june-2023
I feel like this metaphor doesn't strike me as accurate because humanity can engage in commerce and insects cannot.
But also humanity causes a lot of environmental degradation but we still don't actually want to bring about the wholesale destruction of the environment.
I have a few objections here:
Even when objectives aren't aligned, that doesn't mean the outcome is literally death. No corporation I interact with us aligned with me, but in many/most cases I am still better off for being able to transact with them.
I think there are plenty of scenarios where "humanity continues to exist" has benefits for AI - we are a source of training data and probably lots of other useful resources, and letting us continue to exist is not a huge investment, since we are mostly self-sustaining. Maybe this isn't literally "being ali
This is a common problem with a lot of these hypothetical AI scenarios - WHY does the Oracle do this? How did the process of constructing this AI somehow make it want to eventually cause some negative consequence?
Invite for the next meetup (March 24th) is now up - see here: https://www.lesswrong.com/events/Bf9rqXH93FtkAj6a5/twin-cities-acx-meetup-mar-2023
Invite for the next meetup (March 24th) is now up - see here: https://www.lesswrong.com/events/Bf9rqXH93FtkAj6a5/twin-cities-acx-meetup-mar-2023
The next meetup will be on March 23 - RSVP here.