What are the two other mechanisms of action?
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AXRP Episode 30 - AI Security with Jeffrey Ladish
In my post, I didn’t require the distribution over meanings of words to be uniform. It could be any distribution you wanted—it just resulted in the prior ratio of “which utterance is true” being 1:1.
AXRP Episode 29 - Science of Deep Learning with Vikrant Varma
Is this just the thing where evidence is theory-laden? Like, for example, how the evidentiary value of the WHO report on the question of COVID origins depends on how likely one thinks it is that people would effectively cover up a lab leak?
To be clear, this is an equivalent way of looking at normal prior-ful inference, and doesn’t actually solve any practical problem you might have. I mostly see it as a demonstration of how you can shove everything into stuff that gets expressed as likelihood functions.
Why wouldn’t this construction work over a continuous space?
Bayesian inference without priors
AXRP Episode 28 - Suing Labs for AI Risk with Gabriel Weil
Thanks for finding this! Will link it in the transcript.
oops, thanks for the reminder
Sorry, it will be a bit before the video uploads. I’ll hide the link until then.
Proposal: merge with the separate tag “AI Control”
AXRP Episode 27 - AI Control with Buck Shlegeris and Ryan Greenblatt
Daniel Kahneman has died
How would you rate the Book of Mormon as a book? What’s your favourite part?
I recently heard of the book How to leave the Mormon church by Alyssa Grenfell, which might be good. Based on an interview with the author, it seemed like it was focussed on nuts-and-bolts stuff (e.g. “practically how do you explore alcohol in a way that isn’t dangerous”) and explicitly avoiding a permanent state of having an “ex-mormon” identity, which strikes me as healthy (altho I think some doubt is warranted on how good the advice is, given that the author’s social media presence is primarily focussed on being ex-mormon). The book is associated with a website.
NB: I have a casual interest in high-demand religions, but have never been a part of one (with the arguable exception of the rationality/EA community).
My guess is this won’t work in all cases, because norm enforcement is usually yes/no, and needs to be judged by people with little information. They can’t handle “you can do any 2 of these 5 things, but no more” or “you can do this but only if you implement it really skillfully”. So either everyone is allowed to impose 80 hour weeks, or no one can work 80 hour weeks, and I don’t like either of those options.
I think this might be wrong—for example, my understanding is that there are some kinds of jobs where it’s considered normal for people to work 80-hour weeks, and other kinds where it isn’t. Maybe the issue is that the “kind of job” norms can easily operate on lets you pick out things like “finance” but not “jobs that have already made one costly vulnerability bid”?
Is there going to be some sort of slack or discord for attendees?