On Skype with Eliezer, I said: “Eliezer, you’ve been unusually pleasant these past three weeks. I’m really happy to see that, and moreover, it increases my probability than an Eliezer-led FAI research team will work. What caused this change, do you think?”
Eliezer replied: “Well, three weeks ago I was working with Anna and Alicorn, and every time I said something nice they fed me an M&M.”
Hopefully now that the experiment is over, they will return to the original schedule of giving M&Ms for new HPMoR chapters. Seriously, people are suffering here. :D
Made me smile. Thanks for sharing.
Hopefully now that the experiment is over, they will return to the original schedule of giving M&Ms for new HPMoR chapters. Seriously, people are suffering here. :D
Too infrequent. They need to start by giving him an M&M every time he thinks about writing more HPMoR.
But then when he starts actually writing, Eliezer will become diabetic!
Shush, don’t give away the plan!
But seriously, one can always increase the reward threshold once the first behavior has been firmly established.
If he gets into flow quickly he could be safe. That would mean he is writing more HPMoR but not thinking about writing HPMoR.