That suggestion would make LW a sad and lonely place.
Trust me, an LW without XiXiDu is neither a sad nor lonely place, as evidenced by his multiple attempts at leaving.
So, why MIRI’s claims aren’t accepted by the mainstream, then? Is it because all the “trained computer scientiests” [sic] are too dumb or too lazy to see the truth? Or is it the case that the “evidence” is contested, ambiguous, and inconclusive?
Mainstream CS people are in general neither dumb nor lazy. AI as a field is pretty fringe to begin with, and AGI is moreso. Why is AI a fringe field? In the 70′s MIT thought they could save the world with LISP. They failed, and the rest of CS became immunized to the claims of AGI.
Unless an individual sees AGI as a credible threat, it’s not pragmatic for them to start researching it, due to the various social and political pressures in academia.
I read the grandparent post as an attempt to assert authority and tell people to sit down, shut up, and attend to their betters.
I don’t have a PhD in AI and don’t work for MIRI. Is there some kind of special phrasing I can recite in order to indicate I actually, genuinely perceive this as a difference of knowledge levels rather than a status dispute?
Is there some kind of special phrasing I can recite in order to indicate I actually, genuinely perceive this as a difference of knowledge levels rather than a status dispute?
Special phrasing? What’s wrong with normal, usual, standard, widespread phrasing?
You avoid expressions like “I am a trained computer scientist” (which sounds pretty silly anyway—so you’ve been trained to do tricks for food, er, grants?) and you use words along the lines of “you misunderstand X because...”, “you do not take into account Y which says...”, “this claim is wrong because of Z...”, etc.
There is also, of course, the underappreciated option to just stay silent. I trust you know the appropriate xkcd?
“I am a trained computer scientist” (which sounds pretty silly anyway—so you’ve been trained to do tricks for food, er, grants?)
Yes, that’s precisely it. I have been trained to do tricks for free food/grants/salary. Some of them are quite complicated tricks, involving things like walking into my adviser’s office and pretending I actually believe p-values of less than 5% mean anything at all when we have 26 data corpuses. Or hell, pretending I actually believe in frequentism.
I find the latter justified after the years of harassment he’s heaped on anyone remotely related to MIRI in any forum he could manage to get posting privileges in. Honestly, I have no idea why he even bothered to return. What would have possibly changed this time?
paper-machine spends a lot of time and effort attempting to defame XiXiDu in a pile of threads. His claims tend not to check out, if you can extract one.
Trust me, an LW without XiXiDu is neither a sad nor lonely place, as evidenced by his multiple attempts at leaving.
Mainstream CS people are in general neither dumb nor lazy. AI as a field is pretty fringe to begin with, and AGI is moreso. Why is AI a fringe field? In the 70′s MIT thought they could save the world with LISP. They failed, and the rest of CS became immunized to the claims of AGI.
Unless an individual sees AGI as a credible threat, it’s not pragmatic for them to start researching it, due to the various social and political pressures in academia.
I read the grandparent post as an attempt to assert authority and tell people to sit down, shut up, and attend to their betters.
You’re reading it as a direct personal attack on XiXiDu.
Neither interpretation is particularly appealing.
I don’t have a PhD in AI and don’t work for MIRI. Is there some kind of special phrasing I can recite in order to indicate I actually, genuinely perceive this as a difference of knowledge levels rather than a status dispute?
Special phrasing? What’s wrong with normal, usual, standard, widespread phrasing?
You avoid expressions like “I am a trained computer scientist” (which sounds pretty silly anyway—so you’ve been trained to do tricks for food, er, grants?) and you use words along the lines of “you misunderstand X because...”, “you do not take into account Y which says...”, “this claim is wrong because of Z...”, etc.
There is also, of course, the underappreciated option to just stay silent. I trust you know the appropriate xkcd?
Yes, that’s precisely it. I have been trained to do tricks for free food/grants/salary. Some of them are quite complicated tricks, involving things like walking into my adviser’s office and pretending I actually believe p-values of less than 5% mean anything at all when we have 26 data corpuses. Or hell, pretending I actually believe in frequentism.
Oh, good. Just keep practicing and soon you’ll be a bona fide member of the academic establishment :-P
I find the latter justified after the years of harassment he’s heaped on anyone remotely related to MIRI in any forum he could manage to get posting privileges in. Honestly, I have no idea why he even bothered to return. What would have possibly changed this time?
Harassment..?
paper-machine spends a lot of time and effort attempting to defame XiXiDu in a pile of threads. His claims tend not to check out, if you can extract one.