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Donald Hobson

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MMath Cambridge. Currently studying postgrad at Edinburgh.

An open re­sponse to Wit­tkot­ter and Yampolskiy

Donald Hobson24 Sep 2024 22:27 UTC
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Us­ing LLM’s for AI Foun­da­tion re­search and the Sim­ple Solu­tion assumption

Donald Hobson24 Sep 2024 11:00 UTC
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[Question] Is this vot­ing sys­tem strat­egy proof?

Donald Hobson6 Sep 2024 20:44 UTC
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Who is Harry Pot­ter? Some pre­dic­tions.

Donald Hobson24 Oct 2023 16:14 UTC
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[Question] What is wrong with this “util­ity switch but­ton prob­lem” ap­proach?

Donald Hobson25 Sep 2023 21:36 UTC
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[Question] What hap­pens with log­i­cal in­duc­tion when...

Donald Hobson26 Mar 2023 18:31 UTC
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Squeez­ing foun­da­tions re­search as­sis­tance out of for­mal logic nar­row AI.

Donald Hobson8 Mar 2023 9:38 UTC
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AI that shouldn’t work, yet kind of does

Donald Hobson23 Feb 2023 23:18 UTC
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My thoughts on OpenAI’s Align­ment plan

Donald Hobson10 Dec 2022 10:35 UTC
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In­stru­men­tal ig­nor­ing AI, Dumb but not use­less.

Donald Hobson30 Oct 2022 16:55 UTC
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A Data limited future

Donald Hobson6 Aug 2022 14:56 UTC
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The gen­er­al­ized Sier­pin­ski-Mazurk­iewicz the­o­rem.

Donald Hobson29 Jul 2022 0:12 UTC
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Train first VS prune first in neu­ral net­works.

Donald Hobson9 Jul 2022 15:53 UTC
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Vi­su­al­iz­ing Neu­ral net­works, how to blame the bias

Donald Hobson9 Jul 2022 15:52 UTC
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On cor­rigi­bil­ity and its basin

Donald Hobson20 Jun 2022 16:33 UTC
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Axis ori­ented programming

Donald Hobson20 Apr 2022 13:22 UTC
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Fic­tion: My al­ter­nate earth story.

Donald Hobson16 Apr 2022 19:06 UTC
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Ex­plor­ing toy neu­ral nets un­der node re­moval. Sec­tion 1.

Donald Hobson13 Apr 2022 23:30 UTC
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How BoMAI Might fail

Donald Hobson7 Apr 2022 15:32 UTC
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Be­ware us­ing words off the prob­a­bil­ity dis­tri­bu­tion that gen­er­ated them.

Donald Hobson19 Dec 2021 16:52 UTC
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