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DragonGod

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Theoretical Computer Science Msc student at the University of [Redacted] in the United Kingdom.

I’m an aspiring alignment theorist; my research vibes are descriptive formal theories of intelligent systems (and their safety properties) with a bias towards constructive theories.

I think it’s important that our theories of intelligent systems remain rooted in the characteristics of real world intelligent systems; we cannot develop adequate theory from the null string as input.

Open & Wel­come Thread—Jan­uary 2023

DragonGod7 Jan 2023 11:16 UTC
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[Question] [Dis­cus­sion] How Broad is the Hu­man Cog­ni­tive Spec­trum?

DragonGod7 Jan 2023 0:56 UTC
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The Limit of Lan­guage Models

DragonGod6 Jan 2023 23:53 UTC
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[Question] De­fault Sort for Short­forms is Very Bad; How Do I Change It?

DragonGod2 Jan 2023 21:50 UTC
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[Question] Why The Fo­cus on Ex­pected Utility Max­imisers?

DragonGod27 Dec 2022 15:49 UTC
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Against Agents as an Ap­proach to Aligned Trans­for­ma­tive AI

DragonGod27 Dec 2022 0:47 UTC
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Con­tra Steiner on Too Many Nat­u­ral Abstractions

DragonGod24 Dec 2022 17:42 UTC
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[Question] [DISC] Are Values Ro­bust?

DragonGod21 Dec 2022 1:00 UTC
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[In­com­plete] What is Com­pu­ta­tion Any­way?

DragonGod14 Dec 2022 16:17 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

Why I’m Scep­ti­cal of Foom

DragonGod8 Dec 2022 10:01 UTC
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“Far Co­or­di­na­tion”

DragonGod23 Nov 2022 17:14 UTC
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X-risk Miti­ga­tion Does Ac­tu­ally Re­quire Longter­mism

DragonGod14 Nov 2022 12:54 UTC
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In Defence of Tem­po­ral Dis­count­ing in Longter­mist Ethics

DragonGod13 Nov 2022 21:54 UTC
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[Question] Should I Pur­sue a PhD?

DragonGod6 Nov 2022 10:58 UTC
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[Sketch] Val­idity Cri­te­rion for Log­i­cal Counterfactuals

DragonGod11 Oct 2022 13:31 UTC
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“Free Will” in a Com­pu­ta­tional Universe

DragonGod22 Sep 2022 21:25 UTC
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Ini­tial Thoughts on Dis­solv­ing “Could­ness”

DragonGod22 Sep 2022 21:23 UTC
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[Question] Are Hu­man Brains Univer­sal?

DragonGod15 Sep 2022 15:15 UTC
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[Question] Why Do Peo­ple Think Hu­mans Are Stupid?

DragonGod14 Sep 2022 13:55 UTC
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[Question] Are Speed Su­per­in­tel­li­gences Fea­si­ble for Modern ML Tech­niques?

DragonGod14 Sep 2022 12:59 UTC
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