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• HideNov 14, 2023, 10:30 PM

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  on: More metal less ore

  All good practices. Although, isn’t this just “more metal”, rather than “less ore”? I imagine one would want to maximize both the inputs and outputs, even if opportunities for increasing inputs are exhausted more quickly.

• HideNov 5, 2023, 10:39 PM

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  on: Stuxnet, not Skynet: Hu­man­ity’s dis­em­pow­er­ment by AI

  How is such a failure of imagination possible?
  
  It’s odd to claim that, contingent upon AGI being significantly smarter than us, and wanting to kill us, that there is no realistic pathway for us to be physically harmed.

  Claims of this sort by intelligent, competent people likely reveal that they are passively objecting to the contingencies rather than disputing whether these contingencies would lead to the conclusion.

  The quotes you’re responding to here superficially imply “if smart + malicious AI, it can’t kill us”, but it seems much more likely this is a warped translation of either “AI can’t be smart”, or “AI can’t be malicious”.

• HideOct 26, 2023, 5:29 AM

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  on: Ly­ing to chess play­ers for alignment

  I would happily play the role of B.

  I do not have an established FIDE rating, but my strength is approximately 1850 FIDE currently (based on playing against FIDE rated players OTB quite often, as well as maintaining 2100-2200 blitz ratings on Lichess & Chess.com, and 2200-2300 bullet). I’d be available after 6:30 pm (UTC+10) until ~12:00 pm (UTC+10). Alternatively, weekends are very flexible. I could do a few hours per week.

  I agree short/​long time controls are a relevant, because speed is a skill that is almost entirely independent of conceptual knowledge and is mostly a function of baseline playing ability.

  Edit: Would also be fine with C

• HideOct 22, 2023, 10:32 PM

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  on: AI Safety is Drop­ping the Ball on Clown At­tacks, and Mind Con­trol in General

  Strongly agree. To my utter bewilderment, Eliezer appears to be exacerbating this vulnerability by making no efforts whatsoever to appear credible to the casual person.
  
  In nearly all of his public showings in the last 2 years, he has:

  • Rocked up in a trilby

  • Failed to adequately introduce himself

  • Spoken in condescending, aloof and cryptic tones; and

  • Failed to articulate the central concerns in an intuitive manner

  As a result, to the layperson, he comes off as an egotistical, pessimistic nerd with fringe views—a perfect clown from which to retreat to a “middle ground”, perhaps offered by the eminently reasonable-sounding Yann LeCun—who, after all, is Meta’s chief AI scientist.

  The alignment community is dominated by introverted, cerebral rationalists and academics, and consequently, a common failure is to ignore the significance of image as either a distraction or an afterthought.