KvmanThinking

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Just someone wandering the internet. Someone smart, but not smart like all of you people. Someone silly and creative. Someone who wanders the internet to find cool, isolated areas like LessWrong.

The universe is so awesome and crazy and interesting and I can’t wait for when humanity is advanced enough to understand all of it. While you people figure out solutions to the various messes our species is in, (I would prefer for homo sapiens to still exist in 20 years) I’ll be standing by for emotional support because I’m nowhere near smart enough to be doing any of that actually important stuff. Remember to have good mental health while you’re saving the world.

Pronouns: he/him

KvmanThinking 23 Jan 2025 0:33 UTC
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in reply to: Robert Cousineau’s comment on: are there 2 types of alignment?
by “making an AI that builds utopia and stuff” I mean an AI that would act in such a way that rather than simply obeying the intent of its promptors, it goes and actively improves the world in the optimal way. An AI which has fully worked out Fun Theory and simply goes around filling the universe with pleasure and beauty and freedom and love and complexity in such a way that no other way would be more Fun.

KvmanThinking 22 Jan 2025 22:38 UTC
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on: Finding gliders in the game of life
it will not consider it acceptable to kill me and instantly replace me with a perfect copy
Why not? I would find this acceptable, considering you are your information system.

KvmanThinking 22 Jan 2025 2:08 UTC
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on: Why am I still alive? (a time capsule)
I disagree with your disagreement of Eliezer and Connor’s conclusions, but I still upvoted because you worded your argument and response quite well. Judging from your comments, you seem not to have a very high opinion of LessWrong, and yet you choose to interact anyways, because you would like to counterargue. You think we are just a big echo chamber of doom, and yet you learn our jargon. Good job. I disagree with what you say, but thank you for being the dissent we encourage. If you would like to know why we believe what we do, you would do well to read the Superintelligence FAQ, especially Question 4.

KvmanThinking 18 Dec 2024 0:54 UTC
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on: Trying to be rational for the wrong reasons
I have an irrational preference
If your utility function weights you knowing things higher than most people’s, that is not an irrationality.

KvmanThinking 17 Dec 2024 2:22 UTC
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in reply to: Maxwell Peterson’s comment on: are IQ tests a good measure of intelligence?
It’s “101”? I searched the regular internet to find out, but I got some yes’s and some no’s, which I suspect were just due to different definitions of intelligence.

It’s controversial?? Has that stopped us before? When was it done to death?

I’m just confused, because if people downvote my stuff, they’re probably trying to tell me something, and I don’t know what it is. So I’m just curious.

KvmanThinking 16 Dec 2024 12:26 UTC
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in reply to: Ustice’s comment on: are IQ tests a good measure of intelligence?
Thanks. By the way, do you know why this question is getting downvoted?

KvmanThinking 13 Dec 2024 14:05 UTC
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in reply to: johnswentworth’s comment on: fake alignment solutions????
I already figured that. The point of this question was to ask if there could possibly exist things that look indistinguishable from true alignment solutions (even to smart people), but that aren’t actually alignment solutions. Do you think things like this could exist?

By the way, good luck with your plan. Seeing people actively go out and do actually meaningful work to save the world gives me hope for the future. Just try not to burn out. Smart people are more useful to humanity when their mental health is in good shape.

KvmanThinking 11 Dec 2024 12:27 UTC
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in reply to: quila’s comment on: fake alignment solutions????
1. Yes, human intelligence augmentation sounds like a good idea.
2. There are all sorts of “strategies” (turn it off, raise it like a kid, disincentivize changing the environment, use a weaker AI to align it) that people come up with when they’re new to the field of AI safety, but that are ineffective. And their ineffectiveness is only obvious and explainable by people who specifically know how AI behaves. Supposes there are strategies which ineffectiveness is only obvious and explainable by people who know way more about decisions and agents and optimal strategies and stuff than humanity has currently figured out thus far. (Analogy: A society who only know basic arithmetic could reasonably stumble upon and understand the Collatz conjecture; and yet, with all our mathematical development, we can’t do anything to prove it. Just like we could reasonably stumble upon an “alignment solution” that we can’t disprove that it would work, because that would take a much higher understanding of these kinds of situations.)
3. If the solution to alignment were simple, we would have found it by now. Humans are far from simple, human brains are far from simple, human behavior is far from simple. That there is one simple thing from which comes all of our values, or a simple way to derive such a thing, just seems unlikely.

KvmanThinking 10 Dec 2024 19:00 UTC
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in reply to: Kaj_Sotala’s comment on: [Fiction] Lena (MMAcevedo)
Uh, this is a human. Humans find it much harder to rationalize away the suffering of other humans, compared to rationalizing animal suffering.

KvmanThinking 10 Dec 2024 1:55 UTC
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on: [Fiction] Lena (MMAcevedo)
And the regular, average people in this future timeline consider stuff like this ethically okay?

KvmanThinking 4 Dec 2024 18:19 UTC
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in reply to: MugaSofer’s comment on: I attempted the AI Box Experiment (and lost)
hack reality via pure math
What—exactly—do you mean by that?

KvmanThinking 27 Nov 2024 3:04 UTC
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in reply to: johnswentworth’s comment on: You are not too “irrational” to know your preferences.
The above statement could be applied to a LOT of other posts too, not just this one.

KvmanThinking 23 Nov 2024 14:15 UTC
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in reply to: Marcus Williams’s comment on: Have we seen any “ReLU instead of sigmoid-type improvements” recently
How were these discovered? Slow, deliberate thinking, or someone trying some random thing to see what it does and suddenly the AI is a zillion times smarter?

KvmanThinking 19 Nov 2024 22:17 UTC
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in reply to: Aegeus’s comment on: Eutopia is Scary
I certainly believe he could. After reading Tamsin Leake’s “everything is okay” (click the link if you dare), I felt a little unstable, and felt like I had to expend deliberate effort to not think about the described world in sufficient detail in order to protect my sanity. I felt like I was reading something that had been maximized by a semi-powerful AI to be moving, almost infohazardously moving, but not quite; that this approached the upper bound of what humans could read while still accepting the imperfection of their current conditions.

KvmanThinking 19 Nov 2024 20:24 UTC
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on: The case for turning glowfic into Sequences
utopia
It’s a protopia. It is a word better than ours. It is not perfect. It would be advisable to keep this in mind. dath ilan likely has its own, separate problems.

KvmanThinking 14 Nov 2024 23:23 UTC
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on: The Treacherous Path to Rationality
And I’m not even mentioning the strange sexual dynamics
Is this a joke? I’m confused.

KvmanThinking 14 Nov 2024 2:01 UTC
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in reply to: Matvey_Ezhov’s comment on: A map of Bay Area memespace
yeah, the moment i looked at the big diagram my brain sort of pleasantly overheated

KvmanThinking 14 Nov 2024 0:32 UTC
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in reply to: MarkusRamikin’s comment on: No Safe Defense, Not Even Science
I think the flaw is how he claims this:
No one begins to truly search for the Way until their parents have failed them, their gods are dead, and their tools have shattered in their hand.
I think that these three things are not things that cause a desire for rationality, but things that rationality makes you notice.

KvmanThinking 13 Nov 2024 22:44 UTC
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in reply to: billswift’s comment on: No Safe Defense, Not Even Science
why is this so downvoted? just curious

KvmanThinking 11 Nov 2024 1:24 UTC
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in reply to: notfnofn’s comment on: how to truly feel my beliefs?
If I am not sufficiently terrified by the prospect of our extinction, I will not take as much steps to try and reduce its likelihood. If my subconscious does not internalize this sufficiently, I will not be as motivated. Said subconscious happiness affects my conscious reasoning without me consciously noticing.