nsokolsky

• nsokolskyJun 14, 2022, 3:23 PM

  3 points

  in reply to: anonymousaisafety’s comment on: Con­tra EY: Can AGI de­stroy us with­out trial & er­ror?

  You should make a separate post on “Can AGI just simulate the physical world?”. Will make it easier to find and reference in the future.

• nsokolskyJun 14, 2022, 3:21 PM

  3 points

  in reply to: PeterMcCluskey’s comment on: Con­tra EY: Can AGI de­stroy us with­out trial & er­ror?

  “but with humanity being overwhelmed by the number of different kinds of attack.”

  But AGI will only be able to start carrying out these sneaky attacks once its fairly convinced it can survive without human help? Otherwise humans will notice the various problems propping up and might just decide to “burn all GPUs” which is currently an unimaginable act.. So AGI will have to act sneakily behind the scenes for a very long time. This is again coming back to the argument that humans have a strong upper hand as long as we’ve got monopoly on physical world manipulation.

• nsokolsky 14 Jun 2022 15:02 UTC

  5 points

  in reply to: lc’s comment on: Con­tra EY: Can AGI de­stroy us with­out trial & er­ror?

  People here shouldn’t assume that, because Eliezer never posted a detailed analysis on LessWrong, everyone on the doomer train is starting from unreasonable premises regarding how robot building and research could function in practice.

  I agree but unfortunately my Google-fu wasn’t strong enough to find detailed prior explanations of AGI vs. robot research. I’m looking forward to your explanation.

• nsokolsky 13 Jun 2022 22:38 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: anonymousaisafety’s comment on: Con­tra EY: Can AGI de­stroy us with­out trial & er­ror?

  Those are excellent comments! Do you mind if I add a few quotes from them to the post?

Con­tra EY: Can AGI de­stroy us with­out trial & er­ror?

• nsokolsky 2 May 2022 20:25 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Joey’s comment on: Seat­tle ACX Schel­ling Meetup 2022

  Physical space = did you like that the meetup was in Capitol Hill? (ignoring that it was at Optimism specifically)

  Venue = did you like that the meetup was in Optimism Brewing? (ignoring that its located in Cap Hill)

• nsokolsky 2 May 2022 5:13 UTC

  1 point

  on: Seat­tle ACX Schel­ling Meetup 2022

  Thank you for attending! The guessing jar count is… 1400. And the winner is Utna D /​ @regexkind with a guess of 1425. The median guess (excluding the 1 outlier) was 1374, which was remarkably close! The full data is here: https://​​tinyurl.com/​​4vdv346f

  I wasn’t able to find Utna/​@regexkind’s email or Facebook, so please reach out to me to claim your $50 prize!

  And if you have a free minute, I’d appreciate if you could fill out a survey about the meetup: https://​​forms.gle/​​yZJQQTKJYSsKiB5XA. Responses will be shared with Scott Alexander and other meetup organizers, to help make the next one even better.

Seat­tle ACX Schel­ling Meetup 2022