I think that using the term “effective altruist” causes a lot of problems with labeling (e.g. ‘hardcore EA’, ‘softcore EA’). My thinking clarified when I began using only the term “effective altruism”, and using it to stimulate asking, “how can I do the most good for each dollar of mine?”
http://effective-altruism.com/ea/9s/effective_altruism_is_a_question_not_an_ideology/
Hi ChristianKI, I was trying to find out from Pete what the winning would look like for the specific problems CFAR has in mind.
The causes in your links are very diverse, from biosecurity to AI risk. I ’d assumed that CFAR focused only on a couple of the most pressing problems. But I haven’t heard officially what problems CFAR wants to solve the most.
Hi Pete, could you please give some examples of what you mean by “the world’s most important problems”?
I don’t have money to give now, but perhaps I could just work on a problem directly.
Here’s an article that has an abstract in the first paragraph (although it’d be nice if it were called out as such), and a table of contents.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/md2/the_brain_as_a_universal_learning_machine/
I love these techniques and can’t wait to try them out. Would you consider putting in an abstract with the 4 techniques? You could even throw in the one-sentence summaries from ScottL so that other readers can quickly get the gist before delving in further.
Thank you for clarifying this point.
FYI I was referring only to “Cryonics” when I said cryo in the parent comment, not to “suspended animation”.
Clarity, you can find more bioparts at the ICE public registry:
https://public-registry.jbei.org/login
(full disclosure: this is software written and maintained by my employer)
CronoDAS, I’m glad you brought up this issue. Sadly, I don’t think there’s good evidence that cryo, as practiced today, works. I think it is reasonable (but of course, not ideal) for people to dismiss things which are only theoretically possible but not practically possible.
If we had verifiably working cryo today, it might be easier to change people’s minds.
Hey Alexvermeer, could you give more details on the opportunities for advancement?
Hey lululu, this was a great article! I found it very useful in dealing with rejection by a long-standing crush. Thanks for writing this.
I’m curious: what was your process for determining the best way to get over a relationship? Did you just search for that term in Google Scholar?
Whoa! If that’s true then Alcor should offer necklaces (different looking from thereal ones) that say something like “I stand against death!”. That way people can signal allegiance without having to go through all the cryo paperworks.
I absolutely agree with you that there are correctible shortcomings in today’s cryonics practice; I also agree that we’ll need a whole lot of neuroscience and cryobio to make further progress.
The Mikula paper linked in the article shows one possible avenue to verifiable cryo. The technology exists today: getting the engineering right so that it can be rolled out to paying customers seems to be the difficulty.
Would you reconsider if you saw successful revival of a small organism? C. Elegans? A mouse?
An abstract as the very first thing would help. An outline would be better.
Here are the paragraphs that I thought were the main point of the article (please correct this if I’m wrong):
“These two conceptions of the brain—the universal learning machine hypothesis and the evolved modularity hypothesis—lead to very different predictions for the likely route to AGI, the expected differences between AGI and humans, and thus any consequent safety issues and strategies.”
and
“Current ANN engines can already train and run models with around 10 million neurons and 10 billion (compressed/shared) synapses on a single GPU, which suggests that the goal could soon be within the reach of a large organization. Furthermore, Moore’s Law for GPUs still has some steam left, and software advances are currently improving simulation performance at a faster rate than hardware. These trends implies that Anthropomorphic/Neuromorphic AGI could be surprisingly close, and may appear suddenly.
What kind of leverage can we exert on a short timescale?”
Hi jacob_cannell, this article looks really interesting but it is a LOT to consume at once. Could you please put a summary at the top with the main points so that it makes the post easier to navigate?
Hi Jonah, this article is very intriguing since I might be going through a similar phase as you. Please add me to any list of collaborators you’re drawing up.
Thank you, SquirrellinHell, for sharing your mind. I’m enjoying browsing through the triiger-action plans and trying them on :)