sayan

• sayanSep 4, 2019, 8:55 AM

  6 points

  on: Sayan’s Braindump

  Would CIRL with many human agents realistically model our world?

  What does AI alignment mean with respect to many humans with different goals? Are we implicitly assuming (with all our current agendas) that the final model of AGI is to being corrigible with one human instructor?

  How do we synthesize goals of so many human agents into one utility function? Are we assuming solving alignment with one supervisor is easier? Wouldn’t having many supervisors restrict the space meaningfully?

• sayanSep 4, 2019, 8:53 AM

  1 point

  on: Sayan’s Braindump

  Where is the paradigm for Effective Activism? On a first thought, it doesn’t even seem to be difficult to do better than status quo.

Sayan’s Braindump

• sayanSep 4, 2019, 8:28 AM

  8 points

  on: Towards a New Im­pact Measure

  Quick question. Given that now the Conservative Agency paper is available, what am I missing if I just read the paper and not this post? It seems easier to me to follow the notations of the paper. Is there any significant difference between the formalization of this post and the paper?

• sayanJul 18, 2019, 5:36 AM

  1 point

  in reply to: eigen’s comment on: What is your Per­sonal Knowl­edge Man­age­ment sys­tem?

  I read books on multiple devices—GNU/​Linux, Android, and Kindle. Last time I checked, Calibre was too feature-rich and heavy, but lacked a simple getting-out-of-my way workflow for syncing my reading between devices. Is there a better solution now?

• sayanJul 17, 2019, 6:00 AM

  1 point

  in reply to: mwgkgk’s comment on: What is your Per­sonal Knowl­edge Man­age­ment sys­tem?

  I love how you emphasized learning Unix tools. I use other things mentioned here except tmux. Would you be willing to share your tmux workflow in more detail with keybindings?

[Question] What is your Per­sonal Knowl­edge Man­age­ment sys­tem?

• sayanJul 16, 2019, 5:22 PM

  1 point

  on: Over­com­ing Akra­sia/​Pro­cras­ti­na­tion—Vol­un­teers Wanted

  I am interested!

[Question] Un­known Un­knowns in AI Alignment

• sayanSep 2, 2018, 11:27 AM

  2 points

  on: Open Thread Septem­ber 2018

  Just finished reading Yuval Noah Harari’s new book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Primary reaction: even if you already know all the things being presented in the book, it is worth a read just because of the clarity into the discussion the book offers.

• sayanAug 13, 2018, 5:43 PM

  7 points

  on: New pa­per: Long-Term Tra­jec­to­ries of Hu­man Civilization

  This is an amazingly comprehensive and useful paper. I wish it was longer with little summaries of some papers it references, rather than just citing them.

  I also wish somebody creates a video version of it in the spirit of CGP Grey’s video on the classic Bostrom paper, so that I can just redirect people to the video instead of sub-optimally trying to explain all these things myself.

• sayanAug 13, 2018, 4:12 AM

  1 point

  in reply to: NaiveTortoise’s comment on: Open Thread Au­gust 2018

  Shared the draft with you. Please let me know your feedback.

• sayanAug 12, 2018, 1:05 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: Pattern’s comment on: Open Thread Au­gust 2018

  Shared the draft with you. Feel free to comment and question.

• sayanAug 9, 2018, 8:17 AM

  7 points

  on: Open Thread Au­gust 2018

  I have started to write a series of rigorous introductory blogposts on Reinforcement Learning for people with no background in it. This is totally experimental and I would love to have some feedback on my draft. Please let me know if anyone is interested.