somervta

De­ci­sion-the­o­retic prob­lems and The­o­ries; An (In­com­plete) com­par­a­tive list

• somervtaJun 18, 2015, 3:28 PM

  2 points

  on: In­trin­sic mo­ti­va­tion is cru­cial for over­com­ing akrasia

  Formatting note: something seems to have deleted a couple of your time units:

  I spent ~1500 working on genuinely original scientific research.

  and

  which subsumes the 100 old Poincare conjecture,

• somervtaJun 6, 2015, 10:28 PM

  1 point

  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: FAI Re­search Con­straints and AGI Side Effects

  Why do we need the full tower? Why couldn’t it be the case that just one (or some other finite number) of the Turing Oracle levels are physically possible?

• somervtaJun 5, 2015, 12:41 AM

  1 point

  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: FAI Re­search Con­straints and AGI Side Effects

  We don’t know that it’s physically impossible, although it does look that way, but even if we did that doesn’t mean it’s contradictory, not to the extent that using it you’ll “mostly derive paradox theorems and contradictions”.

• somervtaJun 5, 2015, 12:01 AM

  1 point

  in reply to: [deleted]’s comment on: FAI Re­search Con­straints and AGI Side Effects

  Why do you think that a hypercomputer is inherently contradictory?

• somervtaMay 6, 2015, 11:39 PM

  1 point

  on: On­line So­cial Groups?

  The LW Tumblr contingent has a Skype group.

• somervtaApr 2, 2015, 1:57 PM

  7 points

  in reply to: metatroll’s comment on: If You Like This Orange...

  The relevant test is ‘Do I want to see more things like this on LW’, and the answer is no, because I value clarity more than seeing things I would agree with did I understand them.

• somervtaMar 21, 2015, 11:24 AM

  10 points

  on: Er­ror margins

  Relevant previous LW posts on the A_p distribution and model stability

  http://​​lesswrong.com/​​lw/​​igv/​​probability_knowledge_and_metaprobability/​​

  http://​​lesswrong.com/​​lw/​​h78/​​estimate_stability/​​

  http://​​lesswrong.com/​​lw/​​hnf/​​model_stability_in_intervention_assessment/​​

• somervtaMar 20, 2015, 10:45 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: Kaj_Sotala’s comment on: Open thread, Mar. 16 - Mar. 22, 2015

  Interestingly, both concepts seem worthwhile to me… and I mostly advocate a combination of hedonistic and preference utilitarianism.

• somervtaMar 15, 2015, 12:17 AM

  8 points

  in reply to: Val’s comment on: [FINAL CHAPTER] Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, March 2015, chap­ter 122

  Eliezer said this would just have been Harry antimatter-suiciding and Hermione waking up in a flaming crater.

• somervtaMar 3, 2015, 4:28 AM

  5 points

  on: An­nounce­ment: The Se­quences eBook will be re­leased in mid-March

  Is the novel content written by you, Eliezer, or others?

• somervtaMar 2, 2015, 10:32 PM

  0 points

  in reply to: IlyaShpitser’s comment on: GCRI: Up­dated Strat­egy and AMA on EA Fo­rum next Tuesday

  Cool, that clears it up, thanks!

  (I got that you were being sarcastic, but I wasn’t clear which possible sucky thing you were disapproving of)

• somervtaFeb 28, 2015, 6:33 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: gwillen’s comment on: In­nate Math­e­mat­i­cal Ability

  I got the four, but not the rectangle—I just noticed that two elements only appeared three times.

• somervtaFeb 28, 2015, 5:47 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: Alicorn’s comment on: In­nate Math­e­mat­i­cal Ability

  Huh. I got the same answer, but a different way.

  Rnpu vgrz vf znqr hc bs gur cerfrapr be nofrapr bs bar bs fvk onfvp ryrzragf. Rnpu ryrzrag nccrnef sbhe gvzrf, rkprcg gubfr gjb.

• somervtaFeb 24, 2015, 12:14 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: IlyaShpitser’s comment on: GCRI: Up­dated Strat­egy and AMA on EA Fo­rum next Tuesday

  This comment confuses me.

• somervtaFeb 23, 2015, 11:30 PM

  3 points

  in reply to: Astazha’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Fe­bru­ary 2015, chap­ter 109

  sure?

  how sure are you, and how much do you have to bet?

• somervtaFeb 19, 2015, 1:46 AM

  3 points

  in reply to: eternal_neophyte’s comment on: An alarm­ing fact about the anti-ag­ing community

  There’s a Welcome Thread that you might want to check out!

• somervtaFeb 15, 2015, 4:02 AM

  0 points

  in reply to: Toggle’s comment on: AI-cre­ated pseudo-deontology

  it is if you can get evidence about your UF.

• somervtaJan 30, 2015, 11:48 PM

  4 points

  in reply to: solipsist’s comment on: Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Ra­tion­al­ity dis­cus­sion thread, Jan­uary 2015, chap­ter 103

  I think you overestimate the likelihood that EY even read your comment. I doubt he reads all comments on hpmor discussion anymore.

• somervtaJan 19, 2015, 10:43 AM

  1 point

  in reply to: hairyfigment’s comment on: Break­ing the vi­cious cycle

  Why was this trolling? This was in fact true, although Wei Dai’s UDT ended up giving rise to a better framework for future and more general DT work.