What are some basic beginner resources someone can use to understand the flood of complex AI posts currently on the front page? (Maybe I’m being ignorant, but I haven’t found a sequence dedicated to AI...yet.)
There is no non-tradition-of-thought specific answer to that question.
That is, people will give you radically different answers depending on what they believe. Resources that are full of just.… bad misconceptions, from one perspective, will be integral for understanding the world, from another.
For instance, the “study guide” referred to in another post lists the “List of Lethalities” by Yudkowsky as an important resource. Yet if you go to the only current review of it on LessWrong thinks that it is basically just confused, extremely badly, and that “deeply engaging with this post is, at best, a waste of time.” I agree with this assessment, but my agreement is worthless in the face of the vast agreements and disagreements swaying back and forth.
Your model here should be that you are asking a room for of Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Anabaptists, Huttites, and other various and sundry Christian groups, and asking them for the best introduction to interpreting the Bible. You’ll get lots of different responses! You might be able to pick out the leading thinkers for each group. But there will be no consensus about what the right introductory materials are, because there is no consensus in the group.
For myself, I think that before you think about AI risk you should read about how AI, as it is practiced, actually works. The 3blue1brown course on neural networks; the Michael Nielsen Deep Learning book online; tons of stuff from Karpathy; these are all excellent. But—this is my extremely biased opinion, and other people doubtless think it is bad.
There is no non-tradition-of-thought specific answer to that question.
That is, people will give you radically different answers depending on what they believe. Resources that are full of just.… bad misconceptions, from one perspective, will be integral for understanding the world, from another.
For instance, the “study guide” referred to in another post lists the “List of Lethalities” by Yudkowsky as an important resource. Yet if you go to the only current review of it on LessWrong thinks that it is basically just confused, extremely badly, and that “deeply engaging with this post is, at best, a waste of time.” I agree with this assessment, but my agreement is worthless in the face of the vast agreements and disagreements swaying back and forth.
Your model here should be that you are asking a room for of Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Anabaptists, Huttites, and other various and sundry Christian groups, and asking them for the best introduction to interpreting the Bible. You’ll get lots of different responses! You might be able to pick out the leading thinkers for each group. But there will be no consensus about what the right introductory materials are, because there is no consensus in the group.
For myself, I think that before you think about AI risk you should read about how AI, as it is practiced, actually works. The 3blue1brown course on neural networks; the Michael Nielsen Deep Learning book online; tons of stuff from Karpathy; these are all excellent. But—this is my extremely biased opinion, and other people doubtless think it is bad.