I’m often very up for interviewing people (as I’ve done here and here) -- if I have some genuine interest in the topic, and if it seems like lesswrong readers would like to see the interview happen. So if people are looking for someone-to-help-you-get-your-thoughts-out, I might be down. (See also the interview request form.)
For interviewing folks, I’m interested in more stuff than I can list. I’ll just check what others are into being interviewed about and if there’s a match.
For personally dialogueing, topics I might want to do (writing these out, quickly and roughly, rather than not at all!)
metaphors and isomorphisms between lean manufacturing <> functional programming <> maneuver warfare, as different operational philosophies in different domains that still seem to be “climbing the same mountain from different directions”
state space metaphors applied to operations. i have some thoughts here, for thinking about how effective teams and organisations function, drawing upon a bunch of concepts and abstractions that I’ve mostly found around writing by wentworth and some agent foundations stuff… I can’t summarise it succinctly, but if someone is curious upon hearing this sentence, we could chat
strategically, what are technologies such that 1) in our timeline they will appear late (or toolate) on the automation tree, 2) they will be blocking for accomplishing certain things, and 3) there’s tractable work now for causing them to happen sooner? For example: will software and science automation progress to a point where we will be able to solve a hard problem like uploading, in a way that then leaves us blocked on something like “having 1000 super-microscopes”? And if so, should someone just go try to build those microscopes now? Are there are other examples like this?
I like flying and would dialogue about it :)
enumerative safety sounds kind of bonkers… but what if it isn’t? And beyond that, what kind of other ambitious, automated, alignment experiments would it be good if someone tried?
Cyborg interfaces. What are natural and/or powerful ways of exploring latent space? I’ve been thinking about sort of mindlessly taking some interfaces over which I have some command—a guitar, a piano, a stick-and-rudder—and hooking them up something allowing me to “play latent space” or “cruise through latent space”. What other metaphors are there here? What other interfaces might be cool to play around with?
I’m potentially up for another dialogue.
I’m often very up for interviewing people (as I’ve done here and here) -- if I have some genuine interest in the topic, and if it seems like lesswrong readers would like to see the interview happen. So if people are looking for someone-to-help-you-get-your-thoughts-out, I might be down. (See also the interview request form.)
For interviewing folks, I’m interested in more stuff than I can list. I’ll just check what others are into being interviewed about and if there’s a match.
For personally dialogueing, topics I might want to do (writing these out, quickly and roughly, rather than not at all!)
metaphors and isomorphisms between lean manufacturing <> functional programming <> maneuver warfare, as different operational philosophies in different domains that still seem to be “climbing the same mountain from different directions”
state space metaphors applied to operations. i have some thoughts here, for thinking about how effective teams and organisations function, drawing upon a bunch of concepts and abstractions that I’ve mostly found around writing by wentworth and some agent foundations stuff… I can’t summarise it succinctly, but if someone is curious upon hearing this sentence, we could chat
strategically, what are technologies such that 1) in our timeline they will appear late (or too late) on the automation tree, 2) they will be blocking for accomplishing certain things, and 3) there’s tractable work now for causing them to happen sooner? For example: will software and science automation progress to a point where we will be able to solve a hard problem like uploading, in a way that then leaves us blocked on something like “having 1000 super-microscopes”? And if so, should someone just go try to build those microscopes now? Are there are other examples like this?
I like flying and would dialogue about it :)
enumerative safety sounds kind of bonkers… but what if it isn’t? And beyond that, what kind of other ambitious, automated, alignment experiments would it be good if someone tried?
Cyborg interfaces. What are natural and/or powerful ways of exploring latent space? I’ve been thinking about sort of mindlessly taking some interfaces over which I have some command—a guitar, a piano, a stick-and-rudder—and hooking them up something allowing me to “play latent space” or “cruise through latent space”. What other metaphors are there here? What other interfaces might be cool to play around with?
Lots of these sound interesting, even though I’m not sure how much I can add to the discussion. Perhaps...?