While I’m here I guess I may as well post that i’ve been using your rational breaks idea for about two weeks now and it’s worked very well for me. It’s not very polished but I made this little website to help track my time in work mode or break mode: https://chadnauseam.com/productivity/rational-breaks . Don’t refresh the page because it doesn’t persist your state haha. Also it starts you out in break mode with a few seconds of example time in each category but I’ll change that soon
Chad Nauseam
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CICO is a weird reference class
What’s the problem with oracle AIs? It seems like if you had a safe oracle AI that gave human-aligned answers to questions, you could then ask “how do I make an aligned AGI?” and just do whatever it says. So it seems like the problem of “how to make an aligned agentic AGI” is no harder than “how to make an aligned orcale AI”, which I understand to still be extremely hard, but surely it’s easier than making an aligned agentic AGI from scratch?
I’m reading Being you and they make a similar point to the one you make about H20 and XYZ. It’s part of their argument against p-zombies: