Capybasilisk

• Capybasilisk 29 Feb 2020 11:15 UTC

  3 points

  on: See­ing the Smoke

  Look on the bright side. If it turns out to be a dis­aster of Black Death pro­por­tions, the sur­vivors will be in a much stronger bar­gain­ing po­si­tion in a post-plague labour mar­ket.

• Capybasilisk 3 Jan 2020 11:14 UTC

  5 points

  on: Since figur­ing out hu­man val­ues is hard, what about, say, mon­key val­ues?

  Con­sider the trilo­bites. If there had been a trilo­bite-Friendly AI us­ing CEV, in­vin­cible ar­tic­u­lated shells would comb car­pets of wet muck with the high­est nu­tri­ent den­sity pos­si­ble within the laws of physics, across wor­lds or­bit­ing ev­ery star in the sky. If there had been a trilo­bite-en­g­ineered AI go­ing by 100% satis­fac­tion of all his­tor­i­cal trilo­bites, then trilo­bites would live long, healthy lives in a safe en­vi­ron­ment of ad­e­quate size, and the cam­brian ex­plo­sion (or some­thing like it) would have pro­ceeded with­out them.

  https://​​www.less­wrong.com/​​posts/​​cm­rtpfG7hGEL9Zh9f/​​the-scourge-of-per­verse-mind­ed­ness?com­men­tId=jo7q3GqYFzhPWhaRA

• Capybasilisk 17 Dec 2019 12:29 UTC

  9 points

  in reply to: Vaniver's comment on: Ap­proval Ex­trac­tion Ad­ver­tised as Production

  Alt­man’s re­spon­sive­ness test might be more use­ful if it mea­sured a founder’s re­ply time to an un­der­ling rather than to the guy hold­ing the purse strings/​ con­tact book.

• Capybasilisk 17 Dec 2019 12:17 UTC

  9 points

  in reply to: Wei_Dai's comment on: Ap­proval Ex­trac­tion Ad­ver­tised as Production

  An al­ter­na­tive hy­poth­e­sis is that Gra­ham has a bunch of tests/​met­rics that he uses to eval­u­ate peo­ple on, and those tests/​met­rics work much bet­ter when peo­ple do not try to op­ti­mize for do­ing well on them

  Isn’t it a bit odd that PG’s se­cret filters have the ex­act same out­put as those of staid, old, non-dis­rup­tive in­dus­tri­al­ists?

  I.e., strongly op­ti­miz­ing for pass­ing the tests of <White­bread Fund­ing Group> doesn’t seem to hurt you on YC’s met­rics.

• Capybasilisk 27 Jun 2019 12:16 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Dagon's comment on: Apoca­lypse, corrupted

  Re­lat­edly, is there any work be­ing done to come up with dis­tance mea­sures for agent states (in­clud­ing any of mo­men­tary ex­pe­riences, life-sums, or val­ues)? We talk a lot about marginal and ab­solute value of lives and make com­par­i­sons of ex­pe­riences (motes vs tor­ture) - what, if any­thing, has been done to start quan­tify­ing?

  It turns out that mea­sur­ing the dis­tance be­tween pos­si­ble wor­lds is...com­pli­cated.

• Capybasilisk 8 Jun 2019 15:00 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Richard_Kennaway's comment on: For the past, in some ways only, we are moral degenerates

  What about when the poor men come barg­ing through the rich man’s gate? I take it that too is fac­tored into the di­v­ine plan?

• Capybasilisk 28 Apr 2019 8:27 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Yuxi_Liu's comment on: Evolu­tion “failure mode”: chickens

  Thank you. Greatly ap­pre­ci­ated.

• Capybasilisk 27 Apr 2019 11:01 UTC

  1 point

  on: Why does cat­e­gory the­ory ex­ist?

  And what in­ter­est­ing in­sights into re­al­ity does it give us?

  Risky ques­tion to ask when deal­ing with pure mathematics

• Capybasilisk 27 Apr 2019 10:50 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: Dagon's comment on: Evolu­tion “failure mode”: chickens

  I don’t think peo­ple should use this site to pro­mote their per­sonal blogs. Sure, you can add a link to your blog at the bot­tom of your post, but this teaser ex­cerpt BS is re­ally ir­ri­tat­ing. I don’t click through just out of prin­ci­ple.

  If you have some­thing to say, post the whole thing here. If I like what you have to say, I might check out your other stuff, but I’m not go­ing to be forced into it.

Leukemia Has Won

• Capybasilisk 15 Feb 2019 6:58 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: habryka's comment on: Has The Func­tion To Sort Posts By Votes Stopped Work­ing?

  Thanks!

Has The Func­tion To Sort Posts By Votes Stopped Work­ing?