Theoretical Computer Science Msc student at the University of [Redacted] in the United Kingdom.
I’m an aspiring alignment theorist; my research vibes are descriptive formal theories of intelligent systems (and their safety properties) with a bias towards constructive theories.
I think it’s important that our theories of intelligent systems remain rooted in the characteristics of real world intelligent systems; we cannot develop adequate theory from the null string as input.
DragonGod
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Thanks for the repply. :) I’m glad to see your hypotheses is actually based on evidence—anecdotal evidence is better than nothing—and not pulled out of your ass or based on stereotypes, and dumb misconceptions. Mensa seems to get a lot of backlash (I’m not a member and there’s no presence in my country), but Mensa does sound like an organisation I’d (want to) join if they had a presence in Nigeria, plus I have a friend who’s a member.
Thanks for the opinion; it is much appreciated. I cannot give an informed opinion on this, as I’m not a member of MENSA. Since you see a problem, why not work towards fixing it?
I would have helped you if I were in your country. It seems like the MENSA in your country is a waste of time, and hardly worth saving. Create a new organisation if you must. Though saving your local MENSA may be the decision with the higher payoff (imagine the possibilities if you showed them the way).
I have been a part of this community for over a couple of months now. I follow RAZ with more diligence than I ever did my Bible. I have 0 karma, and as such I cannot post. There are several posts I made on Reddit that I would want to post here to get feedback, but I can’t as I have no Karma. FIxing that karma by trying to comment everywhere may work, or it may not. I am more active on my threads and rarely so on others, so I may not have much to say in the way of constructive comments. This is a shameless plea for karma so that I can engage and be a part of the community. Please help me.
I already have the PDFs(which I distribute wantonly). I am not sure whether it is more advisable to direct people to the site as opposed to giving them the PDFs. As it is, I usually download Lesswrong pages for offline reading, while I don’t want to self-anchor I’m not sure the site is better than the PDF.
Well, I’ll shamelessly self promote: https://dragongod2718.tumblr.com
Well, I have the PDF on both phone, laptop and in my Google Drive. But as I explained already, I usually read offline for posts of substantial length. Go ahead with the project though. I guess I’ll add a link to my blog and social media.
Rationality as A Value Decider
A Comment on Expected Utility Theory
Birth of a Stereotype
The Simple World Hypothesis
I’ve bookmarked the link, and I’ll read it at my leisure. I may update the article to include the information from the link at that point in time.
Amen.
I do not want theories for how eyesight and IQ may be correlated—I want statistics showing bad eyesight and IQ are significantly positively correlated. The theories can come after. Do we have statistics that show that?
The article was admittedly premature.
Argument From Infinity
A kind of causation. X implies Y. X may be strong evidence for Y, but Y may be extremely weak evidence for X, so the two relations are not really symmetric.
The principles of Aristotelian logic.
I don’t understand how Axiom 2 implies uncomputability; please explain.
The other universes have their own laws, which work together with $L_{\alpha}$ to create them. Axiom 2 just implies there are an infinite number of universes, and every universe exists. Axiom 2 does not imply that $L_{\alpha}$ contains all possible laws.
Curious why you posit that