ioannes_shade

• ioannes_shade 2 Jun 2019 15:07 UTC

  6 points

  on: On alien science

  Firstly, on a his­tor­i­cal ba­sis, many of the great­est sci­en­tists were clearly aiming for ex­pla­na­tion not pre­dic­tion.

  
  

  Could you ex­pand a bit more on how you view ex­pla­na­tion as dis­tinct from pre­dic­tion?

  (As I think about the con­cepts, I’m find­ing it tricky to draw a crisp dis­tinc­tion be­tween the two.)

• ioannes_shade 28 May 2019 18:10 UTC

  9 points

  on: Ev­i­dence for Con­nec­tion Theory

  Here’s an archived ver­sion of the doc.

• ioannes_shade 19 May 2019 15:58 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: habryka's comment on: Habryka’s Short­form Feed

  See Sin­clair: “It is difficult to get a man to un­der­stand some­thing, when his salary de­pends upon his not un­der­stand­ing it!”

Cash prizes for the best ar­gu­ments against psychedelics be­ing an EA cause area

• ioannes_shade 7 May 2019 21:10 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: Said Achmiz's comment on: Liter­a­ture Re­view: Distributed Teams

  cf. https://​​en.wikipe­dia.org/​​wiki/​​Knuth_re­ward_check

• ioannes_shade 17 Apr 2019 17:57 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: habryka's comment on: Open Prob­lems in Archipelago

  lol

Com­plex value & situ­a­tional awareness

• ioannes_shade 13 Apr 2019 20:18 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: romeostevensit's comment on: The Hard Work of Trans­la­tion (Bud­dhism)

  I agree with your ba­sic point here, though have some nits to pick about your char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of zen :-)

• ioannes_shade 6 Apr 2019 20:07 UTC

  1 point

  on: If a “Kick­starter for Inad­e­quate Equlibria” was built, do you have a con­crete in­ad­e­quate equil­ibrium to fix?

  Seems some­what re­lated: Liberal Rad­i­cal­ism: A Flex­ible De­sign For Philan­thropic Match­ing Funds

  Espe­cially in­ter­est­ing be­cause the au­thors are rich enough & cred­ible enough to stand up a big pro­ject here, if they de­cide to.

• ioannes_shade 1 Apr 2019 15:47 UTC

  11 points

  in reply to: ioannes_shade's comment on: The Case for The EA Hotel

  Also Vipul’s dona­tion re­port is in­ter­est­ing + helpful.

• ioannes_shade 31 Mar 2019 16:16 UTC

  7 points

  on: The Case for The EA Hotel

  Note there’s also some good dis­cus­sion about this post over on the EA Fo­rum.

• ioannes_shade 30 Mar 2019 17:03 UTC

  11 points

  on: List of Q&A As­sump­tions and Uncer­tain­ties [LW2.0 in­ter­nal doc­u­ment]

  Cu­ri­ous how LessWrong sees its Q&A func­tion slot­ting in amongst Quora, Stack Ex­change, Twit­ter, etc.

  (There are a lot of ques­tion-an­swer­ing plat­forms cur­rently ex­tant; I’m not clear on the busi­ness case for an­other one.)

Micro­cos­mo­graphia excerpt

• ioannes_shade 24 Feb 2019 15:50 UTC

  5 points

  on: “Other peo­ple are wrong” vs “I am right”

  This is awe­some.

  Re­minds me of Ben Kuhn’s re­cent ques­tion on the EA Fo­rum – Has your EA wor­ld­view changed over time?

• ioannes_shade 23 Feb 2019 18:59 UTC

  3 points

  in reply to: Raemon's comment on: Apho­risms for meditation

  Makes sense, thanks for lay­ing out some of your rea­son­ing!

  I think there’s a lot of in­fer­en­tial dis­tance be­tween Zen prac­tices & the me­dian LessWrong post. Bridg­ing that dis­tance would be a big pro­ject. Maybe one day I’ll take a stab at it – in the mean­time it makes sense for stuff like this to live in the per­sonal blog sec­tion.

[Link] OpenAI on why we need so­cial scientists

Apho­risms for meditation

• ioannes_shade 16 Feb 2019 1:57 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: RobinHanson's comment on: Some dis­junc­tive rea­sons for ur­gency on AI risk

  Re­lated, on the EA Fo­rum. (I am the post’s au­thor.)

• ioannes_shade 15 Feb 2019 23:05 UTC

  2 points

  on: Some dis­junc­tive rea­sons for ur­gency on AI risk

  … even if my prop­erty rights are tech­ni­cally se­cure, I don’t know how I would se­cure my mind.

  Train­ing up one’s con­cen­tra­tion & pre­sent-mo­ment aware­ness are prob­a­bly helpful for this.

• ioannes_shade 15 Feb 2019 17:08 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: jbash's comment on: Who owns OpenAI’s new lan­guage model?

  Haven’t read it yet, but here’s an aca­demic re­view of “Fed­eral Pa­tent Tak­ings,” which seems rele­vant.