I really like learning new things!
Jacob G-W
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OpenAI: Our approach to AI safety
I’m actually working on this problem right now. There are a lot of those services, but they usually generate bad cards. I’m researching how to use AI to make good cards.
What I Think About When I Think About History
That’s really interesting! Did you ever use Anki or a spaced-repetition app? I wonder if the feeling happens because the brain gets rewarded for having a certain representation? Or did it just appear out of nowhere?
Why it’s necessary to shoot yourself in the foot
I think the idea actually works pretty well with superintelligence (with one big exception if you assume we all die). Lots of people don’t understand how/why superintelligence could kill us all. They naively think that creating a superintelligence would be a great idea. If we all died, then they would understand why alignment is a necessary complexity. The only problem with this is that we are all dead.
I represent history timelines logarithmically in my head. I talk about it in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j8WMRgKSCxqxxKMnj/what-i-think-about-when-i-think-about-history . I think the reason that number lines are logarithmic is because we are more familiar with events/numbers on one side of the line. I’m not sure that number lines are high-dimensional inside people’s heads. At least for me, it is one dimensional and maybe curved a little around my field of vision.
Separate the truth from your wishes
[Linkpost/Video] All The Times We Nearly Blew Up The World
Noticing confusion in physics
Wow, this is impressive intuition. Do you know what made you think of compressibility first? Or is it just intuition gained through hard work?
The Puritans would one-box: evidential decision theory in the 17th century
Yes, this is what I meant to say, sorry: typo.
Thanks, I did not know this!
I prefer putting everything into one big deck for a few reasons.
It forces you to do all the cards every day. When I had different decks, I would do the “main” deck every day, but then not do the other decks.
I have not read any research on this, but it seems like interspersing the cards could make the cards less likely to anticipate and force you to learn better.
It also just mixes up the monotony and makes it more fun.
There is a prediction market about this that asks the question Are open source models uniquely capable of teaching people how to make 1918 flu?: https://manifold.markets/JeffKaufman/are-open-source-models-uniquely-cap Thanks to @jefftk for creating it.
There’s a bunch. Here’s one: https://manifold.markets/NealShrestha58d3/sam-altman-will-return-to-openai-by
Same!
It should probably say 2023 review instead of 2022 at the top of lesswrong.
Hey, I’m new here and have really been enjoying reading lots of posts on here. My views have certainly updated on a variety of things!
I’ve been exploring using Anki flashcards to codify my thought processes when I have a-ha moments. After reading about cached thoughts, I started thinking that most of executing procedural knowledge is just having lots of cached thoughts about what to do next. I understand that this is not exactly the type of cached thought in the post, but I think it is interesting nonetheless. I have been making Anki cards like
Physics: what should you do if you get something as a function of x instead of a function of t to solve a problem//use conservation of energy insteadto speed up the process of learning new procedures (like solving physics problems).Have others done something similar?