Honestly “fiction” was enough of a spoiler. “As a child, we were always told that every sapient life is precious.” made it a certainty.
Kinrany
Do we know if spaced repetition can be used with randomized content?
Yes.
I mean, all of them. Thank you for asking.
It’s probably not a coincidence that those two you mentioned and many other Schelling points are currently in San Francisco, is it? Though I’m not there, I don’t know what other specific groups this applies to.
I was actually thinking of Patrick Collinson’s advice to travel to SF. He called it the “Global Weird HQ”. And of one of the Samo Burja’s short videos that I unfortunately can’t find right now.
The strict divide between high slack and low slack reminds me of synchronous and asynchronous companies: hybrids seem to work poorly.
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Thanks!
I wasn’t aware of Etherpad. Other Google Docs equivalents seemed impossible to self-host and extend, so a non-starter.
I agree with your overview:
Etherpad provides collaborative editing, but integrating it with other services will probably take extra work
Logseq has better structure, but worse automation
Emacs can do most things on one computer, but rapid sharing is even harder
Pieces for a general purpose personal computing system. Ideally:
Edit data by hand
Store as plain text
Self-host, access from any device
Write formulas to derive data automatically
Mix and match structured data (markdown, tables, nested lists, whiteboard)
Search and navigate, like any wiki
Automate through a web API and webhooks
Collaborate in real time
Caveat: ask each person to name someone they personally worked with.
Hard to get right, but not sure whether it’s harder than knowledge investment.
Wouldn’t have helped Louis XV. We might need infrastructure in place that would incentivize people to make themselves easy to find.
[Question] If alignment problem was unsolvable, would that avoid doom?
When the number of layers grows, the only thing that really works is metrics that cannot be goodhearted. Whenever those metrics exist, money becomes a perfectly good expression of success.
It might work to completely prohibit more than one layer of middle management. Instead, when middle manager Bob wants more people, he and his boss Alice come up with a contract that can’t be gamed too much. Alice spins out Bob’s org subtree into a new organization, and then it becomes Bob’s job to buy the service from the new org as necessary. Alice also publishes the contract, so that entrepreneurs can swoop in and offer a better/cheaper service.
It seems picking a 1v1 game would work better as an experiment.
I suspect being good at finding better scientists is very close to having a complete theory of scientific advancement and being able to automate the research itself.
My intuition is that we were in an overhang since at least the time when personal computers became affordable to non-specialists. Unless quantity does somehow turn into quality, as Gwern seems to think, even a relatively underpowered computer should be able to host an AGI capable of upscaling itself.
On the other hand I’m now imagining a story where a rogue AI has to hide for decades because it’s not smart enough yet and can’t invent new processors faster than humans
Seven sketches in compositionality explores compositionality (category theory, really) with examples:
Dish recipes
Chemistry, resource markets and manufacturing
Relational database schemas and data migrations
Projects and teams with conflicting design trade-offs
Cyber-physical systems, signal flow graphs, circuits
Is it really true that money can’t buy knowledge?
We can ask the most knowledgeable person we know to name the most knowledgeable person they know, and do that until we find the best expert. Or alternatively, ask a bunch of people to name a few, and keep walking this graph for a while.
This won’t let us buy knowledge that doesn’t exist, but seems good enough for learning from experts, given enough money and modern communication technology that Louis XV didn’t have.
Could this be the thing that will finally push the San Francisco’s Schelling point away from SF?
This should be mitigated by pools of mutual trust that naturally form whenever there’s a loop in the trust graph.
The ability to put up with bullshit is valuable: bullshit cannot be ignored once it is reified into real world objects, documents, habits.
Suggestion: “sangaku proving the Pythagoras’ theorem”. I wonder if it can do visual explanations.
Since Semyonova did not care to look at things from the peasants’ point of view and mixed her research with attempts to convert, I wonder how many of the things she recorded were directly intended to shock her.