M. Y. Zuo(Michael Y. Zuo)

Avoid­ing Nega­tive Ex­ter­nal­ities—a the­ory with spe­cific ex­am­ples—Part 1

[Question] What’s the like­li­hood of only sub ex­po­nen­tial growth for AGI?

[Question] What are the mu­tual benefits of AGI-hu­man col­lab­o­ra­tion that would oth­er­wise be un­ob­tain­able?

[Question] How could a friendly AI deal with hu­mans try­ing to sab­o­tage it? (like how pre­sent day in­ter­net trolls in­tro­duce such prob­lems)

[Question] Every­one’s mired in the deep­est con­fu­sion, some of the time?

The Defeat of Rea­son?

An ar­gu­ment against ex­ces­sive con­sump­tion of coffee from 1674

Some re­flec­tions on the LW com­mu­nity af­ter sev­eral months of ac­tive engagement

Let­ter from lead­ing Soviet Aca­demi­ci­ans to party and gov­ern­ment lead­ers of the Soviet Union re­gard­ing signs of de­cline and struc­tural prob­lems of the eco­nomic-poli­ti­cal sys­tem (1970)

[Question] How does one rec­og­nize in­for­ma­tion and differ­en­ti­ate it from noise?

Do meta-memes and meta-an­timemes ex­ist? e.g. ‘The map is not the ter­ri­tory’ is also a map

Self-defeat­ing con­spir­acy the­o­rists and their theories

Ve­hi­cle Pla­toon­ing—a real world ex­am­i­na­tion of the difficul­ties in coordination

Bounded dis­trust or Bounded trust?

Peter Thiel’s speech at Oxford De­bat­ing Union on tech­nolog­i­cal stag­na­tion, Nu­clear weapons, COVID, En­vi­ron­ment, Align­ment, ‘anti-anti anti-anti-clas­si­cal liber­al­ism’, Bostrom, LW, etc.

Google an­nounces ‘Bard’ pow­ered by LaMDA

[Question] Is ChatGPT (or other LLMs) more ‘sen­tient’/​’con­scious/​etc. then a baby with­out a brain?

Anal­y­sis of GPT-4 com­pe­tence in as­sess­ing com­plex le­gal lan­guage: Ex­am­ple of Bill C-11 of the Cana­dian Par­li­a­ment. - Part 1

[Question] Prac­ti­cal ways to ac­tu­al­ize our be­liefs into con­crete bets over a longer time hori­zon?

Cred­ible, costly, pseudonymity