“Entity” is doing some quiet heavy lifting here; this is not a principled Machine Learning term—it is a semiotic choice that makes virtue ethics feel natural.
Pedro Freire
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Many stakeholders are investing in the best ‘horse’ to cover the technological innovation demand, which happens to be AI according to many. What I am saying is that maybe a more realistic solution is to offer a better and safer technological alternative to invest in.
I think “Pivoting AI” makes more sense than “Pausing AI” or “Regulating AI”. As far as I understand it, the demand for technological innovation cannot be “stopped” in any meaningful sense of the word.
I don’t know why this sort of comment is downvoted. I imagine I am expected to explain why I find it fascinating?
Here is a metaphor; I can’t tell if this is insightful to anyone else: if one is worried about defeating Orcs and Ogres, the objective is not to bet on which of them is more dangerous; the objective is to simultaneously beat Orcs and Ogres.
Creative actions often lead to out-of-distribution states, for better or worse.
Many of my mistakes in life involved either doing something creative while being unprepared to handle negative surprises or limitations in my imagination that prevented me from figuring out better outcomes.
Many of my successes in life involved either repeatedly executing something that reliably works or pursuing a creative direction and unlocking new states beyond my initial imagination of what was possible.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt”Citizenship in a Republic,”Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Fascinating
I posted this here because I had posted it elsewhere and I personally thought it to be funny and interesting. On a deeper level, one of my autistic obssessions lately has been the Hellenistic Intellectual Traditions. I feel like Ancient Greece was an unusually flourishing context for a plurality and originality of original truth seeking, and that many later authors who think Ancient Greeks to be antiquated have failed to contextualize and interpret correctly these older texts. In particular, the Ancient Greeks were fascinated by language and by words, and many of the words they used do not have a direct translation outside of that intellectual context.
Furthermore, I remember being introduced in a philosophy class at École Polytechnique many years ago to the concept of History of Ideas, how one of the philosophical pursuits is to trace and connect different versions of similar ideas through time. There is something interesting about thinking of ELK in the lenses of different intellectual traditions over time that were also investigating similar concepts. I do think exploring how the Ancient Greeks might have approached this problem to be a potential avenue of ideas for those interested in making progress on ELK.
(I am not implying that existing interactions are not constructivist. I mostly have a positive vision of ways of making more of the dialogues here more productive. This is not a super well formulated claim yet, so hold it with grace please.)
(I will elaborate more what I mean by this and why I think this is relevant once I have the capacity.)
(My Facebook and Instagram accounts have been suspended without explanation. Hopefully they will be restored soon. If anyone reading this wants to reach me in the meantime, please use other means.)
Sweet
I would like to see more constructivist interactions happening here
Five years later, I’m still recommending this post to people :) This is the best introductory article on the topic.
I have enough beliefs that would earn negative karma if earnestly expressed in a normal LessWrong conversation to make this website not worth participating in for me.
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Why calling it Eliciting Latent Knowledge when ἀληθεουργία was right there?
Chinese Medicine might be an interesting holistic practice to do a rationalist deep dive on, since it is clinically predictive and systematic. It is estimated that 10,000,000,000+ people have been treated with it over the past 5,000 years. (This feels like a huge number, and strong evidence that there is something important there.)