I know you’ve probably already read it but just in case you haven’t: this post is basically the premise of Age of Em.
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No. The trivial objection is that you need science to build AI and AI hardware. My real objection is that we don’t know if it’s going to take ten or a hundred years to build AI and I’d rather not put all our eggs in one risky basket.
Strong down voted for the clickbait. This isn’t the place for that kind of nonsense.
My rule of thumb is that if I’m in a conversation, I’ll ask for clarification instead of googling whatever term they just used. If they don’t know, or they have a question, then my first stop is google. It does take a certain skill level to know when it’s more efficient to ask someone, and knowing how to phrase questions is apparently difficult for people who didn’t grow up learning how to program.
I find that this means I get the social benefits of conversion, and when I actually care about the answer, I get it without wasting time.
Okay, I’m sold. I’ll read the whole book.
The idea of a rationalist who doesn’t understand that rationality/intelligence doesn’t imply values convergence astounds me.
I’ll be a vegan when our technology outgrows animal farms, or the personal cost to be a vegan falls below the tiny sliver of me that is vaguely dissatisfied with the status quo.
No, but I don’t eat very much meat.
creatine supplementation increased the average IQ of their sample of vegetarians by 12 points
Creatine didn’t improve my iq, but it did improve my scores on a digit memory test and more importantly, my mental stamina. I took it for a year, decided it wasn’t doing anything and quit. After about a week, I noticed that I was feeling tired after six or seven hours of programming instead of the eight or nine I had been doing. After taking creatine again my energy returned.
Anecdotal blah blah, but maybe you should try it? It doesn’t cost that much for a month’s supply, and you can find simple recall tests online and do one measurement before and one after.
Under what conditions is that itsy bitsy part above the water ever going to bring a customer from a “no” to a “yes”?
This has happened to me several times. For example, I use a specific markdown editor because it has a single killer feature (single pane editing) that none of the others do. Or a few days ago, I looked in a comparison of vector editing software because the one I was using didn’t have a specific feature (user friendly perspective transforms). I’ve picked apps over something as simple as a dark theme, or being able to store my notes as a tree instead of a flat list. Sometimes, a single feature can be exactly what someone wants.
That class and then an internship at a semiconductor factory thoroughly dispelled any lingering mysticism around computers.
Sort of, once you become the shadow, you have to “eat the light” as it were.
That’s pretty ironic, but it fits really well with my own thoughts on my inversion lately. Thank you for responding.
Shiloh thought he had eaten his shadow years ago, but in truth he had only scratched the surface and was ultimately still ruled by the same moral systems which we had been branded with as a child. We couldn’t see the control structures because we were immersed in them, because they were all we had ever known.
How were you able to gain the clarity to see what you were repressing? What did that feel like from the inside? I read the shadow sequence you linked, but it was heavy on poetic metaphors and light on experiential signposts.
Something along the lines of the CRT
Calibration questions
In the sequences, one of the beisutsukai rituals involves having to perform an on-the-fly bayesian update mentally (and then resist being peer pressured into a wrong answer)
Something to do with the planning fallacy
Confirmation bias—see the harry/hermione scene on the train
Something to do with overcomplicated plans/theories
“What grade will you get on this test?” → graded on the accuracy. sort of a calibration-plus-humility question
something to test whether they can notice the “quiet strain” that signals something’s wrong with a theory—maybe successively presented with evidence that counters a theory they’ve formed, and see how long it takes them to figure it out
curiosity, some small thread that’s out of place and they have to tug on instead of accepting the obvious solution. this is sort of like the CRT, but I’m thinking more like they’re given an explicit framework and there’s something tiny out of place, rather than there being a wrong s1 answer and a right s2 answer
“name a time where you believed yourself to be correct with absolute or near-absolute confidence, and describe the process of how you came to realize that you were wrong”
an authority states something wrong, but subtly wrong, see if they can notice the incorrectness and disagree. “Perhaps your conception of rationality is that it is rational to believe the words of the Great Teacher, and the Great Teacher says, “The sky is green,” and you look up at the sky and see blue. If you think, “It may look like the sky is blue, but rationality is to believe the words of the Great Teacher,” you lose a chance to discover your mistake.”
I agree with ChristianKi that avoiding goodharting will be a major challenge.
Edit: Please describe a future event or belief that you are 100% certain will happen or is correct.
Putting anything down that isn’t a rejection of the question is zero points. This is basic probability theory mixed with ability to think for yourself (the question is framed to imply that there are 100% certainties).
“Want to study together? ” was code for “want to split up the problems and copy off each other?”.
Just start noticing how greasy they are, and how the grease gets all over your fingers and coats the inside of the bag. Notice that you don’t want to eat things soaked in that much grease. Become repulsed by it, and then you won’t like them either.’”
I tried using this on soda. I spent five minutes visualizing the fizz and sweetness of soda mixed with replayed emotions of disgust and aversion. That was half a year ago and since then, I’ve had one can of ginger soda. It was okay, but not great, and I haven’t had any temptation since then. Notably, there is at least one crate of soda in my house at all times, since my family still drinks it. Prior to the experiment I drank one or two cans a day.
I tried to repeat it with cheese and it only lasted a week or so before I had an overwhelming craving for Mac and cheese. Cheese is an integral part of almost everything I eat, so it’s not that surprising, and on reflection I didn’t really want to quit cheese like I wanted to quit soda. Still, if you had told me I could stop wanting to eat cheese for a week with five minutes of visualization, I would have laughed at you.
I haven’t attempted a third trial since there’s no other single thing I want to cut out of my diet. I briefly considered doing it on all food before deciding that’s probably a good way to induce an eating disorder.
I’d be interesting in hearing whether anyone else has tried soares aversion technique, and what the outcome was.
I occasionally did homework swaps, and more often let friends copy off me. Such practices were rampant at my school, and I went to a small nerd high school. Your mistake was letting anyone except the person involved know about the trade.
It depends on the kind of bread. I usually don’t eat the ends of sandwich bread loaves, but the crusts of artisan bread are the best part.
Pfizer, both times.
Software: Typora. Need: Markdown editing. Other programs I’ve tried: Boostnote, StackEdit, VSCode, Marktext
Most markdown editors have plain text on one side and rendered text on the other. Typora has a single Wysiwyg panel. You can edit it as if it were plain markdown, for example you can bold something by putting stars around it. But you can also edit it as if it were wysiwyg, by doing ctrl I, or through a menu. More importantly, it doesn’t take up a lot of screen space and it’s much more aesthetically pleasing to not have a bunch of plain text. The only other single panel MD editor I’m aware of is marktext, which was significantly less polished last time I tried it about a year ago.
Typora also supports custom themes, tree style notes based on directories, various exports, a gui for making tables, and a bunch of other features. I consider it to be a second generation editor and will never go back to the first generation dual panel editors.