Noosphere89

Karma: 1,820

[Question] How easy/fast is it for a AGI to hack computers/a human brain?

Noosphere8921 Jun 2022 0:34 UTC

0 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

How humanity would respond to slow takeoff, with takeaways from the entire COVID-19 pandemic

Noosphere896 Jul 2022 17:52 UTC

4 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Why AGI Timeline Research/Discourse Might Be Overrated

Noosphere8920 Jul 2022 20:26 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Which singularity schools plus the no singularity school was right?

Noosphere8923 Jul 2022 15:16 UTC

9 points

26 comments9 min readLW link

Complexity No Bar to AI (Or, why Computational Complexity matters less than you think for real life problems)

Noosphere897 Aug 2022 19:55 UTC

17 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever? From Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell

Noosphere8919 Aug 2022 19:32 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

[Question] In a lack of data, how should you weigh credences in theoretical physics’s Theories of Everything, or TOEs?

Noosphere897 Sep 2022 18:25 UTC

7 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is the game design/art maxim more generalizable to criticism/praise itself?

Noosphere8922 Sep 2022 13:19 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Does biology reliably find the global maximum, or at least get close?

Noosphere8910 Oct 2022 20:55 UTC

24 points

71 comments1 min readLW link

When should you defer to expertise? A useful heuristic (Crosspost from EA forum)

Noosphere8913 Oct 2022 14:14 UTC

9 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] How easy is it to supervise processes vs outcomes?

Noosphere8918 Oct 2022 17:48 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Logical Decision Theories: Our final failsafe?

Noosphere8925 Oct 2022 12:51 UTC

−7 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] Is the Orthogonality Thesis true for humans?

Noosphere8927 Oct 2022 14:41 UTC

12 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

A first success story for Outer Alignment: InstructGPT

Noosphere898 Nov 2022 22:52 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

I’ve updated towards AI boxing being surprisingly easy

Noosphere8925 Dec 2022 15:40 UTC

8 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How seriously should we take the hypothesis that LW is just wrong on how AI will impact the 21st century?

Noosphere8916 Feb 2023 15:25 UTC

56 points

66 comments1 min readLW link

Some thoughts on the cults LW had

Noosphere8926 Feb 2023 15:46 UTC

−5 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

A case for capabilities work on AI as net positive

Noosphere8927 Feb 2023 21:12 UTC

10 points

37 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Best arguments against the outside view that AGI won’t be a huge deal, thus we survive.

Noosphere8927 Mar 2023 20:49 UTC

4 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Can we get around Godel’s Incompleteness theorems and Turing undecidable problems via infinite computers?

Noosphere8917 Apr 2023 15:14 UTC

−11 points

12 comments1 min readLW link