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Estevéz. If I recall this correctly, Scott thought that potential or actual patients could be influenced in their therapy by knowing his public writings. (But I may mistemember that.)
Suppose Carlos Irwin Estévez worked as a therapist part-time, and he kept his identities separate such that his patients could not use his publicly known behavior as Sheen in order to update about whether they should believe his methods work. Should journalists writing about the famous Estevéz method of therapy keep his name out of the article to support him?
What is that reason you are referring to?
Thanks for giving a useful example.
For most people I guess it would be better to delete the phrase “I’m such a fool” from the evaluation, in order to avoid self-blame that becomes a self-image.
The “Snake cult of consciousness” theory sounds extremely fascinating. Qt the same time, it also sounds like the explanations why the pyramids were built by aliens. For laypeople, it is hard to distinguish between Important insights and clever nonsense.
Thank you very much. Why would liability for harms caused by AIs discourage the publishing of the weights of the most powerful models?
Okay, maybe I should rephrase my question: What is the typical AI safety policy they would enact if they could advise president, parliament and other real-world institutions?
https://laneless.substack.com/p/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics Isn’t this the substack of the original author?
By now there are several AI policy organizations. However, I am unsure what the typical AI safety policy is that any of them would enforce if they had unlimited power. Is there a summary of that?
The Underreaction to OpenAI
I don’t really understand why Substack became so popular, compared to eg WordPress. Is Substack writing easier to monetize?
So your timelines are the same as in 2018?
Thanks for the article recommendations.
Did you take such things into account when you made the decision, or decisions?
Almost all the blogs in the world seem to have switched to Substack, so I’m wondering if I’m the only one whose browser is very slow in loading and displaying comments from Substack blogs. Or is this a firefox problem?
I think the “stable totalitarianism” scenario is less science-fiction than the annihilation scenario, because you only need an extremely totalitarian state (something that already exists or existed) enhanced by AI. It is possible that this would come along with random torture. This would be possible with a misguided AI as well.
I don’t fully understand your implicatioks of why unpredictable things should not be frightening. In general, there is a difference between understanding and creating. The weather is unpredictable but we did not create it; where we did and do create it, we indeed seem to be too careless. For human brains, we at least know that preferences are mostly not too crazy, and if they are, capabilities are not superhuman. With respect to the immune system, understanding may be not very deep, but intervention is mostly limited by understanding, and where that is not true, we may be in trouble.
Do you think there could be an amount of suffering at the end of of a life that would outweigh 20 good years? (Including that this end could take very long.)
Thanks. What are the things that AI will, in 10, 20 or 30 years, have “trouble with”, and want are the “relevant skills” to train your kids in?
The post’s starting point is “how fast AI is advancing and all the uncertainty associated with that (unemployment, potential international conflict, x-risk, etc.)”. You don’t need concrete high-p-of-doom timelines for that, or even expect AGI at all. It is not necessary for “potential international conflict”, for example.
I said Estevéz because he is the less famous aspect of the person, not because I super-finetuned the analogy.
Updating the trust into your therapist seems to be a legitimate interest even if he is not famous for his psychiatric theory or practice. Suppose for example that an influential and controversial (e.g. White-supremacist) politician spent half his week being a psychiatrist and the other half doing politics, but somehow doing the former anymously. I think patients might legitimately want to know that their psychiatrist is this person. This might even be true if the psychiatrist is only locally active, like the head of a KKK chapter. And journalists might then find it inappropriate to treat the two identities as completely separate.
I assume there are reasons for publishing the name and reasons against. It is not clear that being a psychiatrist is always an argument against.
Part of the reason is, possibly, that patients often cannot directly judge the quality of therapy. Therapy is a credence good and therapists may influence you in ways that are independent of your depression or anorexia. So having more information about your psychiatrist may be helpful. At the same time, psychiatrists try to keep their private life out of the therapy, for very good reasons. It is not completely obvious to me where journalists should draw the line.