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Knock­ing Down My AI Op­ti­mist Strawman

tailcalledFeb 8, 2025, 10:52 AM
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My Men­tal Model of AI Op­ti­mist Opinions

tailcalledJan 29, 2025, 6:44 PM
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Evolu­tion’s se­lec­tion tar­get de­pends on your weighting

tailcalledNov 19, 2024, 6:24 PM
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Em­pa­thy/​Sys­tem­iz­ing Quo­tient is a poor/​bi­ased model for the autism/​sex link

tailcalledNov 4, 2024, 9:11 PM
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Bi­nary en­cod­ing as a sim­ple ex­plicit con­struc­tion for superposition

tailcalledOct 12, 2024, 9:18 PM
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Ra­tion­al­ist Gnosticism

tailcalledOct 10, 2024, 9:06 AM
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RLHF is the worst pos­si­ble thing done when fac­ing the al­ign­ment problem

tailcalledSep 19, 2024, 6:56 PM
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[Question] Does life ac­tu­ally lo­cally *in­crease* en­tropy?

tailcalledSep 16, 2024, 8:30 PM
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Why I’m bear­ish on mechanis­tic in­ter­pretabil­ity: the shards are not in the network

tailcalledSep 13, 2024, 5:09 PM
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In defense of tech­nolog­i­cal un­em­ploy­ment as the main AI concern

tailcalledAug 27, 2024, 5:58 PM
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The causal back­bone conjecture

tailcalledAug 17, 2024, 6:50 PM
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Ra­tion­al­ists are miss­ing a core piece for agent-like struc­ture (en­ergy vs in­for­ma­tion over­load)

tailcalledAug 17, 2024, 9:57 AM
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[LDSL#6] When is quan­tifi­ca­tion needed, and when is it hard?

tailcalledAug 13, 2024, 8:39 PM
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[LDSL#5] Com­par­i­son and mag­ni­tude/​diminishment

tailcalledAug 12, 2024, 6:47 PM
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[LDSL#4] Root cause anal­y­sis ver­sus effect size estimation

tailcalledAug 11, 2024, 4:12 PM
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[LDSL#3] In­for­ma­tion-ori­en­ta­tion is in ten­sion with mag­ni­tude-orientation

tailcalledAug 10, 2024, 9:58 PM
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[LDSL#2] La­tent vari­able mod­els, net­work mod­els, and lin­ear diffu­sion of sparse lognormals

tailcalledAug 9, 2024, 7:57 PM
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[LDSL#1] Perfor­mance op­ti­miza­tion as a metaphor for life

tailcalledAug 8, 2024, 4:16 PM
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[LDSL#0] Some episte­molog­i­cal conundrums

tailcalledAug 7, 2024, 7:52 PM
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Yann LeCun: We only de­sign ma­chines that min­i­mize costs [there­fore they are safe]

tailcalledJun 15, 2024, 5:25 PM
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