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New Safety & security Analysis 1h ago
alignment vs safety engineering argument

We Don't Need Alignment. We Need Real Safety Engineering. - Doll's AI Takes

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SE Gyges Doll

“dolls-ai-takes.pckt.blog/we-dont-need...”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Doll: @brookie.blog pckt is nice actually
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): We can't rely upon luck, we need to be safe by design.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): Strict liability for any damage caused by bots would go a long way
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Established Safety & security Analysis 5d ago
alien message LessWrong alignment essay

That Alien Message — LessWrong

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SE Gyges rev. howard arson

“see this one, with his defensive footnote up top: www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ARaTp... check this one: www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKN... is there anything in this corpus that indicates a belief that natural language and significant progress on values comes WEL…”

“basically you just need the Very Basic information theory 101: no Markov process (approximately everything is a Markov process) can add mutual information with its input through local operations. rationalists do not think that this is exactly false, just tr…”

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Grace: Which is an annoying thing to do, but that’s also another critique
Grace: You can argue that rationalist‘s don‘t *practice* empiricism, but that’s a different critique. It’s hard to imagine a clearer endorsement than putting it as one of your “12 Virtues of Rationality”
Grace: This just isn’t true at all: “The sixth virtue is empiricism. The roots of knowledge are in observation and its fruit is prediction. What tree grows without roots?”
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Established AI field signal Analysis 5d ago
counting arguments AI essay

Counting Arguments and AI

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SE Gyges

“other assumptions that were or should have been at least somewhat cruxy include speed of takeoff and "the size of mindspace" which is literally a repurposed creationist counting argument i cannot make clear enough how much i do not respect this argument: ww…”

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Established Safety & security Analysis 5d ago
hidden complexity AI wishes essay

The Hidden Complexity of Wishes — LessWrong

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SE Gyges

“see this one, with his defensive footnote up top: www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ARaTp... check this one: www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKN... is there anything in this corpus that indicates a belief that natural language and significant progress on values comes WEL…”

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3 experts · 21 posts · 17h ago
SE Gyges Colin tweety fish
SE Gyges: "superintelligence" is such a weird fucking shibboleth but it does pretty clearly indicat ideas are downstream of the rationalists on this one i am generically pretty pro regulation but this specif…
SE Gyges: sorry, "artificial superintelligence". influence runs very directly from the rats to Bernie to this. the trump version drops the "artificial" for whatever absurd reason
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3 experts · 8 posts · 23h ago
SE Gyges Colin Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
SE Gyges: ai is a science in the way chemistry was a science in the year 1900 90% of all risk predictions are the equivalent of an alchemist telling you that you're going to create an evil homunculus because…
SE Gyges: we are in the funny position where 1) ai, the science, is in the position of chemistry in 1900, and 2) our alchemists and phlogiston theorists etc etc are still around these are two separate proble…
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