have there been any discontinuities in the domain of computer security?
google 40 percent capabilities researchers
is the biggest snail bigger than the smallest rabbit?
incomparability only ever appears in stated, never in revealed preferences
the crossing of a trit and a bit is a brit
I have updated your probability distribution. Pray I don’t update it any further.
what’s the equivalent to the flicker fusion threshold for hearing/tasting/smelling?
“danger lives at the tip of my hair” she pouted and downed the day-after pill with two finger widths of tequila
Functional Decision Theory has a WP page
von Neumann and Morgenstern is a joy to read :-D
maybe for good reason but man I dislike the aesthetic and will continue to only do technical stuff
ugh I hate it I am allied with people who propose the clipper chip but for GPUs
wait WHY is “book” “libro” in esperanto, but “library” is not “libraro” but “biblioteko”? Huh???
haro in Esperanto means “single hair”. “hararo“ maeans “collection of many hairs“. “harari” is the corresponding verb.
Stop Goodharting yourself! Stop Goodharting yourself!
sky vs. sky
the male urge to become world expert at extremely specific things
“neniel” could also be a biblical angel
just loving this little guy: (·,·). it’s like he’s looking through a crack: ‘come on, you’ll understand the function definition’
starstardotbib
What is the Bayesian version of calibration?
in practice probably ~all systems with qualia are valenced systems, since valence is the primary axis along which qualia can vary
What is the information bottleneck of epigenetics?
pickens
chigs
Utility is linear in probability but nothing else.
“…and we can probably plan for middle of March thi…ah, hello! Mister Yudkowsky! I hope you found—” “Rename your company to ClosedAI.” “Uh…what?” “Rename your company to ClosedAI. Stop your biggest training runs. Pivot to mechanistic interpretability. Shut it all down.” “………Selfie?”
i mean how many bits can you even hide in a human-understandable theorem?
orthogonality of substrate and structure in general
meditation has the effect of “concetptual regularization” for me: less discrete thinking, and more conservative concept boundaries
evolution lets animals age because otherwise they fall into procrastination type paradox situations
how many metaculus questions resolved on technicalities?
well, sometimes humans provide the discontinuities (via large jumps in training run sizes)
ne konfuzu “ilo” kaj “ulo”—uloj ne ŝatas ĝin.
I’ve never gotten much out of a book review & don’t understand why people read or write them.
shifting from direct to indirect realism is important for value extrapolation
but can you trick the plan evaluation evaluation procedure?
at higher levels of intelligence, maintaining coherence becomes more difficult since your action space widens and having high coherence might be NP-hard. so the better metric is coherence divided by size of action space
can you money-pump the agents simulated by large-language models?
give standard vNM coherence violating scenarios to smarter language models
CDTBNGS (Causal Decision Theory, but no Galaxy-Brained Shit)
half-uplifted octopus escapes and starts a life of crime: The Multi-Armed Bandit
“galaxybrained” is an interesting category. is it just pointing at the conjunction fallacy, or something more subtle?
hey LLM how does on do long game
guy who would rather read than meditate
optimize by satisficing, satisfice by optimizing
a problem with minmaxing is that the crisper your model of the world becomes, the more conservative you become—but intuitively it should be the other way around!
there’s some IOIs it’s a crime not to react to
in emily in paris Y is mad because X slept with Ys boyfriend. and what does my brain say? ‘why don’t X and Ys boyfriend pay her the cheerful price to forget the thing?’ damn economists