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Mar 12

Your Rebuttal Goes Here

~ just post it in the comments! ~ in response to the essay “AGI soon, but Narrow Works Better” Please note! The argument that “RETRO and other models use memory, which could be used for following a multi-step plan” is erroneous; for RETRO or other memory-equipped networks to utilize their memory on the *task* of “remember which step of the Destroy-All-Humans-Plan that you’re on, now” they would have needed to *re-assign* the *meaning* of those memory locations, which would require plasticity of the weights. Yet, the original constraint was that weights be frozen; hence, no memory’s *meaning* can be re-assigned to “keep track of which step they’re on”… nor could frozen weights generate a new macro-task such as “Destroy all humans” unless that macro-level task was included in its training data.

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Feb 25

Bayes is Out-Dated, and You’re Doing it Wrong

~ a community of Bayes-enthusiasts fumble statistical inference ~ TL;DR — Industry uses Dirichlet Process and SAS, NOT Bayes. Bayes is persistently *wrong* and lacks a great deal of important information. Supposed ‘rationalists’ cling to Bayes as the Ultimate Truth, without knowing enough Mathematics to know they’re wrong. “Oh, well…

Rationality

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Bayes is Out-Dated, and You’re Doing it Wrong
Bayes is Out-Dated, and You’re Doing it Wrong
Rationality

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Predict

·Feb 13

Predictions that Happened, Designs that Worked…

~ a list for myself: some of the times ‘I told you so’… ~ 1998, California — During the froth of the dot-com boom, when the USA was the only country with an internet, and that internet was the New Economy, the Singularity… I was looking at ‘Capital Saturation Curves.’…

Future

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Future

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Feb 6

PERGAMMA: Radiant Life

~ a sketch of a radio-active world and its life-forms… somewhere ~ Pergamma should be dead. No sun envelopes her rocky surface in warmth; the frost descends in cyclonic fury, deafening with terrible lightning flashes, ceaselessly. …

Science Fiction

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Science Fiction

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Predict

·Feb 4

O(“AGI Safety”)>O(“Stop Tyrants”)

~ AGI safety is at LEAST as hard as a protocol which prevents tyranny ~ When we want to keep ourselves safe from AGI, (Aritificial General Intelligence) then one of the key criteria is “can we turn it off if it tries to go berserk?” That is the same requirement…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Jan 24

Effective Altruists Maximized Happiness!

~ by creating an AGI that forces you to be happy… ~ Oh, wait, no — Effective Altruism DOESN’T want Artificial General Intelligence, because EA is terrified of some ‘amorphous entity with no accountability which decides the fate of humanity without listening to the rest of us’, in the form…

Effective Altruism

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Effective Altruism

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Jan 2

Sail Over Mountains of ICE…

~ constant winds carry ships FAST on Arctic ice-highways, easily made! ~ TL;DR — Ice Ships are frickin’ insane. With a mast and sail, a wide flat body, and innumerable skates, these sailboats are able to haul tonnage across frozen lakes and glaciers at up to 85 miles per hour…

Transportation

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Sail Over Mountains of ICE…
Sail Over Mountains of ICE…
Transportation

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DataDrivenInvestor

·Dec 20, 2022

The Case for Chip-Backed Dollars

~ NOT crypto-dollars; actual computer chips = dollars ~ TL;DR — A currency is ‘backed’ by the thing you get for it when you hand-in your dollar to the bank. It used to be that you could go to the bank with your paper dollar, which was really just a…

Cryptocurrency

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The Case for Chip-Backed Dollars
The Case for Chip-Backed Dollars
Cryptocurrency

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Predict

·Dec 20, 2022

Apocalypse, Inch by Inch…

~ Robotic warfare advancements knell a Dark Age ~ TL;DR — Robotic weapons systems are on a tear. Ukraine’s demand, and Russia’s stuttering response, are fueling a new era of warfare. In particular, Elbit System’s new “Lanius” is literally a tiny *racing* drone with a claymore mine attached to the…

Robotics

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Apocalypse, Inch by Inch…
Apocalypse, Inch by Inch…
Robotics

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Dec 7, 2022

My Sanity-Checklist for Relationships

~ easy points to ensure relationships as good as the best so far ~ Starting simply: Mending The most important commitment of the relationship is NOT “staying together” — instead, it’s “IF we break apart, we mend the hurt with each other before we go.” We don’t leave each other…

Relationships

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Relationships

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