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These are either tendentious ("Juggernaut") or unnecessarily specific to the present moment ("Mega-Corp").

How about simply "AI Watch"?

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I guess for a cat classifier disentanglement is not possible, because it wants to classify things as cats if and only if it believes they are cats. Since values and beliefs are perfectly correlated here, there is no test we could perform which would distinguish what it wants from what it believes.

Though we could assume we don't know what the classifier wants. If it doesn't classify a cat image as "yes", it could be because it is (say) actually a dog classifier, and it correctly believes the image contains something other than a dog. Or it could be because it is indeed a cat classifier, but it mistakenly believes the image doesn't show a cat.

One way to find out would be to give the classifier an image of the same subject, but in higher resolution or from another angle, and check whether it changes its classification to "yes". If it is a car classifier, it is likely it won't make the mistake again, so it probably change its classification to "yes". If it is a dog classifier, it will likely stay with "no".

This assumes that mistakes are random and somewhat unlikely, so will probably disappear when the evidence is better or of a different sort. Beliefs react to changes in evidence of that sort, while values don't.

Yes I didn't even know the difference :) I thought tap is only for pub beer ! Totally disconnected from the exams where you only dealt with essays

I’m only a year old rationalist

you write really eloquently for your age! and being in uni! wow. I was still learning to walk. kids are so precocious these days

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“Whiteboards everywhere” and my non-ironic favourite band are debuting songs!!!

But, I’m only a year old rationalist and I live in Australia on a uni student budget. Still… I’m considering flying out. It would be pretty incredible to run some abstract improv workshops with other truth seeking nerds. I think I need to sit down and calculate.

Is this the type of event that a first year rationalist could attend and get value from/be welcome at? What is the likelihood that it will run again next year? Is there a prediction market for that?

a ui on your user page where you get to pick a four letter shortening of your name and a color. the shortening is displayed as 

t g
t a

in a tiny color-of-your-choice box. when picking your name, each time you pick a hue and saturation in the color picker (use a standard one, don't build a color picker), it does a query (debounced - I hope you have a standard way to debounce in react elements) for other people on the site who have that initialism, and shows you their colors in a list, along with an indicator min(color_distance(you.color, them.color) for them in other_users).

the color distance indicator could be something like the one from here, which would need transliterating into javascript:
 

This formula has results that are very close to L^*u^*v^* (with the modified lightness curve) and, more importantly, it is a more stable algorithm: it does not have a range of colours where it suddenly gives far from optimal results. The weights of the formula could be optimized further, but again, the selection of the closest colour is subjective. My goal was to find a reasonable compromise.

typedef struct {
   unsigned char r, g, b;
} RGB;

double ColourDistance(RGB e1, RGB e2)
{
  long rmean = ( (long)e1.r + (long)e2.r ) / 2;
  long r = (long)e1.r - (long)e2.r;
  long g = (long)e1.g - (long)e2.g;
  long b = (long)e1.b - (long)e2.b;
  return sqrt((((512+rmean)*r*r)>>8) + 4*g*g + (((767-rmean)*b*b)>>8));
}

That’s a great question! I’ve been teaching arts classes for a youth charity for 5 years now. Ages range from 5-18. I myself am 23.

I’d say this has happened twice? I’m counting a one off lesson with some 16-18 year olds a few years ago. And a series of weeks in which I had extremely little control over some 8-10 year olds. In that case I was able to control individuals if they had my full attention. But would ‘lose’ them when I focused on the next kid.

Your question caused me to think of why these things may have happened. Though I’m curious to hear what you think before I spill my guts.

thanks, it worked! https://web.archive.org/web/20150412211654/http://reducing-suffering.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/wild-animals_2015-02-28.pdf

i want a better conceptual understanding of what "fundamental values" means, and how to disentangled that from beliefs (ex.: in an LLM). like, is there a meaningful way we can say that a "cat classifier" is valuing classifying cats even though it sometimes fail?