Open & Welcome Thread - December 2022

Is there anyone who has created an ethical development framework for developing a GAI - from the AI's perspective?

That is, are there any developers that are trying to establish principles for not creating someone like Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - similar to how MIRI is trying to establish principles for not creating a non-aligned AI?

EDIT: The latter problem is definitely more pressing at the moment, and I would guess that an AI would be a threat to humans before it necessitates any ethical considerations...but better to be on the safe side.

Hello, I am a Chinese bioinformatics engineer currently working on oncological genomics in China. I have ~2 years of work experience, and my undergraduate was in the US. My personal interests include AI and military robotics, and I would love to work in these fields in the future. 

Currently, I am planning on getting a Master's degree in the US and/or working in AI development there. I am open to any and all recommendations and job/academic offers. My expertise lies in genomic analysis with R, writing papers, and finding/summarizing research, and am open to part-time and remote working opportunities.

Something specific I have questions about is the possibility of starting off as a non-degree remote graduate student and then transitioning to a degree program. Is this a good idea?

Sorry for the site downtime earlier today. We had an overly aggressive crawler that probably sidestepped our rate limits and bot-protection by making lots of queries against GreaterWrong, which we have whitelisted. Enough to just completely take our database down (which then took half an hour to restart because of course MongoDB takes half an hour to restart when under load).

We temporarily blocked traffic from GreaterWrong and are merging some changes to fix the underlying expensive queries.

This is the December 2022 thread; a new one needs to be created for January.

Mod note: you're welcome to make alt accounts on LessWrong! Enough people have asked over the years that I want to clarify that this is okay, and that you don't need to ask permission or anything.

The only norms are that you do not have the alts talk with each other (i.e. act as sock-puppets) or vote on each others' contributions, which is a bannable offense. 

Would anyone like to help me do a simulation Turing test? I'll need two (convincingly-human) volunteers, and I'll be the judge, though I'm also happy to do or set up more where someone else is the judge if there is demand.

I often hear comments on the Turing test that do not, IMO, apply to an actual Turing test, and so want an example of what a real Turing test would look like that I can point at. Also it might be fun to try to figure out which of two humans is most convincingly not a robot.

Logs would be public. Most details (length, date, time, medium) will be improvised based on what works well for whoever signs on.

(Originally posted a few days ago in the previous thread.)

What does 'Hide from frontpage' do exactly? Would be nice to have a hover tooltip.

People often miss the Bay Solstice Feedback form, so, re-posting here and various places. This year it focuses on bigger picture questions rather than individual songs.

It also includes "I would like to run Summer or Winter Solstice this upcoming year" questions, if you're into that.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrnL5aLcHwXHLicBTNpLwRBvXHz86Hv4OjKrS_hPWtfmAjlA/viewform 

User LVSN [LW · GW] has several shortform posts but no visible shortform. The shortform posts appear as comments with no attributed post title which link to lesswrong.com (the href property is set to "/"). They have no shortform post, which appears to usually be pinned on top of a user's posts.

Does anyone know what this means? They were not aware of it when I talked to them.