Timeline of major Eliezer Yudkowsky publications
post by lukeprog · 2011-09-18T15:53:30.022Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 19 commentsBelow is a timeline of major Eliezer Yudkowsky publications. Note that, to my knowledge, everything on AI before 2006 is now obsolete. That's the nature of a quickly-moving field!
- Staring into the Singularity (1996) [Eliezer age 17]
- Coding a Transhuman AI 1.0 (1998)
- Frequently Asked Questions about the Meaning of Life (1999)
- The Plan to Singularity (1999)
- Coding a Transhuman AI 2.2 (2000)
- General Intelligence and Seed AI (2001)
- Creating Friendly AI (2001)
- Levels of Organization in General Intelligence (2002)
- An Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning (2003)
- Coherent Extrapolated Volition (2004)
- A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation (2005)
- Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks (2006)
- Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk (2006)
- The Less Wrong Sequences (2006-2009)
- Three Worlds Collide (2009)
- Timeless Decision Theory (2010)
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (2010-2011)
- Complex Value Systems are Required to Realize Valuable Futures (2011)
- The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2011) - w/ Nick Bostrom
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comment by [deleted] · 2011-09-18T17:01:08.239Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Wikipedia says the Singularity institute was founded in 2000, but the 1996 essay mentions it a few times. What's the prehistory of the organization?
Replies from: lukeprog↑ comment by lukeprog · 2011-09-18T17:07:46.918Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
The earliest version of 'Staring at the Singularity' I can find was updated in 2000, after Singularity Institute was founded. The document was updated with, among other things, links to the new organization's website.
Replies from: jaime2000comment by [deleted] · 2011-09-19T02:30:21.117Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Thanks for posting these! Reading Eliezer's early work is very interesting, and it sheds a little more light on the Coming of Age sequence. It's obvious that the Eliezer of today has a much greater understanding of his own understanding, and is better than his previous self (and pretty much everyone else I know) at untangling cognitive confusions.
It's also amusing to see that Eliezer_17 was apparently an avid Calvin and Hobbes fan.
Replies from: jsalvatier↑ comment by jsalvatier · 2011-09-19T15:06:08.896Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
There's even some fan fic. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5731071/1/Peggy_Susie
Replies from: Manfred, JoshuaZ↑ comment by Manfred · 2012-01-15T06:40:06.179Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Sheesh, the internet holds memories like an embarrassing aunt.
Choose one of the following:
a) the memories are like an embarrassing aunt.
b) the internet's memory is like that of an embarrassing aunt.
c) the internet holds memories like it holds an embarrassing aunt.
↑ comment by TheOtherDave · 2012-01-15T19:12:15.533Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Giving the internet the ability to hold my embarrassing aunt the way it currently holds memories might make family reunions a lot more pleasant. Conversely, it might make the rest of my life significantly less so.
↑ comment by JoshuaZ · 2011-09-19T15:10:18.094Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Wow. Reading that story now. You can see how Eliezer's writing style has changed. But his ability to come up with amazingly clever modifications of existing works is already there.
Edit: And there's only one chapter? Really? That's sort of sad. Hmm,
V qb unir gb jbaqre vs gur Thneqvna Ornfg vf fhccbfrq gb or Uboorf.
Replies from: jsalvatier, None↑ comment by jsalvatier · 2011-09-19T15:13:25.085Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I don't actually know whether that's old or not. It says it was posted in 2010.
comment by ChrisHallquist · 2012-01-15T06:05:28.303Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
I may have seen this before, but it just hit me how useful it is. It needs to get a prominent link somewhere, or added to the wiki, or something.
comment by Houshalter · 2016-01-10T16:42:52.366Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Many of your links don't work, even through web archive. You should link to the original singinst.org versions. Here's General Intelligence and Seed AI through web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20020605220403/http://www.singinst.org/GISAI/index.html
comment by Zetetic · 2011-09-21T06:17:29.547Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Where is "BARNEY VS. THE FEDERATION" age 14?!
Replies from: Unnamed↑ comment by Unnamed · 2011-09-21T06:23:13.971Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
That was written by another person with the same name.
Edit: I was mistaken, it is the same person. I read his attempt to distance himself from his youthful indiscretions overly literally.
Replies from: Zetetic↑ comment by Zetetic · 2011-09-21T06:36:34.718Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Huh. I'll retract it for now, but I inferred it from the 6th footnote here, taking the fact that it was put up in 1993 by an Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (when Eliezer was "like 13") on that very same message board... are you sure that comment wasn't just an indirect way of saying "Eliezer_1993 did it and Eliezer_2011 bears little resemblance to Eliezer_1993"? The comment you've linked to doesn't seem to bear out what you seem to be asserting (that some other Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsy, genetically distinct from the one we all know and love, had written on that very same message board a post that looks like it was written by a 13/14 year old sci fi fan in 1993). Even if your assertion is true, there still remains the task of finding the writings that the 6th footnote was referring to!
Replies from: Unnamed↑ comment by Unnamed · 2011-09-21T06:54:22.991Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
are you sure that comment wasn't just an indirect way of saying "Eliezer1993 did it and Eliezer2011 bears little resemblance to Eliezer_1993"
You're right - that is what it was. I got wooshed. I'm surprised that you retracted when you have so much evidence to back it up (the date, the middle name, and even a mention in something else written by Eliezer). Does the site let you unretract?
Replies from: Zetetic