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Furry image generators are pretty big right now and quite good imo. I haven't yet seen furry rat mascot but contributions welcome :)
problem with set of synonyms is that it can be long. i have, however, started using cards like "remember at least 4 of these 6 things" - e.g. "symptoms of acute HIV infection"
I agree with you that utility-maximizing "maximum optimization power" AIs need to have some knowledge of human values to be safe - at least enough to avoid bad side effects.
On the other hand, I think that when you have an AI that can safely create 2 copies of the same strawberry, there might still be problems to solve that the AI might not already be solved at that point - like how to aggregate preferences of various people, how to extrapolate human values into weird situations, etc.
On the other other hand, some alignment problems give me the impression that they're independent of human values - like mesa-optimization or "Look where I'm pointing, not at my finger".
Maybe "to what degree is solving this subproblem of alignment necessary to have a safe strawberry cloner" might be an interesting distinction.
I'm obese and struggle with weight loss, so this is a particularly sad story to hear. My experience makes me think a lot of my issues could be improved just by having someone, like, standing 24/7 by my side going "hey" when I go to buy ice cream, stress-eat etc.
Would you be willing to make the pieces you made available to someone who wanted to pick up where you ended? I'd probably not be that person, though (because don't have the spoons).
I wrote it as the sort of advice that I think might have been useful to me a couple years back, and to counteract the specific issue of "getting cornered to into conceding that you messed up though you don't believe you messed up". I think it's good advice for people-like-past-me, but as a targeted intervention, maybe a TAP like "about to apologize for something that was not a mess-up --> don't apologize unless you mean it". (That is a salient trigger for me, because "I'm apologizing for something that was not a mess-up" has a distinctly different quality for me from "I'm apologizing for something I messed up" - sort of like "appeasing someone angry" vs. "asking for forgiveness".)
It's a bit unfortunate that English uses the words "I'm sorry" to express for what many languages have 2 distinct terms: "I apologize for messing up" and "I sympathize".
in a conversation where someone has recently been hurt, it is often the wrong time to be coldly pedantic.
Yeah. I haven't outright banned the words "I'm sorry" from my normal vocabulary. I will often say "I'm sorry that you're going through this" when it's contextually obvious that I'm not apologizing.
If someone is having a hard time caused by me, but I believe that I did not act wrongly (imagine scenarios like giving people negative feedback, breakups, defending boundaries, etc.), I avoid saying "I'm sorry", though I might say something like "I wish you weren't suffering" or "I understand this must hurt" or such. In these situations "I'm sorry" has the danger of being heard as "I apologize" or "I was wrong to act this way", and it's important to be able to stand your ground while e.g. giving people negative feedback, breaking up, defending your boundaries, etc.
You're right, that didn't occur to me to mention. (My native language separate idioms for that use.)
Yeah, you're right - I'm equivocating between learning from "feedback from listener" and "feedback from master of the skill". Thanks for the links, I'll put them on The List.
(Hmm, now that I'm seeing them on Goodreads they seem to be about male-female-sex-for-male-readers, which lowers their value for me as I'm pan, but then, writing gender-general sex advice is probably harder than specific-combination advice...)
Yep, some people won't share that enthusiasm, and I guess that's okay-ish. Would make long-term things harder than necessary though.
When I was thinking about this, what I had in mind was "Be a smart optimizer. If the best use of your resources right now is to go slack off for a day to regain energy, do that. Better than to have 15 productive minutes and then crash."
I am really rarely in "optimizer mode", and wrote this in a moment of inspiration.
Here's the promised Anki stats PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EwqIAUbgeYU9czF1YcxITZvL3D0JNe5N/view?usp=sharing
Hi Pablo. Thanks for the link to the formula, I did not know someone already looked into it. At some point I estimated that it cost me ~250 s to learn a card in the first year.
In the last year, it looks like I spent ~1 hour per day reviewing on average. When I'm on my desktop computer, I'll share the Anki statistics PDF.
I think one reason the formula might be underestimating is because I keep expanding my deck over time, so there's a mix of newer and older cards.
I am also a bit concerned that I might be adding cards not always for what's most useful to learn, but for what's easiest to Ankify. So recently even though I've been wanting to study more ML papers, I've been mostly adding programming because it's easier... :/
It's aestethics but more aestetic :)
Hmm yeah, looks like you're right. That's surprising, if memory serves me right I read it for free and legally. If you Google for "Anki essentials PDF" the first result is a PDF that seems to be from Alex Vermeer's own site, but maybe that's a limited version. Or maybe I'm misremembering the circumstances of how I read the book.
The extra "the" was a typo but seeing it later I decided it's not :)
I just wrote some CSS and JavaScript over the weekend, planning to share soon.
Set of people:
- authors or thinkers who I want to recall (e.g., "Sam Harris is the mindfulness and antireligion guy")
- people I notice I confuse with other people
- people who I notice I can't remember their name when I meet them (but do know them) - typically people I know and like but don't meet with regularly enough
- coworkers in my broader team, my management chain
Photos: publicly available photos if googleable, pics from names and faces slides from meetups
Hi! I'm Michael aka Rai, one of the organizers involved. Here's my take.
Roland creeps me out in a S1 way. I am not comfortable holding conversations (especially about personal things) around him. One day, I realized that I am not the only person feeling uncomfortable about Roland.
One of my chief aims as the current de-facto organizer of Rationality Zurich is to have a social group which is pleasant for the people involved, and I have come to believe that Roland's presence at the meetups is net negative, especially (but not exclusively) for the kinds of things which I would like to do more of at Rationality Zurich. Circling is a good example of those things.
I think there are ways Roland could change that would make me feel less creeped out, and maybe reverse the decision (mine was to ban Roland from meetups I organize) - roughly, more social intelligence or empathy. But fixing that is not my responsibility.