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I don't want to be provocative, but if there was political will to stop AGI research it could probably be stalled for a long time. In order to get that political will, not only in the West but in China as well, a pretty effective way to do it might be figure out a way to use a pre-AGI model to cause mayhem/harm that's bad enough to get the world's attention, while not being apocalyptic.
As a random example, if AI is used somehow to take down the internet for a few days, the discourse and political urgency regarding AGI would change drastically. A close analogue is how quickly the world started caring about Gain-of-function-research after Covid.
https://twitter.com/MetaculusAlert
I disagree. Daily tests have only gone down slightly, which is to be expected if less people are getting infected (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-covid-19-tests-per-day?country=~GBR)
And crucially, it's not only total positive tests per day that has been dropping; the share of positive tests has also been going down significantly: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/uk-covid-positivity
So I don't think your theory passes the sniff test.
I'm personally very confused about the drop in cases, and none of the theories I've heard seem likely.
Qualia Research institute is working on building a catalogue of qualia iirc.
His videos are clearly filmed with a phone, vertically, with no effort whatsoever in terms of production.Also he posted around 15 videos in the span of a couple of monhts, and never posted again. If you contrast that with cooking channels like Adam Ragusea, it's pretty clear why it didn't become as popular.
Yes. I would still use it though. For grand-scheme-of-things stuff, Metaculus is great. For stuff that's personally relevant (What will be my income in 2025 if I switch to X career?) predictions from people with great track records is good enough for me.
Note that the title is super-forecasters as a service, not prediction-markets as a service.
I loved the notation you used to distill the feedback loop idea. I'll add it to the post, if you don't mind.
I asked, thanks for the tips!
Great reply. I share your beliefs on consciousness copying, and would have the same concerns.
As a continuity believer, I think that the original Mona Lisa objectively is more valuable and that only something which destroyed the information of which one that is could possibly render it fungible with a copy - for the same reason I believe that my own continuity of consciousness is an absolutely necessary prerequisite for a being to be defined as "me", and that a perfect copy of me would be another person entirely who just happens to resemble me. The only way you could get me to consider the copy equivalent to myself, is if you erase from existence (or at least from the knowledge I can ever hope to personally access) any evidence of which is which.
I do grant that in some sense there are features of some territory which we could name originality. There's complicated boundary questions, as we've both outlined.
It's not obvious to me why the Mona Lisa would be objectively more valuable; even if it were objectively original, it doesn't follow that the fact that it's original makes it more valuable.
Even if there's a good argument for why it's objectively more valuable, my broader point is that the reason why it's more valuable in practice is because people have maps that say that originals are more valuable than copies.
Whether that's true or not objectively doesn't change that. And those maps were originally brought on because as a heuristic, getting an original X usually brings more utility in many ways than getting a copy. But we are so used to those maps, that even NFT paintings are enough to trigger them, even though there's no conceivable advantage of owning the original. Actually, the sole advantage is that because we are so used to applying the map that rewards us for owning originals, we will in fact gain utility/pleasure just from knowing that it's an original NFT. Very meta.
Unless you value having the original. Imagine a private collector and the head of an art gallery, both happy they have the Mona Lisa. And only the thief who promised the private collector they'd switch it out for a forgery knows which is the forgery, and which, is the original.
Indeed. That maps well to the idea that we value "originals" more for the sake of them being originals, even if they don't provide any additional utility to us compared to copies besides that fact.
- Which ones?
It's a great point. So is your guess that the fact that the new strain originated on the exact country where we do most of the checking for new strains just a coincidence? And not some form of survivorship bias?
Question for Zvi:
I might be coping here. What do you make of the fact that the UK does most of the checking for new Covid strains? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqCPxtmXcAAUdzt?format=jpg&name=small
Isn't it weird that the new more infectious Covid strain that will take over the world just so happens to originate in the only place where we are checking for Covid strains?
Some possibilities:
- It didn't originate in the UK. It's already widespread in many countries, and the UK just happened to detect it.
- There's actually a bunch of more infectious strains all over the place, but they just haven't been detected. The higher infectiousness has already been impacting the covid case numbers for a while.
Jacobian, I'd be very interested to hear what conclusion you come to.