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Here's my lightning talk: I collect advice for learning how to play chess. The largest collection I've found is a slim book called "Rapid Chess Improvement" by Michael de la Maza.
Please send me the rarest advice you've heard of for improving one's chess ability.
I think in non-poly couples, having a mostly Builder or Entertaining relationship is a sign that one or both parties is having an affair.
This is because all the happy couples I know seem to have ~50:50 ratio of building/entertaining. And the unhappy couples have ~0:0. And I only know non-poly couples.
Thanks for pointing out what I think are the common side effects of popular drugs.
Thanks for the quote. The song has haunting lyrics
I enjoyed reading parts 1--6. Is there any chance you could discuss some of your conclusions sooner than 2023? I'd love to tie my feelings of gloom at humans-aligning-themselves-to-algorithms to some call-to-action...
(I think) he thinks that managing/regulating/policing those corporations is the best that humans are willing to do.
So we cannot automate the discovery of unknown unknowns?
(BTW nice diagrams)
Seconding your comment. I wish OP had stated their definition of Consciousness to help clear the confusion in the various terms.
I feel an aversion to thinking about topics related in any way to my dying. No elevated heart rate, unless my person or my livelihood is threatened.
The only safe AGI software is libre AGI software? I buy that.
How is your book club different?
The world needs more poetry. Thanks, Elmer.
What is the day to day work like?
From reading this site it looks like the “heavy-hitters” mostly debate timelines, and possible architectures. There doesn’t seem to be too much concrete work for new researchers to do…
Hey Nate, what's the first thing you'd ask the Friendly AI to do if you knew it existed?
I think we'd like a summary of how the decisions were arrived at
Yeah, and let's not build a machine that can lie very well.
What if we use the commentary from chess games as thoughts?
Signal-boosting this. Here's to more teams working together to get this bounty! ᾔ2
FYI the Faulkner annotated screenplays have about 3 sentences of annotation for every 10 pages.
It'd be hard for humans to compete with AI unless humans can communicate with the AI in reasonable-sized chunks e.g. a 100-page document. Me, I think we should chat in 10-page documents or less ᾓ7ἿE♀️.
It'd be nice to have even a sentence-long summary at the end. There are interesting nuggets but I can't find a justified call-to-action.
Props for emphasizing that a lot of these projects are “tech bundled with services”.
I believe that all software projects are in fact, “tech bundled with services” since the software will need upkeep in order to stay relevant to its users. Of course, I'm biased since I'd love to own one such project.
Thanks for asking this question. If you do start the reading programme, I hope you'll post your plans and progress so I can follow along.
Grinnellian, wut wut. [nnadioge] '06 on plans.
Off the top of my head: perhaps interact with a clique of people for a pre-determined time like a year, then ask them in multiple ways (anonymous feedback form, face-to-face convos etc.) what your impact was.
Just out of curiosity: what kinds of binaries do you need to reverse-engineer on a regular basis?
Could you please put the takeaways at the top of the article, as a tldr?
I don't know. Alcor offered to send my agents the post-mortem CT scan, but haven't gotten back about biopsies.
I think we agree that a safe audit would be desirable. We differ in thinking that the toxicity of ASC is a dealbreaker. Is this accurate?
The most detailed studies of the brain today, which show the locations of dozens of memory-related proteins, are done using aldehydes (the A in ASC) so I hope to be revived as an emulation; I have little hope that my physical body can be rewarmed as is partly because of the difficulty of getting cryoprotectant to every part of the brain.
Come to think of it, if you could be preserved pre-mortem in a territory where that is legal, and then had your body preserved at −135 °C (ABOVE liquid nitrogen temperature and above the temp at which cracks form in the brain), then the body might be viable into the future...
Cryopreservation causes lots of damage, always. What would this show?
Cryopreservation doesn't have to cause damage. For instance, Aldehyde Stabilized Cryopreservation (on pigs) doesn't https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2015.09.003
Brain biopsies, especially by cryo staff, sound dangerous.
Brain biopsies are performed in hospitals e.g. during brain cancer diagnostics. They should not be dangerous to perform
Is there any indication that cryo companies would comply with this? What would associated costs be?
I don't know.
Seconding the point to, save myself and then export the program thereof to the rest of the world.
One model for choosing good names:
(1) selecting the concepts to include in the name, (2) choosing the words to represent each concept, and (3) constructing a name using these words.
"How Developers Choose Names" (2021) by Feitelson et al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07487
Hey Adele, could you please summarize (or link to) the exercises that helped you? I'm having wrist problems as well and I've found that cycling through a wide range of exercises helps
Hey Raj, I don't know you and you may DM me to have a conversation after which I can provide feedback.
It looks like Singer subscribes to the maxim, "Give until you're unable to take care of yourself and your loved ones."
I like this framing better than the drowning child analogy since the trigger for the action pattern of giving is well-defined. Thanks for pointing this article out, Chris_Leong.
Props for writing up these out-of-the-box ideas. Hemispherectomies especially. I wonder how risky the procedure is.
Haha, I live in Lagos too. One day we'll have a proper meetup :)
Malnutrition is the visible surface symptom of "these are uncivilised, backwards people caught in a series of petty tribal wars".
I agree.
Could you tell me how you came about the list of African backward values? I currently live in an African country; I'd like the names of all the values I'd need to instil to avoid seeing preventable suffering around me.
(FYI I'd thought that having a public list of salaries and paying higher taxes, a la Norway, would be mostly sufficient to fix things)
Perhaps put these files up on the Internet Archive (http://archive.org/upload/) so they're preserved "forever"
Hey, turchin, do you mind explaining how you came about your final goals i.e. infinite evolution?
I'm looking for a way to test which final goal is more right. My current best guess for my final goal is, "avoiding pain and promoting play" and I've heard someone say, alternatively "beauty in the universe and eyes to see it." It would be neat if these different goals are reconcilable in some way.
I would love to hear your opinion since I have many loved ones currently planning to have kids. Do you mind DMing me your opinion?
Hi SquirrellInHell, how would you respond to the comment left on the original post that having kids is likely net bad for the kids but net good for the world?
Instead, the process you describe of "overthinking your motivations" and acting on abstract reasoning has led me to believe that having kids actually harms the kids. I'm not sacrificing their lives to the altruism of letting them improve the lives of everyone else.
Hey Duncan, where can I sign up for this?
Hey Ray, would you mind posting the notes from the unconference? With the CFAR hackathon coming up, the notes might give me ideas of hacks to work on.
Thanks for writing this Gordon. I was struck by this paragraph:
By making clever choices in the company we keep and the cultures we engage, as adults we can insulate ourselves from the fullness of the world
I'd never considered that my cleverness in avoiding aversive stimuli could hurt me in the long run.