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Comment by Teerth Aloke on [linkpost] Elon Musk plans AI start-up to rival OpenAI · 2023-04-17T00:52:15.665Z · LW · GW

The accelerationist and the doomer souls living in one body apparently. 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Has anyone thought about how to proceed now that AI notkilleveryoneism is becoming more relevant/is approaching the Overton window? · 2023-04-05T04:46:07.628Z · LW · GW

How about coordinate legal actions to have chatbots banned, like ChatGPT was banned in Italy? Is it possible?

If successful this would weaken the incentive for devealopment of new AI models.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Exposure to Lizardman is Lethal · 2023-04-03T00:56:26.650Z · LW · GW

As per a survey, 7% Nigerian Christians like ISIS. That is another example of this phenomenon.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on What could EA's new name be? · 2023-04-02T12:53:20.966Z · LW · GW

QA sessions.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Harry Potter and the Data Centers of Doom · 2023-04-02T12:50:29.127Z · LW · GW

Some people in this community are thinking out of the box. I fully support this, all options must be on the table.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky · 2023-04-01T15:32:34.219Z · LW · GW

However, one cannot make universal statements. The efficacy of violent and nonviolent methods depend upon the exact context. If someone believes in an imminent hard takeoff, and gives high credence to Doom, violent activity may be rational.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky · 2023-03-30T02:57:09.201Z · LW · GW

Exactly my thought, but how to get it done?

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Metaculus Predicts Weak AGI in 2 Years and AGI in 10 · 2023-03-25T03:04:55.738Z · LW · GW

Difference in criteria.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on GPT-4 and ASCII Images? · 2023-03-20T01:50:49.802Z · LW · GW

In my understanding, this is only possible by rote memorization.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on An Appeal to AI Superintelligence: Reasons to Preserve Humanity · 2023-03-19T11:56:08.005Z · LW · GW

Yes, have you considered any reasonable strategy to provoke a nuclear war, as the worst-case plan to stop AI progress? 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on An Appeal to AI Superintelligence: Reasons to Preserve Humanity · 2023-03-19T03:58:22.812Z · LW · GW

Honestly, some of these arguments are laughable, like the ones about aliens and Everett branches. I don't think that an AI would believe this. 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on GPT-4 · 2023-03-16T03:00:12.529Z · LW · GW

Not public data, at least.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on (Cryonics) can I be frozen before being near-death? · 2023-03-01T09:11:18.560Z · LW · GW

You are contemplating suicide. Seek help. 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Fertility Rate Roundup #1 · 2023-02-28T13:03:26.751Z · LW · GW

They are looking to China, perhaps, as a new patron. 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Fertility Rate Roundup #1 · 2023-02-27T15:33:16.424Z · LW · GW

We will see in Afghanistan whether banning contraception is one of those viable policies to inflate fertility.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on [Prediction] Humanity will survive the next hundred years · 2023-02-27T11:07:52.204Z · LW · GW

Admitted. 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on [Prediction] Humanity will survive the next hundred years · 2023-02-26T06:03:34.851Z · LW · GW

Biowarfare won't kill everyone. Nuclear war won't kill everyone. Anthropogenic global warming won't kill everyone. At worst, these will destroy civilization which, counterintuitively, makes Homo sapiens more likely to survive on the short term (century). The same goes for minor natural disasters like volcanic eruptions.

Natural disasters like giant meteors, or perhaps a gamma ray burst, are unlikely. The last time something like that happened was 66 million years ago. The odds of something similar happening in the next century are on the order of . That's small enough to ignore for the purposes of this bet. The only way everyone dies is via AI

Strongly agreed with this. The only non-infinitesimal probability of human extinction comes from an alien intelligence (like AI) actively pursuing the goal of human extinction.  

Comment by Teerth Aloke on OpenAI/Microsoft announce "next generation language model" integrated into Bing/Edge · 2023-02-08T11:22:34.259Z · LW · GW

It appears that Microsoft and Google are know in a high-stakes race. That somehow must be increasing the likelihood of catastrophe. 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on OpenAI/Microsoft announce "next generation language model" integrated into Bing/Edge · 2023-02-08T11:21:37.863Z · LW · GW
Comment by Teerth Aloke on What fact that you know is true but most people aren't ready to accept it? · 2023-02-03T13:34:46.126Z · LW · GW

Ethnic violence is rarely one sided.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Quantum Suicide, Decision Theory, and The Multiverse · 2023-01-23T16:12:20.380Z · LW · GW

What? When? Where?

Comment by Teerth Aloke on The spiritual benefits of material progress · 2023-01-20T03:24:03.797Z · LW · GW

The vast majority of chicken would not have existed but for the meat industry. Would you accept that argument?

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil: A Report on the Beguilings of Evil · 2023-01-04T14:46:59.965Z · LW · GW

So, did it happen due to atheism? 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil: A Report on the Beguilings of Evil · 2023-01-03T12:49:28.028Z · LW · GW

With God, 9/11 was permitted for Mohammed Atta, Inquisition for medieval Catholics, and so on. With it was permitted the brutal massacres of the Crusaders in the Middle East (against Muslims) and in France against heretics. With Him was permitted the pogroms against Jews in medieval Europe. 

You see the evils of WW2, but what caused the evils of the Thirty Year War, as a part of the European Wars of Religion? What caused evils during the brutal Arab-Islamic conquests?

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Let’s think about slowing down AI · 2022-12-23T05:04:04.943Z · LW · GW

Hypothetically, if you know an AI lab is very close to developing AGI which is very likely to destroy humanity, and the only way to stop it is to carry out a bomb blast on the premises of the organization, would you not do it? 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Let’s think about slowing down AI · 2022-12-23T04:26:12.721Z · LW · GW

From a longtermist viewpoint, even the tactic of terrorism to prevent X-Risk cannot and should not be ruled out. If the future of humanity is at stake, any laws and deontological rules can be overruled.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on "Rudeness", a useful coordination mechanic · 2022-11-12T02:25:04.598Z · LW · GW

I didn't comprehend your purpose

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Ukraine and the Crimea Question · 2022-11-01T12:56:49.505Z · LW · GW

Ever heard of scorched earth?

Comment by Teerth Aloke on The Social Recession: By the Numbers · 2022-10-31T23:51:20.894Z · LW · GW

Any data for India?

Comment by Teerth Aloke on The Social Recession: By the Numbers · 2022-10-30T12:45:44.442Z · LW · GW

To what extent can these trends be observed in other countries, I wonder? 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Ukraine and the Crimea Question · 2022-10-29T05:13:51.397Z · LW · GW

Dispelling the one-sided narrative is necessary to build a consensus for peace negotiations

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Ukraine and the Crimea Question · 2022-10-29T05:06:37.040Z · LW · GW

What is your assessment of reports of Russian atrocities against Ukrainian civilians? (I have come to doubt a lot of what I hear in the news)

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Why I think there's a one-in-six chance of an imminent global nuclear war · 2022-10-23T16:41:51.630Z · LW · GW

Honest opinion

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Why I think there's a one-in-six chance of an imminent global nuclear war · 2022-10-10T13:12:08.030Z · LW · GW

Perhaps a nuclear war today would reduce the possibility of human extinction within this century. It appears that AGI is close, without substantial progress in AI Safety. A nuclear war, would, I believe cause a major slowdown in AI progress, increasing the probability of getting an aligned AI at the end. 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on How to plan for a radically uncertain future? · 2022-08-31T05:29:19.143Z · LW · GW

I am an Indian, do you think migrating Northwards should be a priority?

Comment by Teerth Aloke on We Live in a Post-Scarcity Society · 2021-11-01T09:48:06.621Z · LW · GW

True, and income distribution is far less unequal. 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Explaining Capitalism Harder · 2021-10-17T13:23:25.785Z · LW · GW

Realistically, giving is insufficient for even a modest redistribution of wealth. Government intervention is and has been far more effective in this aspect.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on To every people according to their language · 2021-10-05T04:37:06.103Z · LW · GW

It will be essentially a Secular Judaism, where the scriptures only speak of the common values to be achieved by human effort, and not about future miracles. It will be a vision that some secularized Rabbis may even agree to. 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on SIA > SSA, part 1: Learning from the fact that you exist · 2021-10-01T08:29:06.044Z · LW · GW

My intuition was that the prior probability of head and tails hypotheses should be 50% each. Since existence is not evidence to update in favour of any of these theories, being 100% likely under both, we end up with the 1:1 odds ratio.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Anatomy of a full school climate strike · 2021-08-24T02:15:43.736Z · LW · GW

A coordination committee with a clear realistic understanding will be required otherwise radicals will accept no proposal. (Case in point: Indian farmer's ongoing protest)

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Anatomy of a full school climate strike · 2021-08-22T15:41:45.129Z · LW · GW

But what will be the demand? Without a clear demand, the strike will fail.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Any recommendation for reading material for pre-school children [3-4 yr]? · 2021-08-21T06:46:53.437Z · LW · GW

I don't think that will be necessary.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on [Prediction] What war between the USA and China would look like in 2050 · 2021-08-20T14:18:07.227Z · LW · GW

Indians mostly hate China, and this feeling is almost universal in the dominant party.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on What are some triggers that prompt you to do a Fermi estimate, or to pull up a spreadsheet and make a simple/rough quantitative model? · 2021-08-16T16:24:02.090Z · LW · GW

Yes

Comment by Teerth Aloke on [deleted post] 2021-08-16T16:11:13.829Z

Hello fellow Indian.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on How The West Was Won · 2021-08-15T14:41:21.482Z · LW · GW

Not just Islam. It was illegal in India 3 years back. Also, Christian majority Barbados, Antigua, Camroon, Burundi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and a few other African countries ban homosexuality. 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on What 2026 looks like · 2021-08-08T13:50:52.632Z · LW · GW

I got the idea. I would also update to a very short timeline (4-5 years) in the absence of slowdown in dense-network parameter growth l, and performance following the scaling trend. And I was pretty scared when GPT-3 was released. As many here, I was expected further growth in that direction very soon which did not happen. So, I am less scared now.

Comment by Teerth Aloke on What 2026 looks like · 2021-08-08T01:33:38.760Z · LW · GW

What will be your new median? (If you observe 32 trillion parameter model in 2023)

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Industrial literacy · 2021-07-23T14:55:38.017Z · LW · GW

I consider the absence of industrial literacy a big problem. 

Comment by Teerth Aloke on Book review: The Explanation of Ideology · 2021-07-23T14:48:42.056Z · LW · GW

Not living with parents as adults is increasingly common in India due to the expansion of higher education.