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Comment by Vasco Grilo (vascoamaralgrilo) on Fun with +12 OOMs of Compute · 2023-11-06T18:34:41.975Z · LW · GW

Hi there,

Assuming 10^6 bit erasures per FLOP (as you did; which source are you using?), one only needs 8.06*10^13 kWh (= 2.9*10^(-21)*10^(35+6)/(3.6*10^6)), i.e. 2.83 (= 8.06*10^13/(2.85*10^13)) times global electricity generation in 2022, or 18.7 (= 8.06*10^13/(4.30*10^12)) times the one generated in the United States.

Comment by Vasco Grilo (vascoamaralgrilo) on How to Measure Anything · 2023-10-30T19:12:46.102Z · LW · GW

Thanks!

Comment by Vasco Grilo (vascoamaralgrilo) on How to Measure Anything · 2023-10-29T08:11:00.339Z · LW · GW

Nice post, Luke!

with this handy reference table:

There is no table after this.

He also offers a chart showing how a pure Bayesian estimator compares to other estimators:

There is no chart after this.

Comment by Vasco Grilo (vascoamaralgrilo) on Predictors exist: CDT going bonkers... forever · 2023-08-03T11:03:59.732Z · LW · GW

Thanks for this clarifying comment, Daniel!

Comment by Vasco Grilo (vascoamaralgrilo) on Why the tails come apart · 2023-07-11T10:25:50.122Z · LW · GW

Great post!

The R-square measure of correlation between two sets of data is the same as the cosine of the angle between them when presented as vectors in N-dimensional space

Not R-square, just R:

Comment by Vasco Grilo (vascoamaralgrilo) on When is unaligned AI morally valuable? · 2023-06-12T17:46:13.305Z · LW · GW

Nice post! I would be curious to know whether significant thinking has been done on this topic since your post.

Comment by Vasco Grilo (vascoamaralgrilo) on A Barebones Guide to Mechanistic Interpretability Prerequisites · 2022-11-29T23:00:45.570Z · LW · GW

Great!

Comment by Vasco Grilo (vascoamaralgrilo) on A Barebones Guide to Mechanistic Interpretability Prerequisites · 2022-11-29T14:36:19.993Z · LW · GW

Thanks for writing this!

Have you considered crossposting to the EA Forum (although the post was mentioned here)?

Comment by Vasco Grilo (vascoamaralgrilo) on Preliminary thoughts on moral weight · 2022-06-03T15:18:13.516Z · LW · GW

With a loguniform distribution, the mean moral weight is stable and roughly equal to 2.

Comment by Vasco Grilo (vascoamaralgrilo) on Preliminary thoughts on moral weight · 2022-05-27T15:55:01.728Z · LW · GW

Thanks for the post!

I was trying to use the lower and upper estimates of 5*10^-5 and 10, guessed for the moral weight of chickens relative to humans, as the 10th and 90th percentiles of a lognormal distribution. This resulted in a mean moral weight of 1000 to 2000 (the result is not stable), which seems too high, and a median of 0.02.

1- Do you have any suggestions for a more reasonable distribution?

2-  Do you have any tips for stabilising the results for the mean? 

I think I understand the problems of taking expectations over moral weights (E(X) is not equal to 1/E(1/X)), but believe that it might still be possible to determine a reasonable distribution for the moral weight.

Comment by Vasco Grilo (vascoamaralgrilo) on The Allais Paradox · 2022-04-18T08:47:26.095Z · LW · GW

"These two equations are algebraically inconsistent". Yes, combining them results into "0 < 0", which is false.