Boltzmann in Latent Space 2025-03-21T16:38:18.890Z

Comment by velicyb on North Oakland: Short Talks, March 26th - THE LAST · 2025-03-27T01:07:21.361Z · LW · GW

Got the starting time mixed up... 😅

Comment by velicyb on North Oakland: Short Talks, March 26th - THE LAST · 2025-03-21T05:22:57.203Z · LW · GW

Intending to do an in-character presentation on simulating black swans for fun and profit driven alignment.
Hypothesis: gamification and financial incentives have an incredibly strong track record of guiding intelligent processes i.e. human behavior, and can naively be expected to generalize to intelligent processes at large. I'm particularly curious how a combined methodology can be used to improve overall outcomes concerning "black swan" technologies that stand to disrupt existing systems in unprecedented ways, and intend to present several fictional examples in the style of a call for research and investment.