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man this is really nice. feels more like hanging out in a den or something.

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@WomanCorn Thanks for the heads up! I would've interacted with guy 🤢

Prediction this makes: conflict theorists more often profess Knightian uncertainty about a thing

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Knightian uncertainty is applicable if there is a process explicitely optimising against your belief state

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1. Solving easy problem of corrigibility (while still adhering to vNM axioms)
2. Interpretability to the level that we can extract a hand-coded algorithm from AlphaFold 2, and similar feats (maybe in total 100 bio. invested in interpretability or sth?)
3. Make GPT-4 never say *anything* violent
4. Formula for embedded diamond maximizer

Would at least make me think "ok, I should probably focus on other things"

It is unfortunate that positive/negative can mean "presence"/"absence" and "being for"/"being against".

It is similarly unfortunate that "phobic" can mean both "afraid of" and "being against".

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