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Incidentally, since various corporations and individuals have discussed their alignment strategies, I feel like I should disclose mine too.

Basically, my plan is to have the AI repeatedly watch "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" until it successfully internalizes equine values.

The translation of Latin "defectus" is "failure"

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@genmaicha nice list! Mine is

* Human Compatible (AI alignment)
* The Machinery of Freedom (anarcho-capitalism)
* The Dead Souls
* Friedrich Schiller: Sämtliche Gedichte Und Balladen
* Statistics with Julia
* Starting Strength (weightlifting)
* Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour (game theory)
* An Infinitely Large Napkin (math)
* Grand Futures (futurology)

@Paradox Here on less wrong dot com we only have the finest longposts

Having a forum function both as a preprint server and a place to vent your social drama is bound to run into some conflict

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8 🫣

I will probably finish 6 of those eventually, the other two are technical

What are you reading atm?

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Praise unstable marginal equilibria! Praise musement! Praise freedom! Praise the gradient Form of the Good!

@urusan five words:

Beware cities with two airports

Is the humane nose optimized as to pull in air as widely as possible and then exhale it in one specific direction?

Would make sense as to not breathe in the air you already deoxygenated

PSA: numpy.isclose is neither symmetric nor transitive 💔

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