niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

pronouns:

repurposing honeypots for ai safety?

not being enlightened is like looking for the ringing alarm clock everywhere in the apartment & not finding it while still dreaming

Logarithmic valence views might suffer from an odd problem: They are, in some sense, *too obvious*, so that everyone says “yeah, that seems true” and goes on doing exactly what they did before.

“AI” refers to the observation that computers, over time, can do more & more things

The name niplav is based on a roof tile of the University of Maryland, which matches the sequence number and neuroscience thread index, which is how neuroscience researchers manage their data.

“Dodecahedron Assemblies was the publication I chose to read on my way to heaven”—apparently Uriel has managed to gain a bit of control over the Gato agent.

I really look forward to the next AI winter! We'll all cozy up inside by the fireside in thick markov blankets, everyone finds a new agent foundations paper in their stocking, and we can listen to uncle Paul have his discussion with uncle Eliezer when the whole family re-unites…

niplav yushtun, ta faret ne digal.

I found another bug in Range and Forecasting Accuracy inshallah.

Not horrible, but it's a deep one I will have to spend some time to fix ugh

Possible downside: she goes full r-word-mode and produces much more bullshit than can be answered, and makes the convo really adversarial. I doubt this would happen, though, a 2h podcast is not a talkshow, and Rob is really good at keeping things civil.

I think this might actually be a good idea?!

Shows willingness to give a loud signal to critics, but with gentle push back. Would encourage Gebru to actually read up on what EA *actually is* (she would do that, right?).
It would also satisfy my sadistic impulses towards Rob ;-)

If she refuses, make it known that she did, but in a mentioning way (accusing would be too obvious), which is almost as good as having her on. ("The critics won't talk to them directly!")

the russian tradition of kissing your comrade because you just survived something deeply traumatizing