niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

Morality has been naughty, it's now grounded.

is your child writing about agent foundations?

• ffs: finite factored sets
• lmao: let's measure agency objectively
• idc: independently discovering corrigibility

“if enough of us listen to prophets of doom, it becomes self-fulfilling” — Leo Szilard

pressman being another taxxon fan is a delightful finding

found spicy khmer waltz; vexed quagga jacob (Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx)

oofed not in the absurdle word list, even though it's the reaction i have the most when playing it

spicy wheat found
qream, neither is warez
boxem, foofe, bouge, mozed, janus, jarns, ezafu, jokez, foqed, naxus, extra spicy bunns

bussy is not an absurdle word
neither is quarz

grebo is, tho (?!?!?!?)
and verry (⸘)
eagre
pleas

yea it's metaethics

but still!

i dislike the way most people deal with QRI stuff

sure, they're kind of out there, man, but i'd like it if people were critiquing individual points

e.g. my opinions

* stv is ~correct: 10%
* log scales of pain & pleasure is correct: 85%
* this has huge implications: 65%
* neural annealing is a good framework for the brain: 50%
* neural annealing is correct, in all of the aspects they say: 1% (come on! it's a *huge* conjunction!)
* tyranny of intentional object is right: 90%

Wake up babe new bostrom draft just dropped!

https://bit.ly/3QeSGyV

58340 minutes of meditation until now

Taxxon just casually drops a 1½ hour album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w6_D-jrt6s

it's a good day i might say

what *I* took away from it is that Searle doubts chinese people are conscious

wait, is CIRL incorrigible *for the same reason* that utility-maximizers don't wirehead?

https://niplav.github.io/notes.html#An-Example-for-Not-Updating-Uncertain-Utility-Functions

if your eag profile doesn't say 'neartermism', you'll automatically be drafted into the deepmind potential hires mailing list

“The problem with Marcus' argument is that the only alternative to statistical AI is spiritual AI“ no what the fuck why would you say this did you even read the sequences i don't even know where to start with that

holy fuck were ACX comments always this bad? most of them are fucking atrocious. like, barely tolerable.