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Also nicely excludes some things that are Not My Job™, such as choosing which person to align the AI to or what to do about people who instruct AIs to do Bad Things™

Then I can say "that's *not my job*, sorry. talk to the policy people"

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Started calling making any AI system try to do what any human wants my job

feels interesting

Were Neanderthals more intelligent than homo sapiens are today?

more math cults

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chugging the melatonin pills to keep my energy from making me explode

you might be thinking: “aha! so I should vote in elections, since even though under do()-calculus, the decision has a miniscule impact, there are many agents that are logically correlated with me, which means my influence is much higher!” A tiny problem is that the number of agents that are logically correlated because they base their decisions on logical correlation is, ah, not *that* big…

have there been any discontinuities in the domain of computer security?

still confused on whether variance can have variance

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violence, joke about maiming 

Call cutting someone's hand off disambidextration

pls no take seriously, unendorsed joke 

google 40 percent capabilities researchers

is the smallest rabbit species smaller than the biggest snail species?

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