niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

ok but hear me out

one hundred billion dollars into mechanistic interpretability

Once 50% of all knowledge-work has been automated, how long in expectation until 90%+ of all work has been automated?

from http://www.brautigan.net/machines.html

I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.

I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.

I like to think
(right now please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.

The Amish should be able to continue doing whatever they're doing

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if economic growth continued at 1% a year, for 10k years, would that be good or bad from the position of ants in 10k years?

law of one player: nothing happens unless you (yes, you specifically) make it happen

common theme rn in alignment research is how value evolve, e.g. concept/value extrapolation, shard theory

if you're german then the term "gaslighting" is slightly queasy

can you money-pump the agents simulated by large language models?

give standard vNM coherence violating scenarios to smarter language models

at higher levels of intelligence, maintaining coherence becomes more difficult since your action space widens and having high coherence might be NP-hard. so the better metric is coherence divided by size of action space

your mom is the optimization target

love languages as multi-armed bandits