GPerson

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by GPerson 1mo ago
It doesn’t matter what you wish if you are actively working towards causing others to fall into poverty on the idea that you and your family must become absurdly wealthy to survive.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
These all read like excuses for being a moral coward.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
1) This is not really a strong charge since it hasn’t been done anyway and I don’t think you really expect me to prove a negative. 2) I see no problem here. 3) What is the strongest argument? I’ll double check our thread but I have yet to f
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I have given my reasons. I will try again. You are fundamentally assuming all real concepts are reducible to arbitrary substrates like language. I believe there are real concepts which are not, like qualia. The entire premise of your belief
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I recognize you are probably just trying to win an argument, but what actually matters is that the ecosystem of human mathematics has produced strong results and can continue or not continue to do so depending on how we adapt to this new te
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by GPerson 1mo ago
This is not correct. The stated age of the universe is measured relative to the rest frame of the CMB, the standard preferred frame in cosmology. People working at AI labs like yourself should figure out how to stop destroying science so th
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by GPerson 1mo ago
Also I want to mention that the letter is not about AI skepticism, in any direct way at least.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I am not the relevant one with a position on this. I am referring to people who believe this but work at these companies (especially in capability research). I’m reacting to this > I also feel a need to amass retirement levels of wealth
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by GPerson 1mo ago
The website previously said, “What is the role of a mathematician when AI can solve conjectures faster?” but they have removed it, possibly as a result of the letter since it happened after.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I feel people who sell their souls to be in finance or work as corporate attorneys for bad companies deserve criticism, but people who sell their souls to work for an enterprise they themselves believe is at the very least going to destroy
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by GPerson 1mo ago
There is a very active open letter of over 1000 signatures from mathematicians in protest of this event. This event is targeting undergraduates. It previously suggested that math researchers already have no place in mathematics, and present
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by GPerson 1mo ago
> You already conceded that.. May apologies, but I intended to convey the opposite when I said this. I’ll read the rest of this comment later. > My position is that there must be something wrong with the idea that a behaviorally ident
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by GPerson 1mo ago
There were active labor movements and Social Security was a more moderate proposal than others; this was in the wake of the Great Depression after all. Labor movements played a role in it being considered.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
> Remember, in this situation we are not describing an LLM, but a system generated from the rules of chemistry However, it is a system with a representation purported to be a correct description of all the relevant rules of chemistry and
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I’ll just leave this comment to start a thread to ask you about your position and then figure out how I’d like to address your question later. Your position seems to have non-trivial difficulties if its own. I take it you don’t believe that
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I thought about how to respond to this for quite a while tonight (last night now as I fell asleep). My position is that there must be something wrong with the idea that a behaviorally identical simulation can be made which is not conscious.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I agree for most of the people in the story except Buckmaster himself seems to have been supplying real ideas.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
Oh whoops I replied above apologizing for my delay. I’m starting a new job and they’re threatening to make me do stuff (a great thing!!) But I will likely send my responses tonight.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
Sorry it’s been two days. I’ll try to remember where we left off and pick up later.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
You’re always going around insulting people. Does it make you feel powerful? Is it really hard to believe the people who would consume all the world’s data regardless of copyright and norms and permissions would not respect the data privacy
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I hope people recognize this account doom posts what amounts to misanthropic propaganda at a very high rate. There’s never any question how the comment is going to be framed. It’s always, “give up little humans, your robot overlords are her
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by GPerson 1mo ago
Do the downvoters of this comment have an alternative set of examples from history or do they just dislike this uncomfortable fact?
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by GPerson 1mo ago
This is true. Really what I had in mind was research in AI interpretability.
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by GPerson 1mo ago
Let me apologize for having to discontinue now, or my girlfriend will dump me for being more interested in talking to you than her tonight. Another time!
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by GPerson 1mo ago
> So you must believe that consciousness is entirely uncomputable? Do you have any other examples of physical processes that are beyond computation? I think all physical processes are distinct from their descriptions, and have a real exi
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by GPerson 1mo ago
> I understand that it troubles you that real computation can be done with marbles... but... it can. I don’t understand what you’re saying here. It doesn’t trouble me at all. I’m actually quite confident I could design a simple computer
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by GPerson 1mo ago
The reason I don’t pivot into AI safety (in a topic I might have comparative advantage in as a mathematician) is the following. (1) I believe increasing AI capability is a net negative. (2) AI capability is limited by AI safety in the way t
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by GPerson 1mo ago
> But according to solipsism you can't be sure my brain actually exists at all, right? Right but my belief is I live in a universe with regular processes depending on regular arrangements. It seems like a relatively weak axiom to
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by GPerson 1mo ago
This also seems likely. One problem I see with the idea of AI alignment is that it seems like many different actors will be able to get access to their own nearly-frontier models in a few years, so increased understanding of AI alignment wi
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by GPerson 1mo ago
I felt like the scaling laws were magical thinking, but apparently they work. However I still do not understand why we should expect exponential improvements due to this automated process. My intuition is that the first iteration of it shou

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