Micaiah_Chang

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by Micaiah_Chang 3y ago
My wording is wrong, because it sounds like I'm saying that Bentham is adopting the policy ad hoc. A better way to state this is that Bentham starts out as an agent that does not give into brinksmanship type games, because a world wh
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by Micaiah_Chang 3y ago
Yes, the point of the GP comment is exactly this, if Bentham becomes an agent that goes for C, he also explicitly discourages the mugger from being an agent that would cut off their fingers for a couple of bucks. Notice that what Bentham
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by Micaiah_Chang 3y ago
Do we want to talk about a hypothetical world where deontology was the underlying moral principle? Where, for example, a large agency in charge of approving vaccines decided to delay approval of a life saving because, even though they recei
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by Micaiah_Chang 11y ago
I've been studying the language for a while, and recently made the switch to Japanese-Japanese dictionaries, after using EDICT for a long time. This has highlighted some reservations I have about it. The most available example (not the
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by Micaiah_Chang 11y ago
Maybe being shocked means that the person talking about the subject is misrepresenting it, because they themselves don't understand the arguments and are inadvertently projecting. For example, Ray Kurzweil would disagree about the dang
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
I agree with a lesser form (timescale on which the AI self improves is probably going to be long enough for humans to deal with it) of your first argument, but I'm confused at how, given 'merely' lots of compute capacity can
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
Have you ever read The Checklist Manifesto [0]? I may be reading too much into this post, but the lessons you learned from this interview process have frighteningly close parallels to the lessons in the books. I doubt the book had any infl
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
Even antivaxxers have people more patient and more understanding of their opponents actually debunking their object level thinking. They say that vaccines cause autism? We say that the original study was wrong! Why do you get to be even l
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
You seem to be implying that intentional slowing is MIRI's official stance, without any showing support. Given that the original response was in response to the specific accusation of "no AI experts say that this is a problem&quot
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
This seems as if it is conflating the worry that nuclear bombs would ignite the atmosphere with supersonic travel. Who predicted this?
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
I'm afraid of making a middlebrow dismissal but I'm going to post it anyway, in hopes that someone just skimming would not be mislead. The question is what Michael Jordan thinks of the "concept of the singularity", and t
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
> Honestly asking, why would they? I dont see the obvious answer So, your intuition is right in a sense and wrong in a sense. You are right in that AI systems probably won't really have the "emotion of wanting", why would
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
By 'upgrade everything from human secure' I meant that some targets aren't necessarily appealing to human targets but would be for AI targets. For example, for the vast majority of people, it's not worthwhile to hack med
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
The "more to it" is "if the AI is much faster at thinking than humans, then even humans in the observe/decide/act are not secure". AI systems having bugs also imply that protections placed on AI systems would a
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
A typical example, which I don't really like, is that once it gains some insight into biology that we don't have (a much faster way of figuring out how protein folding works). It can mail a letter to some lab, instructing a lab te
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
Er, sorry for giving the impression that it'd be a supervillain. My intention was to indicate that it'd be a weird intelligence, and that by default weird intelligences don't do what humans want. There are some other examples
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
Smart is just a shorthand for a complicated series of lower level actions consisting of domain knowledge, raw computational speed and other things yes. I don't think we're really disagreeing about this. However, I do worry that yo
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
Note: The not ELI5 version is Nick Bostrum's Superintelligence , a lot of what follows derives from my idiosyncratic understanding of Tim Urban's (waitbutwhy) summary of the situation [0]. I think his explanation is much better t
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
There are some skills in physics which are sort of foreign to the math method of problem solving. (Speaking as a physics major) For example, picking a nice reference frame in simple mechanics problems is something that a physical intuition
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
One approach that I learned was to use your fingers to underline the current line that you're reading, going at a "normal" speed when you're tired and then trying to "drag" your eyesight along when you want to
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
I'm currently having a failure of imagination here, but how would you social engineer a password manager? The tricks I'm thinking of involve fooling the user into thinking a site is something it's not or guessing some sort of
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
For those interested, guild wars is the game, and the process is covered below in the 'Your Computer is broken' section: http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/whose-bug-is-this-anyway HN Discussion: https:/&#
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by Micaiah_Chang 12y ago
I was also concerned about this issue, and have instead taken a nice medium path: After changing a password, I would try to log into the service at approximately the same intervals the Anki algorithm dictates until I feel the interval is lo