Join Notes
A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
Now, as far as their personal ideals are concerned, I recall him saying that the highest personal ideal one can have is the ideal of freedom, namely the attempt for everyone to become a free, moral and spiritual personality, to the maximum possible degree.
Chronicles From the Future
Paul Amadeus Dienach and Achilleas Sirigos
As we go down the list, the proposals get fancier and add more bells and whistles, trying to make the AI a better expert. Sadly, none of them at all address what I expect to be the actual main bottleneck: The Client (i.e. the human user or users) has no understanding of what they need, what questions to ask, what’s possible or even logically coherent, etc.
Why Not Just Outsource Alignment Research to an AI?
johnswentworth
Note that after the event you start predicting the possibility of other outliers happening locally, that is, in the process you were just surprised by, but not elsewhere.
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
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