I’m sorry, but I consider myself EA-adjacent-adjacent.
Aayush Kucheria
[Question] Money vs Talent: Putting numbers on the tradeoff?
I’m surprised why this post is being downvoted. It takes a controversial topic but seems to talk reasonably through it?
(For those downvoting, maybe mention your reasons?)
ML Summer Bootcamp Reflection: Aalto EA Finland
Awesome stuff! Have you increased the maximum limit of participants yet? (Asking before sending this to my community group in case it creates problems)
I second this! Initially I was of the opinion that it wouldn’t be helpful to me, but the advisor pointed out a few things I was missing which led me to significantly change my plans :)
Very excited for this!
Love this post!
Maybe a typo: the second AI (EA) should be AI (Work)?
AI (EA) did not have to care about mundane problems such as “availability of relevant training data” or even “algorithms”: the only limit ever discussed was amount of computation, and that’s why AI (EA) was not there yet, but soon would be, when systems would have enough computational power to simulate human brains.
Btw, really like your writing style! :)
At least in my case, they asked me to reach out directly in the future if I wanted further help. I have the impression that they’re trying to help us in the long-term, and not as a one-off favour.
(Would be curious if anybody else has had a different experience!)
It’s interesting how listening to the people who are present is the default approach but not the optimal one. So we need to go against the grain to listen to those who are not present as well.
Another counterintuitive concept I came across on this forum. Thanks for writing this post!
My initial answer was yes. But now that I think about it, all my EA connections have happened off-forum. Mostly on slack, email, and Facebook. Which I feel is kinda weird 🤔
This looks like an experiment worth trying out on scale. Will sign up for the team when you start the process!
Good luck!
I’m thinking of organizing an unofficial version of this in Finland. So this would be nice for sure :)
That makes sense!
Thanks for posting this, was quite interesting!
I have one question if you don’t mind. The disadvantages you pose for lithium-ion batteries (capacity) and electrolysis with hydrogen (inefficiency) - are they problems that are inherent to the processes or can they potentially be solved?
Here’s Bostrom’s letter about it (along with the email) for context: https://nickbostrom.com/oldemail.pdf