“When they ask me about truth, I say, truth in which axiomatic system?” Teukros Michailides
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Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery—AI Safety Camp
[Question] Book recommendations for the history of ML?
Why I think that teaching philosophy is high impact
I know what you mean and I’ve definitely had this kind of experience (and in particular, last semester which led me to want to leave both my university and academia—that’s how bad it was). What I wanted to emphasize while teaching is that it’s valuable to question our own thoughts, emotions, and experiences in the philosophy classroom, and it’s disappointing to see that most people are not willing to do that. But hey, at least I tried...
A quick comment after reading about 50% of this article: it seems to focus on statements instead of arguments, e.g. “we cannot calculate the probability of future events as if people didn’t exist.” or “We are after genuine creativity, not the illusion of creativity.”At the same time, it doesn’t really engage with the literature on AI risk or even explain why the definitions adopted e.g. the knowledge definition, are the most appropriate ones. There might be some interesting thoughts in there, but it’d be better for the author to develop them in shorter articles and make the arguments more clear.
I’ve been asked this question! Or, to be specific, I’ve been asked something along these lines: human cultures have always been speculating about the end of the world so how is this forecasting x-risk any different?
Cognitive science and failed AI forecasts
My summary of “Pragmatic AI Safety”
Against the weirdness heuristic
Both Redwood and Anthropic have labs and do empirical work. This is also an example of experimental work: https://twitter.com/Karolis_Ram/status/1540301041769529346
There is no royal road to alignment
I don’t think it’s restricted only to agentic technologies; my model is for all technologies that involve risk. My toy example is that even producing a knife requires the designer to think about its dangers in advance and propose precautions.
Why bother with New Year’s resolutions when you can just start doing things today (and every today)?