Filip Sondej

• Filip SondejAug 12, 2024, 1:39 PM

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  in reply to: Jim Buhler’s comment on: The Grabby Values Selec­tion Th­e­sis: What val­ues do space-far­ing civ­i­liza­tions plau­si­bly have?

  (The links you sent are broken)

• Filip SondejJul 30, 2024, 6:34 PM

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  on: The Grabby Values Selec­tion Th­e­sis: What val­ues do space-far­ing civ­i­liza­tions plau­si­bly have?

  My main crux regarding inter-civ selection effect is how fast will space colonization get. F.e. if it’s possible to produce small black holes, you can use them for an incredibly efficient propulsion and even just slightly grabby civs still spread at approximately the speed of light—roughly the same speed as extremely grabby civs. Maybe it’s also possible with fusion propulsion but I’m not sure—you’d need to ask astro nerds.

  values aligned with a (potentially discoverable?) moral truth will be more competitive than those that are the most grabbing-prone

  I guess the main hope is not that morality gives you a competitive edge (that’s unlikely) but rather that enough agents stumble on it anyway, f.e. realizing open/​empty individualism is true, through philosophical reflection.

  agents with values that might a priori seem less grabbing-prone could still prioritize colonizing space, as a first step, to not fall behind in the race against other agents (aliens or other agents within their civilization), and actually optimize for their values later, such that there is little selection effect

  Yeah, I definitely expect that.

• Filip SondejApr 8, 2024, 11:30 AM

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  on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Expose “voting tribes” in the comments.

  We could run a similar algorithm to X’s Community Notes. Then, on contentious topics, we could easily see the main axis of disagreement. We could also have a comment sorting option, that upranks those upvoted by people from both sides of the disagreement.

  See this thread for discussion and corresponding post for algorithm description.

• Filip SondejAug 23, 2023, 5:52 PM

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  in reply to: FlorianH’s comment on: New co­op­er­a­tion mechanism—quadratic fund­ing with­out a match­ing pool

  I would not say my original version of Mutual Matching is in every sense more general.

  Ok, I think you’re right, it’s not strictly more general.

  QF mainly deserves a name of information eliciting … as … asymptotically all money has to come from the central funder if there are many ‘small’ donors

  Agreed!

  ability to set (or know) her monotonously increasing contribution directly as a function of the leverage, which I think is really is a core criterion for an effective ‘leverage increasing’

  Yeah, that is a crucial component, but I think we need not only that, but also some natural way in which the donation saturates. Because when you keep funding some project, at some point the marginal utility from further funding decreases. (I’m not sure how original Mutual Matching deals with that.) I think Andrew Critch’s S-process deals with that very elegantly, and it would be nice to take inspiration from it. (In my method here, the individual donations saturate into some maximal personal limit, which I think is nice, but is not quite the same as the full project pot saturating.)

• Filip SondejAug 23, 2023, 11:01 AM

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  in reply to: FlorianH’s comment on: New co­op­er­a­tion mechanism—quadratic fund­ing with­out a match­ing pool

  Oh yeah! They are identical in spirit, but a bit different in implementation. So they will have different results sometimes.

  It would be nice to test both of them in some real world setting.

  Edit: it seems that your method is more general? And that maybe you could set the curves in a way that the matching works the same as described here. So the method in this post maybe could be seen as a specific case of Mutual Matching, aiming to have some particular nice properties.

Boomerang—pro­to­col to dis­solve some com­mit­ment races

• Filip SondejNov 4, 2022, 2:27 PM

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  in reply to: Ariel’s comment on: Mind is uncountable

  I tend to think that qualia are bound together when they causally act as one. So if left and right are highly integrated (act as one), they aren’t separate experiences. So here I agree with IIT.

  Ah, this story is great. In general Egan’s stuff is awesome. If I remember correctly the story was more about personhood (the memories and dispositions etc.) rather than separate experiences (which would require some processes to run separately in parallel). I think it’s an important distinction to make, as experience is fundamentally real, while personhood (or “continuous self”) is more of a thing we assign to systems—a useful fiction (just like money, or democracy is a useful fiction).

  There is also a feeling of being yourself, but that’s a different thing than pure experience, and different than assigned personhood. For example there are cases (meditation and psychedelic trips) when the feeling of being someone disappears, but experience remains.

  I like that soul swapping argument :D

  In the case of split brain, both of the experiences would feel to be me.

• Filip SondejNov 4, 2022, 1:37 PM

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  in reply to: Emrik’s comment on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Ah, no, I just read the report of results on Wikipedia (that’s how they worded it). Hm, it’s strange if that’s not in the paper.

Mind is uncountable

• Filip SondejNov 1, 2022, 11:56 AM

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  in reply to: Sharang Phadke’s comment on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  I don’t suspect it to be that bad. More like some noise added to each post’s score, and some posts not getting enough attention because of that.

  In the reddit experiment single upvotes caused posts to have 25% higher mean score later (this effect was present in all parts of the distribution).

  But the effect size was very dependent on the topic, so I’m curious how would that turn out for EA Forum.

• Filip SondejNov 1, 2022, 11:33 AM

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  in reply to: Sharang Phadke’s comment on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Yeah, good point. It may be mostly redundant.

• Filip SondejNov 1, 2022, 11:30 AM

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  in reply to: Sharang Phadke’s comment on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Oh great! I didn’t know about some of them.

  Still, the main thing I had in mind was to embed some custom interactive stuff.

  Implementing it as iframe support, would be the most general, and you would solve all the possible “embed X” suggestions at once. So it seams to be the most efficient approach.

• Filip SondejOct 29, 2022, 12:33 PM

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  on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Embed iframes

  Some use cases:

  • interactive visualizations

  • videos

  • airtables (as already suggested)

  • polis questions (as already suggested)

  • guesstimate models

  • and many many more

  This feature is very versatile and would solve many things at once.

• Filip SondejOct 28, 2022, 8:31 PM

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  in reply to: Emrik’s comment on: Sort fo­rum posts by: Oc­clu­mency (Old & Upvoted)

  Great!

  I posted it in that thread: link

  Feel free to add something there.

• Filip SondejOct 28, 2022, 8:27 PM

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  on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Check if information cascades /​ social influence bias is a problem on EA Forum.

  If it is, maybe we could implement Emrik’s idea to counter it, or some similar mechanism.

  See here for the explanation of the potential problem.

  To test it, we could do an experiment where some bot (or server-side process) randomly upvotes or downvotes new posts. We measure final karma after some fixed time, and see if that single vote snowballed.

  relevant discussion

  What links here?

  • Filip Sondej's comment on Sort fo­rum posts by: Oc­clu­mency (Old & Upvoted) by Emrik (Oct 28, 2022, 8:31 PM; 3 points)

• Filip SondejOct 28, 2022, 5:00 PM

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  on: Sort fo­rum posts by: Oc­clu­mency (Old & Upvoted)

  I like that idea about information cascades. We could test how big this effect is on EA Forum, by having some bot who randomly upvotes or downvotes new posts, and measuring the final karma after some time.

  There was a similar experiment with reddit (maybe you already know this).

  The accumulating herding effect increased the comment’s mean rating by 25% compared to the control group comments (Figure 1C). Positively manipulated comments did receive higher ratings at all parts of the distribution, which means that they were also more likely to collect extremely high scores.

  effect was present in the “politics,” “culture and society,” and “business” subreddits, but was not applicable for “economics,” “IT,” “fun,” and “general news”

  Why do you think information cascades aren’t significant on EA Forum? (I hope that’s true)

  What links here?

  • Filip Sondej's comment on EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread by Aaron Gertler 🔸 (Oct 28, 2022, 8:27 PM; 7 points)

• Filip SondejOct 28, 2022, 3:49 PM

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  on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Recommend posts using collaborative filtering (“people who like the same posts as you, also like:”)

  MVP could be done quite easily using some of these techniques.

  I have some ideas how to do better. If you consider implementing this feature, hit me up to talk!

• Filip SondejOct 28, 2022, 3:39 PM

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  on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  In-line commenting.

  Invisible by default so they don’t distract, but you can easily switch visibility.

  So the reader particularly interested in some section could dive into the comments particularly about that section.

  Also, as a further feature, you could color code different comment types, like:

  • blue (default): just a comment

  • yellow: fix suggestion

  • brown: link to previous discussion /​ relevant resources

  • red: critique ?

  Also see @Emrik’s comment with more rationale.

  What links here?

  • Filip Sondej's comment on New tool for ex­plor­ing EA Fo­rum and LessWrong—Tree of Tags by Filip Sondej (Oct 28, 2022, 1:09 PM; 1 point)

• Filip SondejOct 28, 2022, 3:25 PM

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  on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Bookmark folders.

  There should still be the default one, but if you choose you could put the post in some other folder (sorta like youtube does with saving videos to playlists).

  It can have many use cases, like:

  • prioritizing things to read

  • topic specific folders

  • maybe even curation, if you could also make those folders public

  Right now I’m doing something along these lines, but with an external editor and lists of links, so it’s a bit awkward to use.

• Filip SondejOct 28, 2022, 1:57 PM

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  on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  An optional reading time indicator, like here: working example (and that tool’s description).

  The bar at the right of each post is the reading time indicator. Full bar means 30 min, half bar means 15 min, and so on.

  You can find the code that implements that bar here: html, css

  The post length is often the deciding factor in whether I want to read something, so it’s nice to have it at a glance. Also I admit I kinda want to incentivize people to write more concise posts :)