My Ph.D. thesis was accepted Nov 29, 2023. This year I felt inspired by some prolific scholars whose published content is, imo, less rigorous than…
Two weeks ago, I attended the Beneficial AGI Summit & Unconference in Panama City, which aimed to shift the discussion around the impact of AGI…
The AI Control Problem is the task of controlling what an AI system will do and its outcomes, especially in the case of self-improving superintelligent…
With the advent of proto-AGI systems and accelerating progress, many a folk appear to be freaking out at the lack of guarantees AGI will roll…
Let’s start with the concept of an invariant, that which doesn’t change, which appears in mathematics, the analysis of programming loops, physics, and linguistics. Now…
The first edition was quite long, so this time, I’m going to write as I go. It turns out that writing as I go becomes…
Preamble In Virtue Ethics Qua Learning Theory, I fleshed out the basic ethical principles, paradigms, and considerations in connection with (reinforcement) learning theory. My definition…
(Disclaimer: I am not a super genius or expert in physicsor computer theory. Feel free to correct any naive errors.) The Simulation Hypothesis [1] sets…
I had a kinda cool start to a novel and then plunged it into nonsense and, err, didn’t finish it. Did I watch more than…
First, I have come to realize that I was wrong about Dictator Bob’s Valuism. I still hold that it provides a clear framework (obviously consequentialist…