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Orseau’s two new AGI papers: “Teleporting universal intelligent agents” and “A formal model for multiple, copiable AIs.” Bostrom’s new Superintelligence talk, accompanying his book. Lilienfeld et al –...
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“Approval-seeking“: Christiano’s latest post on indirect normativity for AGI. “Accuracy of forecasts in strategic intelligence” (in PNAS). Some long-term effective altruism advice by Nick Beckstead...
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An interview with Scott Frickel on intellectual movements. MIRI’s 2014 matching challenge pitch.
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Several decent, enjoyable books: Pennebaker’s The Secret Life of Pronouns Levy’s In the Plex Ellenberg’s How Not to Be Wrong Heller’s Ayn Rand and the World She Made Stone’s The Everything Store...
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Resolutions of mathematical conjectures over time. Peter McCluskey on Superintelligence and AI takeoff. Humor: Wrong Hands (visual puns). Michael Barr’s slides on the software defects which caused...
View ArticleLessons from Poor Economics
Poor Economics is the best book I’ve read on poverty reduction. The book ends with a summary of its key lessons. Here they are: As this book has shown, although we have no magic bullets to eradicate...
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Bensinger, Groundwork for AGI Safety Engineering. The Good Country Index. The Economist reviews Superintelligence. New from Tetlock et al., “Forecasting tournaments: tools for increasing transparency...
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Funny: An honest political ad for Gil Fulbright. Well-produced explanatory video on automation and technological unemployment. Not enough caveats, but of course it’s more engaging that way. Molyneux,...
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“Physical principles for scalable neural recording” maps the physical limits on brain activity mapping for several different methods. Potentially informative for whole brain emulation forecasting....
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GiveWell Labs has rebranded as the Open Philanthropy Project. Their finished analyses haven’t been moved there yet, though. Shulman, “Population ethics and inaccessible populations.” Christiano,...
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Aaronson, “Could a quantum computer have subjective experience?“ Against Empathy, a debate between Paul Bloom, Peter Singer, Sam Harris, Jesse Prinz, and others. Obstacles to self-driving cars.
View ArticleStuff I wrote elsewhere in August 2014
“Exploratory engineering in artificial intelligence” for Communications of the ACM (w/ Bill Hibbard) Two talks for the 2014 Effective Altruism Summit: “MIRI Intro” and “Steering the Future of AI.”
View ArticleBooks I finished reading in August 2014
Some decent books: Greenwald, No Place to Hide Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Levinson, The Box Bloom, Just Babies I also went through Gendlin’s Focusing and Cornell’s The Power of...
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Max Tegmark and Eliezer Yudkowsky on AI goal retention / ontological crises. Superintelligence is out in the USA, and in audiobook and Kindle formats. MIRI is hosting an online reading group for the...
View ArticleKey Lessons from Lobbying and Policy Change
Lobbying and Policy Change by Baumgartner et al. is the best book on policy change I’ve read. Hat tip to Holden Karnofsky for recommending this and also Poor Economics, the best book on global poverty...
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AI evaluation: past, present, and future. Google just got serious about building a quantum computer. (Martinis, not D-Wave.) Chalmers’ guidelines for constructive debate and discussion. I’ve been...
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The Center for Effective Altruism reports on outcomes from their 10+ meetings with UK policymakers so far. Pinker on Ivy League education (very good). A profile of Martine Rothblatt: “Futurist, pharma...
View ArticleComputer science writers wanted
My apologies in advance to the computer science journalists I haven’t found yet, but… Why is there so little good long-form computer science journalism? (Tech journalism doesn’t count.) When there’s an...
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Distinguishing Copenhagen and Many Worlds via experiment
Peter McCluskey pointed me to a nice explanation by Brian Greene of an experiment that could theoretically distinguish the Copenhagen and Many Worlds interpretations of quantum mechanics. This is from...
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Statistics prof Olle Häggström collects his blog posts about Superintelligence. “Governing cognitive biases: case studies of the use of… behaviorally informed policy tools.” Haidt & Tetlock &...
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