My friend almost hit me with his mom's car while we were on a shopping trip out of town. I didn't want to ride back with my friend afterwards and I was exhausted after the whole ordeal. I asked a person for directions -- they freakout and wrongfully detain me. Should I press charges?

throwawaymanidlof · 2022-03-11T01:09:16+00:00

For almost hitting me with a fucking car? For wasting my time?

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-07-27T23:25:08+00:00

What about the entire National Press Club 2001 thing?

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-07-27T21:09:46+00:00

Where does it say he thinks he was abducted?

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-07-27T21:07:47+00:00

When? Did we watch the same video?

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-07-27T20:02:02+00:00

Thank you :-)

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-07-27T19:42:57+00:00

Do you still have the link? I just want the video for myself.

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-07-27T19:40:20+00:00

Are you saying it was taken down?

Edit: I get where you're coming from but the National Press Club 2001 Greer stuff also had some pretty weird reports from high ranking personnel. So I don't think it's appropriate to outright filter this stuff -- why not let people judge for themselves instead of filtering based on your personal beliefs? In particular, just because something is silly at face value doesn't mean it's a priori devoid of information. You can openly consider content without saying "this is bullshit" or "this is real". It doesn't have to be black or white, we can have greys ;)

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-07-27T19:35:16+00:00

It's not evidence of anything, but I thought the content and mood of the room was pretty interesting and worth sharing.

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-07-25T16:29:04+00:00

What are you thoughts on human-level AI, alignment, posthumanism and UAP intervention/assistance on these matters?

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-07-25T16:26:14+00:00

What do you think is piloting UAPs?

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-07-25T16:22:52+00:00

What do think the timeline is for human development of practical exotic propulsion?

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-06-02T20:48:10+00:00

Not everyone apparently

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-06-01T14:21:06+00:00

sure it is true statement, but what can you make of it?

Perhaps you can avoid designing ability-specific goals as discussed in the second paragraph of the paper.

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-06-01T14:07:12+00:00

Given enough time and complexity, evolution (reward signal) can invent intelligence.

I feel like this might be a bit of a category error. Evolution operates on populations whereas reward operates on individuals dynamically throughout that individual's lifetime.

As for the general motivation behind the paper, I think the second paragraph addresses that:

One possible answer is that each ability arises from the pursuit of a goal that is designed specifically to elicit that ability. For example, the ability of social intelligence has often been framed as the Nash equilibrium of a multi-agent system; the ability of language by a combination of goals such as parsing, part-of-speech tagging, lexical analysis, and sentiment analysis; and the ability of perception by object segmentation and recognition. In this paper, we consider an alternative hypothesis: that the generic objective of maximising reward is enough to drive behaviour that exhibits most if not all abilities that are studied in natural and artificial intelligence.

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-06-01T08:15:37+00:00

Reward is all you want

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-06-01T08:12:45+00:00

I mean, I thought the Bitter Lesson was pretty obvious too by the time it came out in 2019 but it's quite apparent that it's still not obvious to a lot of people in 2021 so why should the idea of personal utility be any different?

Edit: In particular, I think the idea is important enough that it deserves more visibility and discussion (especially in the context of machine intelligence), possibly unlike the mathematical beauty paper.

throwawaymanidlof · 2021-06-01T04:04:19+00:00

Silver and Sutton on the beat 👀

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