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Some thoughts below on free will. Suppose that there is an omnipotent being who is creating a universe from scratch. And the objective of the omnipotent being is that this universe will contain free will. In this universe, the omnipotent being can create any physical laws you…
I just finished “The Spy and the Traitor”, by Ben Macintyre. It is a true story about a KGB spy called Oleg Gordievsky who agrees to spy for MI6. John Le Carre called this book “The best true spy story I have ever read.” Oleg Gordievsky grew up in a KGB family in Russia.…
This is an excellent article by @DarioAmodei on ways in which AGI (which he calls “powerful AI”) would improve the world. Some of the theses about biology are quite interesting. darioamodei.com/machines-of-lo…
My take on the Israel / Iran war: How do wars end? Either through international pressure, or because one side’s economy is destroyed, and they give up. In this case I don’t see international pressure coming at least until January. Biden is too weak to try to secure a peace…
My take on this is: - It is too early to regulate foundation models. At the moment the risk of harm from AI models is too theoretical. - I am glad that Scott Weiner tried, as it starts the discussion of what AI regulation could look like, and the pros and cons. That discussion…
A decision on SB-1047 is due soon. Governor @GavinNewsom has said he's concerned about its "chilling effect, particularly in the open source community". He's right, and I hope he will veto this. If you agree, please like/retweet this to show your support for VETOing SB-1047!
I have read a few real life thrillers recently. These are non-fiction books, but they read like thrillers. It is a great genre. You get: - The unputdownability of a thrilling novel - The joy of learning about a part of the world that comes from non-fiction Some examples of…
I just finished a couple of books by Erik Larson about the World War 2 era: - “In The Garden Of Beasts” is about an American family living in Berlin during the 1930s, witnessing the rise of Nazism. - “The Splendid and the Vile” is about the life of Winston Churchill from the…
I recently read “Nuclear War: A Scenario” by Annie Jacobsen. The book creates a scenario of how global nuclear war might happen. The genre of the book is similar to historical fiction, except that it is “future fiction”: a fictionalized view of a possible scenario in the future.…
I recently finished The Escape Artist, by Jonathan Freedland. It is a biography of Rudi Vrba, one of the only people to have escaped Auschwitz. The book touches on Rudi’s: - upbringing in Slovakia - deportation to Auschwitz in June 1942 - experiences as a prisoner in…
A nice set of questions.
in AI interpretability research, what's the state of the art for decoding "thoughts": roughly, propositional representations (like the cat is on the mat or 7 is prime or lunch is at 1pm or there's a black tile on e4) that are active in a language model at a time? clarificatory…
Here is an idea for a video game: “How would YOU balance the national budget?” You can plug in your expected values for things like: - inflation - interest rate - tax rate - GDP growth - spending And then you can see what happens. Different schools of economics have…
One question around UFOs is: if there are UFO crashes, as the Pentagon whistleblower David Grusch said in Congressional testimony last year, why are the UFOs crashing? Why would an advanced civilization capable of interstellar flight experience crashes? A second question is: why…
Here is a question that I sometimes think about: Is the unconscious mind capable of advanced math (specifically, math that the conscious mind is not capable of doing)? Consider a knife thrower. A knife thrower has to know intuitively: - How far away he is from the target -…
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