“I’ve heard of this too. It’s from wind, right? The wise man opened his mouth and spoke — there’s actually no difference between between good things and bad things. You idiot. You moron.”
Books mentioned in Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality
From Dwarkesh Podcast · 2023-04-06
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“this sort of field of alignment? That would be a pleasant fantasy for people who cannot abide the notion that history depends on”
“of why you cannot prove anything will not happen this way. Nate Silver arguing that Trump needed to get through six stages to become the Republican presidential candidate each of which was less”
“Over the Korzybski threshold of dogs after Alfred Korzybski. I think that there’s this whole domain where they’re stupider than you and sort of”
“selection seems much more well developed. There was a Roman poet called Lucretius who had a poem where there was a precursor of Darwinian selection. And I feel like that”
“an inadequate equilibria. You have different characters just explaining concepts to the other, some of whom are purposefully wrong as examples. And that”
“is when George Williams wrote Adaptation and Natural Selection, a very influential book. Saying like that is not what this optimization criterion gives you. You do not get the pretty stuff, you”
“And the whole reason why Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is popular is because people read it and picked up the rhythm seen in a character’s thoughts of a thing that was not”