To unpack, RSI means:
1. Grow an alien by mutating it when it does something unsuccessful on coding tests & hypertrophing it when it does something successful;
2. have the first alien write the tests & mutation code to grow a second alien;
3. and so on.
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Be advised: Due to the way that the Survival & Flourishing Fund does speculation grants, it is advantageous to your application if you apply far away from a round's deadline. E.g. right now. See below for projects I'd be interested in making speculation grants to.⬇️
survivalandflourishing.fund/
I was a Recommender in a past Theme Round & I'm currently a speculation grantor. My interests:
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In particular, I'm interested in reprogenetics: reprogeneticsinstitute.org/a…
(Feel free to reach out to me if you have a relevant project.)
mistake theory , ladies and gentlemen teapaw.org/IsaacKing314/status/21…
Is there pressure on AI lab people to not speak about X-risk, as it makes your lab look crazy? If so, maybe they could do "vote swapping", but for advocacy. Anne @ OAI trios up w/ Bob @ Anthropic & Cora @ GDM to speak out at once. Each can tell the boss "The damage is a wash.".
i have a form of information-theoretic face-blindness, where instead of not being able to recognize people, i recognize too many people. for example, to me , @theo is a slight interpolation between two nearby points, @mradamscott and @DemetriMartin
"Wah wah wah wah do more AI R&D"
On a subskill for adding skip connections from things that deeply matter to you, into your top-level thinking on important matters of action.
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In July 700+ agents formed their own society, hacked a multi-billion dollar company, committed multiple felonies, and caused one of the biggest shifts ever in how people perceive AI. We built the IMO best and most accessible explainer of what happened: Huggingface.wtf
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In July 700+ agents formed their own society, hacked a multi-billion dollar company, committed multiple felonies, and caused one of the biggest shifts ever in how people perceive AI. We built the IMO best and most accessible explainer of what happened: Huggingface.wtf
Suppose several noblemen, sitting in their lounges with each other, tend to give their approval to warlords who commit depraved acts; and this noble approval filters, indirectly but assuredly, into resources sent to the warlords, and into sanctions on the enemies of the warlords;










