FHI shared an office with the Institute for Effective Altruism, which is not a terribly popular movement since SBF
The EA association combined with off-and-on attention to some old racist-appearing comments Nick made online years ago, could perhaps have contributed to FHI's alienation from the Oxford bureaucracy CSER at Cambridge has essentially the same mission/theme but is run more-so by UK academic establishment so runs little risk of cancellation... -- Ben On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 12:35 PM James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Last year it was reported Bostrom said "nigger" in 1998 or thereabouts. > https://youtu.be/Lu_i042oaNg > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 9:00 AM James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Oh, and let's not forget the FHI itself! When I approached one of its >> geniuses during the covid pandemic about setting up something like a Hutter >> Prize except using epidemiological data, he insisted on empirical testing of >> the efficacy of the Algorithmic Information Criterion. That sounds great if >> you are utterly incapable of rational thought. >> >> On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 8:54 AM James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> A book title I've considered: >>> >>> "The Unfriendly AGI: How and Why The Global Economy Castrates Our Sons" >>> >>> Yudowsky is basically a tool of The Unfriendly AGI. LessWrong spearheaded >>> the sophistic attacks on The Hutter Prize. Why? So that there is no >>> recognition of the Algorithmic Information Criterion in the social >>> sciences. If anything remotely like a Hutter Prize were to take root in >>> the social sciences, the TFR disaster being visited on the planet would be >>> over in very short order. >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 10:13 PM Matt Mahoney <mattmahone...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Here is an early (2002) experiment described on SL4 (precursor to >>>> Overcoming Bias and Lesswrong) on whether an unfriendly self improving AI >>>> could convince humans to let it escape from a box onto the internet. >>>> http://sl4.org/archive/0207/4935.html >>>> >>>> This is how actual science is done on AI safety. The results showed that >>>> attempts to contain it would be hopeless. Almost everyone let the (role >>>> played) AI escape. >>>> >>>> Of course the idea that a goal directed, self improving AI could even be >>>> developed in isolation from the internet seems hopelessly naïve in >>>> hindsight. Eliezer Yudkowsky, who I still regard as brilliant, was young >>>> and firmly believe that the unfriendly AI (now called alignment) problem >>>> could be and must be solved before it kills everyone, like it was a really >>>> hard math problem. Now, after decades of effort it seems he has given up >>>> hope. He organized communities of rationalists (Singularity Institute, >>>> later MIRI), attempted to formally define human goals (coherent >>>> extrapolated volition), timeless decision theory and information hazards >>>> (Roko's Basilisk), but to no avail. >>>> >>>> Vernor Vinge described the Singularity as an event horizon on the future. >>>> It cannot be predicted. The best we can do is extrapolate long term trends >>>> like Moore's law, increasing quality of life, life expectancy, and >>>> economic growth. But who forecast the Internet, social media, social >>>> isolation, and population collapse? What are we missing now? > > Artificial General Intelligence List / AGI / see discussions + participants + > delivery options Permalink -- Ben Goertzel, PhD b...@goertzel.org "One must have chaos in one's heart to give birth to a dancing star" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Te0da187fd19737a7-M65cfae2d16e21ae8f460a758 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
