Eliezer YudkowskyVerified account

@ESYudkowsky

Ours is the era of inadequate AI alignment theory. Any other facts about this era are relatively unimportant, but sometimes I tweet about them anyway.

Joined June 2014

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    Safely aligning a powerful AGI is difficult.

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  2. setting concept: in a fantasy world, the one god who’s an okay person is “worshipped” by all the complete bastards because that god never sends anyone to hell

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  3. If by life or by death I can save you, I will, but you can't make me do it with dignity.

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    Jan 31

    The fact that I do regard states as essentially telcos rather than sacred homelands clearly shows what side I am on.

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    Jan 31

    "We found no support for any detrimental effects of cognitive ability and no evidence for a threshold beyond which greater scores cease to be beneficial. Thus, greater cognitive ability is generally advantageous—and virtually never detrimental."

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    Jan 29
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    Jan 29

    Can’t buy love but you can find a market clearing price for domestic tranquillity

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  10. Everyone gets charged to use the floor. A libertarian partner tells you what the price *is*. It's just like "minimum wages" - a free labor market equilibrates supply and demand using money, an unfree one balances via illegible payments like job search times and vicious bosses.

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  11. This but unironically! I'd vastly rather be quoted a Happy Price to use the floor, than have to be quietly afraid all the time of whether I'm spending down social capital and emotional energy without realizing it.

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    Jan 27

    New: leaked documents, data, contracts show how hugely popular antivirus Avast now harvests internet browsing data and sells it for millions of dollars. Clients included Home Depot, Google, Microsoft. Documents show a product called "All Clicks Feed"

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    Jan 27

    Bad news for meta-analyses: Comparing 15 meta-analyses to multi-lab replication attempts of the same effects, on average, meta-analytic effect sizes are almost three times as large as replication effect sizes.

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  14. You couldn't walk through the streets of a non-market authoritarian craphole and figure out whether it was a "fascist" craphole or "socialist" craphole without asking by name.

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    "'over 14% of sex workers said that they had been threatened with arrest unless they had sex with a police officer, and 2% had been arrested after having sex with an officer anyway.' In many US states, it is technically legal"

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    Jan 24
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    Imagine how much better these behavioral genetics Twitter debates with like Eric Turkheimer would be with these memes!

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  17. There's also no apparent way to delete the trial account, at least from the app I'm using. Sweet.

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  18. (I'm glad I didn't enter any actual passwords before finding this out.)

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  19. Warning: giving an email address to LastPass (a password manager) will subject you to daily spam emails with no functioning unsubscribe.

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    Jan 24

    I am ceasing intellectual discussions on social media until March 1, 2021. I will continue blogging and promoting my own work, but will not engage until then. Here's why:

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    Jan 23

    I just wrote about a technique that saved me from making a $100,000 mistake. Of the 3000 interviews I did at ZeroCater, this one was the strangest.

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