How can we make many humans who are very good at solving difficult problems?| .
I gave a talk on 20 Feb 2024 in the PIBBSS speaker series. It's a talk version of "A hermeneutic net for agency". | .
Exploring the ruins of an alien civilization, you find what appears to be a working computer——it's made of plastic and metal, wires connect it to various devices, and you see arrays of capacitors that maintain charged or uncharged states and that sometimes rapidly toggle in response to voltages from connected wires. You can tell that the presumptive RAM is activating in complex but structured patterns, but you don't know their meanings. What strategies can you use to come to understand wh...| .
[Caveat lector: I know roughly nothing about policy!]| .
Some argue that the natural way for a strong mind to form is by a group of smaller agents agreeing to ongoingly create new agents to trade with. Are there underlying premises about the nature of agents that would render valid some version of this argument?| .
A hermeneutic net for agency is a natural method to try, to solve a bunch of philosophical difficulties relatively quickly. Not to say that it would work. It's just the obvious thing to try.| .
We have pretheoretic ideas of wanting that come from our familiarity with human wanting, in its variety. To see what way of wanting can hold sway in a strong and strongly growing mind, we have to explicate these ideas, and create new ideas. | .
Summary: AGI isn't super likely to come super soon. People should be working on stuff that saves humanity in worlds where AGI comes in 20 or 50 years, in addition to stuff that saves humanity in worlds where AGI comes in the next 10 years. | .
Time is the character of courses of events in which determinations——the ways that one event determines the next——are uniform across events and across composing determinations.| .
To come to know that a mind will have some specified ultimate effect on the world, first come to know, narrowly and in full, what about the mind makes it have effects on the world.| .
1. Regime change Conjecture: when there is regime change, the default outcome is for a faction to take over——whichever faction is best prep...| tsvibt.blogspot.com
A mind has some effects on the world. What determines which effects a mind has? To eventually create minds that have large effects that we s...| tsvibt.blogspot.com
Explicitness is out-foldedness. An element of a mind is explicit when it is available to relate to other elements when suitable.| tsvibt.blogspot.com
A very strong mind is produced by a trajectory of creativity. A trajectory of creativity that produces a very strong mind is hard to separat...| tsvibt.blogspot.com