Figure 1 The open-source AI scene has been kicking goals. People have wrestled models, datasets, and all the fixings away from the big-wigs. The final boss of that game is the access to expensive compute. Training a foundation model from scratch takes a warehouse full of GPUs that costs more than a small nation’s GDP. It’s been the one thing keeping AI development firmly in the hands of a few tech giants with cash to burn. Until now, maybe. So, the citizen science equivalent for the NN a...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
Figure 1: And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, put fire in it, added incense, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. Then fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. Lev 10:1-2 Notes on committing to things, and the implications of that for cooperation. Relevant to multi-agent causality where agents make decisions, in the context of iterated games in multi-agent systems with applications to AI safe...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
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Figure 1 Notebook on the idea of human domestication. Possibly the opposite of being stroppy. Paul Christiano, What failure looks like Amongst the broader population, many folk already have a vague picture of the overall trajectory of the world and a vague sense that something has gone wrong. There may be significant populist pushes for reform, but in general these won’t be well-directed. Some states may really put on the brakes, but they will rapidly fall behind economically and militaril...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
Placeholder. On the difficulty of reasoning with the stranger in the future who we will become. Subjective continuity, procrastination, murder Gandhi, intertemporal decisions. 1 Self-continuity over time TBC 2 Transformative experiences Figure 1 Humans can be subject to radical changes (e.g. mind annealing). This makes apparent the difficulties for us reasoning now about the well-being of the very different being we will become. Transformative experiences (L. A. Paul) is a great introductio...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises