drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
Michael Nielsen offers an excellent essay on "artificial superintelligence (ASI)" and the question of its "alignment" with human values: [I]t is intrinsically desirable to build powerful truthseeking ASIs, because of the immense benefits helpful truths bring to humanity. The price is that such systems will inevitably uncover closely-adjacent dangerous truths. Deep understanding of reality is intrinsically dual use. ASIs which speed up science and technology will act as a supercharger, perhaps...| drafts — interfluidity
President Trump made the following remark this weekend: We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China. Now we’re essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we’re saving hundreds of billions of dollars. Very simple. This claim has been widely mocked, because most of us understand that "buying stuff" and "losing money" are not the same thing. The hundreds of billions of dollars Trump says we were "losing" to China refers to our bilateral trade deficit with that countr...| drafts — interfluidity
Talking trade, I find people I speak to like that I'm willing to call out the Trump administration as idiotic for trying to bring every bilateral trade relationship into balance. But, sotto voce, my interlocutors often don't quite get how I can strongly favor a norm of balanced trade while mocking attempts to balance individual trade relationships. Isn't any country's overall trade deficit or surplus the sum of its "bilateral" balances with individual trade partners? Yes it is! So if we want ...| drafts — interfluidity
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com
drafts @ interfluidity| drafts.interfluidity.com