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Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo

studying AI and trust. ex @openai/@googledeepmind mindthefuture.info San Francisco, CA Joined October 2009
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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en

3 days ago

Regular reminder that the CEO of Pfizer delayed the release of a life-saving vaccine to swing an election for his preferred candidate which is the most horrifying comicbook villain shit imaginable but he will get away with it because the right is retarded and getting…

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

10 months ago

Regular reminder that the CEO of Pfizer delayed the release of a life-saving vaccine to swing an election for his preferred candidate which is the most horrifying comicbook villain shit imaginable but he will get away with it because the right is retarded and getting…

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Alex Imas @alexolegimas

6 days ago

I’m not sure about 1, but 2 is absolutely correct. @R_Thaler and I wrote a book arguing at length (with a lot of evidence) that independence axiom just completely doesn’t hold. We’ve known this for 40 years. But EUT still go-to model because status quo.

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Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo

6 days ago

I’m not sure about 1, but 2 is absolutely correct. @R_Thaler and I wrote a book arguing at length (with a lot of evidence) that independence axiom just completely doesn’t hold. We’ve known this for 40 years. But EUT still go-to model because status quo.

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Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo

7 days ago

Are there any good ways to formalize the difference between prestige and dominance hierarchies? In exchange I offer the following passage on chimpanzee dominance and submission behaviors for your perusal.

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David Duvenaud @DavidDuvenaud

a week ago

The second keynote was @RichardMCNgo on “Flourishing in a highly unequal world”. He argued that future beings will vary greatly in power and intelligence, so we should aim for “healthy asymmetric" relations, analogous to that between parent and child. youtube.com/watch?v=fqrLRs…

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michael vassar @HiFromMichaelV

a week ago

It was also a way to create a permanent state of exception and preserve the military mobilization of the Second World War until the prior way of life was forgotten and the new elite had become permanent one.

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Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1

a week ago

It was also a way to create a permanent state of exception and preserve the military mobilization of the Second World War until the prior way of life was forgotten and the new elite had become permanent one.

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Zachary Charles @MatharyCharles

a week ago

Today's reading: In effect, re-interprets the outer optimization step in DiLoCo / FedOpt as a form of batched model ensembling, and uses this to define a multi-step iterative version. This can be used for data-free model ensembling in basically any context.

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daren @darengb

2 weeks ago

@nickcammarata On the Origin of Species actually cited Empedocles as the first source for a theory of natural selection in in the 5th century BC but Darwin was the first to prove it. Unfortunately his texts are gone and we only have his theory explained by Aristotle: “Empedocles says that…

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