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Matt Arnold's blog: Failure Modes Of Existential Therapy https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/406133.html

Matt Arnold's blog: Failure Modes Of Existential Therapy https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/406133.html

Matt Arnold's blog: What Went Wrong in the 2010s—and How the New Politics of Identity Made It Worse...

Matt Arnold's blog: What Went Wrong in the 2010s—and How the New Politics of Identity Made It Worse https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/405930.html

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "A Better Future, Without...

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "A Better Future, Without Backprop"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/a-better-future-without-backprop

This concludes "Gradient Dissent", the companion document to "Better Without AI". Thank you so much for listening! You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks   If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold    

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Better Text Generation With Science And...

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Better Text Generation With Science And Engineering"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/better-text-generation-with-science-and-engineering

Current text generators, such as ChatGPT, are highly unreliable, difficult to use effectively, unable to do many things we might want them to, and extremely expensive to develop and run. These defects are inherent in their underlying technology. Quite different methods could plausibly remedy all these defects. Would that be good, or bad? https://betterwithout.ai/better-text-gener

Matt Arnold's blog: Authentic Relating And Circling https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/405610.html

Matt Arnold's blog: Authentic Relating And Circling https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/405610.html

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Classifying Images: Massive Parallelism And Surface...

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Classifying Images: Massive Parallelism And Surface Features"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/classifying-images-massive-parallelism-and-surface-features

Analysis of image classifiers demonstrates that it is possible to understand backprop networks at the task-relevant run-time algorithmic level. In these systems, at least, networks gain their power from deploying massive parallelism to check for the presence of a vast number of simple, shallow patterns. https://betterwithout.ai/images-surface-features This episode has a

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Do AI As Engineering...

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Do AI As Engineering Instead"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/do-ai-as-engineering-instead

Current AI practice is not engineering, even when it aims for practical applications, because it is not based on scientific understanding. Enforcing engineering norms on the field could lead to considerably safer systems.   https://betterwithout.ai/AI-as-engineering   This episode has a lot of links! Here they are.   Michael Nielsen’s “The role of ‘explanation’ in AI”. https://michaelnotebook.com/ongoi

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Do AI As Science Instead"https://fluidity.libsyn.com/do-ai-as-science-instead...

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Do AI As Science Instead"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/do-ai-as-science-instead

Few AI experiments constitute meaningful tests of hypotheses. As a branch of machine learning research, AI science has concentrated on black box investigation of training time phenomena. The best of this work is has been scientifically excellent. However, the hypotheses tested are mainly irrelevant to user and societal concerns. https://betterwithout.ai/AI-as-science This chapter references Chapman's es

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Do AI As Science And Engineering...

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Do AI As Science And Engineering Instead"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/do-ai-as-science-and-engineering-instead

Do AI As Science And Engineering Instead - We’ve seen that current AI practice leads to technologies that are expensive, difficult to apply in real-world situations, and inherently unsafe. Neglected scientific and engineering investigations can bring better understanding of the risks of current AI technology, and can lead to safer technologies.   https://betterwithout.ai/science-engineering

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Artificial Neurons Considered Harmful, Part...

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Artificial Neurons Considered Harmful, Part 2"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/artificial-neurons-considered-harmful-part-2

The conclusion of this chapter.   So-called “neural networks” are extremely expensive, poorly understood, unfixably unreliable, deceptive, data hungry, and inherently limited in capabilities. In short: they are bad.  https://betterwithout.ai/artificial-neurons-considered-harmful Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan’s "The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools": https://aisn

Matt Arnold's blog: Burning Man And Epcot- Two Visions Of Progress https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/405392.html

Matt Arnold's blog: Burning Man And Epcot- Two Visions Of Progress https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/405392.html

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Futurism, Politics, and...

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Futurism, Politics, and Responsibility"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/futurism-politics-and-responsibility

The five short chapters in this episode are the conclusion of the main body of Better Without AI. Next, we'll begin the book's appendix, Gradient Dissent. Cozy Futurism - If we knew we’d never get flying cars, most people wouldn’t care. What do we care about? https://betterwithout.ai/cozy-futurism Meaningful Futurism - Likeable futures are meaningful, not just materially comfortable. Brin

@ZwodahS I enjoy Crop Rotation! After I win a run, I would really like to be able to just keep playing that run into the 2nd year, until I...

@ZwodahS I enjoy Crop Rotation! After I win a run, I would really like to be able to just keep playing that run into the 2nd year, until I upgrade all my crops to their maximum tier. Thank you for making this!

@jamesdotgamble You mentioned you moved penguicon.social onto another platform. Digital Ocean is still billing me $35/mo for the droplet I...

@jamesdotgamble You mentioned you moved penguicon.social onto another platform. Digital Ocean is still billing me $35/mo for the droplet I set up to run it. (Which I'm still happy to pay.) I'm hesitant to turn it off hastily in case an unknown aspect of the system still depends on it. Are you and/or Paul available to set aside a planned time to test shutting it off & be on standby for troubleshooting?

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Develop And Mandate Intrinsic...

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Develop And Mandate Intrinsic Cybersecurity"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/develop-and-mandate-intrinsic-cybersecurity

Gaining unauthorized access to computer systems is a key source of power in many AI doom scenarios. That is easy now, because there are scant incentives for serious cybersecurity; so nearly all systems are radically insecure. Technical and political initiatives must mitigate this problem. https://betterwithout.ai/cybersecurity-vs-AI   You can support the podcast and get episodes a week e

Matt Arnold's blog: An Ethnographic Example Of Ritual Ceremony https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/404805.html

Matt Arnold's blog: An Ethnographic Example Of Ritual Ceremony https://nemorathwald.dreamwidth.org/404805.html

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Who Is In control Of AI? What An AI Apocalypse May Look...

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Who Is In control Of AI? What An AI Apocalypse May Look Like"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/who-is-in-control-of-ai-what-an-ai-apocalypse-may-look-like

Who is in control of AI? - It may already be too late to shut down the existing AI systems that could destroy civilization. https://betterwithout.ai/AI-is-out-of-control What an AI apocalypse may look like - Scenarios in which artificial intelligence systems degrade critical institutions to the point of collapse seem to me not just likely, but well under way. https:/

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Apocalypse Now - At War With The...

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Apocalypse Now - At War With The Machines"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/apocalypse-now-at-war-with-the-machines

"In this audiobook... A LARGE BOLD FONT IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS SOUNDS LIKE THIS."   Apocalypse now - Current AI systems are already harmful. They pose apocalyptic risks even without further technology development. This chapter explains why; explores a possible path for near-term human extinction via AI; and sketches several disaster scenarios.   https://betterwithout.ai/apocalypse-now   At

In this video, I relate an anecdote from Fluidity Forum 2023, which illustrates the unique opportunities provided by the...

In this video, I relate an anecdote from Fluidity Forum 2023, which illustrates the unique opportunities provided by the event.

https://youtu.be/mNrQI2pyMPc?si=dm5Qj6f5MqUINtQ2

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Fear Power, Not...

A new episode of the Fluidity #audiobook #podcast: "Fear Power, Not Intelligence"

https://fluidity.libsyn.com/fear-power-not-intelligence

Superintelligence should scare us only insofar as it grants superpowers. Protecting against specific harms of specific plausible powers may be our best strategy for preventing catastrophes.   https://betterwithout.ai/fear-AI-power   For much of the AI safety community, the central question has been “when will it happen?!” That is futile: we don’t have a coherent description of what “it” is, much less h