7+ hour, 4+ min ago  (347+ words) Today I'm at Less Online, and yesterday I was at the annual CHAI workshop. Both are chock full of people I don't know, with a good smattering of people I do. This is also my experience at other events like…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (726+ words) If the box contains a diamond, I desire to believe that the box contains a diamond; If the box does not contain a diamond right now, but will contain a diamond if I believe there is a diamond, Holding unfounded…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (410+ words) First post in a planned cluster on exact results for natural latents. Here, I connect some established results in classical information theory to nat...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (802+ words) TL; DR: We can propose "consciousness tests" only if we imply the existence of a task that only a genuinely conscious system can solve. Therefore, if we invent an internally uncontradictive solution to that task, we'll create consciousness. I won't…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1347+ words) The Martial Art of Rationality'has always stuck with me " the notion that a mind can be trained like a body, drilled in stances and forms. And using your mental capabilities effectively often comes down to adopting the right'stance'for the occasion....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (805+ words) When you think back to a core memory of yours, do you remember your vision being oddly good? As if you were recording with better equipment, at a hig...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1008+ words) Ted Chiang recently published a piece in The Atlantic titled "No, Artificial Intelligence is Not Conscious." As a big fan of Chiang's fiction and someone with a deep interest in AI, I wanted to read it immediately. It's relatively short,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (779+ words) Ethical emotivism is a non-realist moral theory[1] which says that there is nothing more to moral statements than exclamations of emotion. For instance, saying "murder is bad" is just the same as saying "boo murder", or expressing that you get…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1429+ words) contra scott alexander (?) Yesterday, I went to the'Berkeley ACX Meetup. Scott Alexander was there, and ran a Q&A session where participants could as...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1447+ words) A lot happened this week, including a great trip out to Lighthaven. "...