NameRedacted wrote some nice thoughts about existential risk from artificial superintelligence (ASI): https://michaelnotebook.com/xrisk…
Very smart people tend to disbelieve in [ enlightenment ] because they hold up unrealistic notions of what it is or what it entails. There…
Informally, a function is a one-way function if it is easy to compute but hard to invert. Or more generally, hard to pseudo-invert, i.e…
Is there such a thing as 'general intelligence'? What capabilities does it require? Is it a goal worth striving for? We usually speak about…
It's natural to fault someone who fails to follow advice, especially when the results are predictably bad. It can be helpful to notice and…
Doing [ math ] seems like a really promising area for AI. And by 'math' I mean math research (not arithmetic, which computers are already…
"What I cannot create, I do not understand". Related to: [ computational complexity ]: provers vs verifiers. [ P != NP ] [ production vs…