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Steven D Marlow
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May 17, 2022

Can’t finish what you don’t start.

About a week ago I stumbled onto a site called Metaculus, which has two “forecasting” posts related too Artificial General Intelligence. I looked at the suggested “arrival” dates, read thru the comments, and had planned to post a short entry of my own. …

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Can’t finish what you don’t start.
Can’t finish what you don’t start.

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Mar 22, 2022

Technological Firestarters

This might be a career ending post, such as it is. I’m just done with it all. Not what Artificial Intelligence is meant to represent, but with the people that claim to represent it. Yann “It’s the media that called my DL work AI 10 years ago, but now I’m…

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Technological Firestarters
Technological Firestarters

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Feb 14, 2022

Safe Cracking

Breaking into the black box, or trying to break out of it? This post is based on my thoughts after reading thru a 2022 AGI Safety Fundamentals alignment curriculum (here). Steady-on Are issues of safety really just issues of current trends in Machine Learning? If an understanding of ML terms is…

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Safe Cracking
Safe Cracking

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Jan 13, 2022

Slaying the ML Dragon

I’d like to tell you a story of high adventure… Actually, I’d like to play a game of high adventure where you just need to stay on-script most of the time, because the goal is to capture the thought process that goes into creating a real-time generated narrative fiction for…

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Slaying the ML Dragon
Slaying the ML Dragon

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Dec 18, 2021

Slaughter, but…

Future of Life Institute recently uploaded a second video featuring their slaughterbots, and I’d like to start by emphasizing that these are their own creation. While the first video was more of a “it could happen” warning, the second video was just a gore fest. …

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Slaughter, but…
Slaughter, but…

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Nov 20, 2021

This Made Tesla Cry

This Made Tesla Cry YouTube recommended a video from a channel I intentionally don’t follow, but I was curious enough about the claim being made in the title to give it a look. What follows is a collection of the comments I left at different points in the video. There…

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This Made Tesla Cry
This Made Tesla Cry

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Nov 7, 2021

Bite My Shiny Metal Ass

Bite My Shiny Metal Ass Have you ever seen a link to an article, and just knew it was going to give you an ulcer reading it? Yes, I know, why would you read it knowing it was going to bother you. …

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Bite My Shiny Metal Ass
Bite My Shiny Metal Ass

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Aug 6, 2021

Unofficial Q&A about Consciousness

I just came across a tweet from The Chapman Brain Institute, and a still active survey related to the nature of consciousness (original date of tweet was May 12th). The first page of statements seemed interesting enough, so I decided to write-out the thinking behind all of my answers. …

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Unofficial Q&A about Consciousness
Unofficial Q&A about Consciousness

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Mar 6, 2021

Safety Sold Separately

There are a lot of people thinking about AI Safety, which is fine, but just like the AI Ethics movement, there seems to be a disconnect between “make it safe” and what that actually means in terms of real-world design. Before taking a stroll down that path, it’s important to…

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Safety Sold Separately
Safety Sold Separately

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Feb 24, 2021

AI Alignment is Philosophy, not Science.

This post is a collection of thoughts I had while listening to the Brain Inspired podcast episode 98, with Brian Christian, talking about the alignment problem. There are no specific timestamps for each section, nor did I try to connect all of my thoughts into a single exposition. For every…

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Steven D Marlow

Steven D Marlow

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I'm applying for the mad scientist position. Have robot. Will travel.

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