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cool-RR

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About cool-RR

I'm Ram, an AI Safety researcher with a background in software engineering.

I'm applying multi-agent reinforcement learning to AI Safety. I want to ensure that Artificial Intelligence will benefit human society rather than hurt it. I'm addressing both short-term consequences of existing AI tools such as LLMs and long-term existential risk imposed by the potential development of Artificial General Intelligence.

I propose to solve the problem of AI Safety by improving the social behavior of AI agents. Most AI research is focused on getting AI agents to solve bigger and more complex problems in the most efficient way possible; my research is focused on achieving cooperation, reciprocity and teamwork between AI agents.

My strategy is to distill lessons from the study of animal and human societies and apply them to AI agents.

Read more about my research here: https://r.rachum.com

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    Comment #47687676

    Begun, the noise-cancelling wars have.

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    Comment #47320664

    I used to play with Lotus on my mom's work computer when I was a child. Today I'm doing AI Safety research and when I'm examining experiment data I use the closest modern tool to L…

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    Comment #47134487

    I'm happy to see this. It belongs in the stdlib and not a third-party module.

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    Comment #47005473

    Interesting insight.

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    Comment #46651906

    It's my fantasy to do this. Congrats on having the courage.

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    Comment #45879692

    > What’s left behind are opaque, black box systems with almost no one who understands how they work. Maybe 50-year-old COBOL programs are the original neural networks.

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    Show HN: Dodo: Desktop Switcher for Windows

    Neat little utility I made with Claude Code that lets you use Alt-number to move between desktops on Windows 10.

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    Comment #45680632

    I wrote it in a way that's too intertwined with my other shit to be shareable with people, but honestly you can copy-paste my comment to your friendly neighborhood LLM and you'll g…

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    Comment #45678794

    The most useful script I wrote is one I call `posh`. It shorten a file path by using environment variables. Example: $ posh /home/ramrachum/Dropbox/notes.txt $DX/notes.txt Of cours…

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    Comment #45361645

    Dating apps are not meant to be efficient, definitely not to someone with a developer mindset.

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    Comment #45018498

    I wrote this Chrome extension to solve this problem for myself 2 years ago: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/focustoscroll/jbcpo... Apparently no one else was interested in…

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    Comment #44918471

    Can you share a photo of the backpack?

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    Comment #42646997

    I printed it but it doesn't work :(

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    Comment #42403843

    I developed a similar solution for Windows over a decade ago which I've been using every day. It works but it needs to be made easy for people other than me to use (Readme, require…

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    Comment #42134716

    > > I was a L5 IC at the time and that was an L8 decision > omg, this sounds like the gigantic, ossified and crushing bureaucracy of a third world country. No, it sounds like how m…

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    Comment #42095740

    I'm flummoxed at the lack of Python support.

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    Comment #41786988

    I wonder why various outlets, including DeepMind's blog, say that John Jumper is a "Senior Research Scientist". That's L5 which sounds like quite a low rank for a Nobel prize winne…

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    Comment #41425978

    SEEKING WORK | Israel | Remote first Software engineer with 12 years experience. PSF Fellow and Ex-Googler. Anything Python-related. Bonus points if I get to work with JAX. CV: htt…

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    Comment #41384760

    I want to feed it not only the code but also a corpus of questions and answers, e.g. from the discussions page on GitHub. Is that possible?

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    Comment #41014974

    Bad UI. You need to double-click the desired area. Not sure what to do on mobile.

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    Comment #40730394

    Right, true safe super intelligence could only be developed in countries that finished genociding their indigenous populations centuries ago.

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    Comment #40037527

    I can't find whether it's effective against snoring or not. Can someone help?

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    Comment #39821382

    This might be the first actual livestream.