Congrats to Scott. I'm still somewhat disappointed Brendan Gregg didn't pop up there making the AI Alignment equivalent of flame graphs!
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#12Seeing someone as trustworthy as Scott choose to work on AI safety is a pretty good sign for the state of the field IMO. It seems like a lot of studious people agree AI alignment is important but then end up shoehorning the problem into whatever framework they are most expert in. When all you have is a hammer etc... I feel like he has good enough taste to avoid this pitfall. Semi-related - I'd want to see some actual…
Symmetrically someone like him transitioning from quantum computing should imply something negative about the state of quantum computing.
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#13I thought we decided 20 threads ago, that OpenAI is anything but open?
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#14I thought we decided 20 threads ago, that OpenAI is anything but open?
Exactly. It’s time for a name change.
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#15I thought we decided 20 threads ago, that OpenAI is anything but open?
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#16"When you start reading about AI safety, it’s striking how there are two separate communities—the one mostly worried about machine learning perpetuating racial and gender biases, and the one mostly worried about superhuman AI turning the planet into goo" - great quote.
Agreed. Maybe... Short sighted vs. far sighted vs. ignorance is bliss?
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#17"When you start reading about AI safety, it’s striking how there are two separate communities—the one mostly worried about machine learning perpetuating racial and gender biases, and the one mostly worried about superhuman AI turning the planet into goo" - great quote.
Agreed. Maybe... Short sighted vs. far sighted vs. ignorance is bliss?
It's a secular/religious divide. (As it says in the post.)
Though it's possible the people who think a theoretical future AI will turn the planet into paperclips have merely forgotten that perpetual motion machines aren't possible.
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#18So, physics is a dead-end? Given that Scott is running his own research lab, a year is a very long time and him working out of his field is an indication that physics is in a big trouble.
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#19Probably realized quantum computing is going nowhere fast.
Depends what you mean by quantum computing; if you mean the warehouse sized labs full of lasers and cryogenics then you are correct. If you mean the study of quantum algorithms then actually it's been an exciting year. The first polynomial speed-up for an NP unstructured pseudo random function was published in April. It's not even clear how big a deal it is!
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#20So, physics is a dead-end? Given that Scott is running his own research lab, a year is a very long time and him working out of his field is an indication that physics is in a big trouble.
Quantum computing is slow to mature. Physics is a huge field.