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Ordinary Ideas
Personal blog · ordinaryideas.wordpress.comaiphilosophy
Ordinary Ideas is a personal blog at ordinaryideas.wordpress.com about ai and philosophy. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The universal prior is malign”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on AI alignment and indirect normativity, prediction market accuracy and risk arbitrage. The comments cite the posts as support and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
As advertised
Most-linked posts?
- The universal prior is malign2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-06
- /2012/04/21/indirect-normativity-write-up/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-12
What Hacker News says?
Then, Sir, I encourage you to get thee quickly to this Partially Examined Life podcast episode[1] with Nick Bostrom[2]. Only came out on the 6th of January and it makes for super interesting listening. It's based off of the text with his 2014 book in which he's gone to great lengths to think philosophically about this very existential threat -- in his opinion, man's most pressing. Part of his reasoning goes like thi…
Comment linking /2012/04/21/indirect-normativity-write-up/
on “Elon Musk donates $10M to keep AI beneficial”Submitted The universal prior is malign as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIndirect normativity is a losing strategy because you don't know what the resultant ethical system will be. https://ordinaryideas.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/indirect-norm... Humanity has already solved ethics, so there's no reason for us to give up and ask AI to define ethics for us.
Comment linking /2012/04/21/indirect-normativity-write-up/
on “Research Priorities for Artificial Intelligence: An Open Letter”Interestingly enough, even idealized prediction markets don't produce accurate probability estimates, but generally overweight bad events like collapse of the market itself: https://ordinaryideas.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/risk-arbitrag... .
Comment linking /2011/12/16/risk-arbitrage/
on “The power of prediction markets”> "infinite compression", in which it is claimed that every possible input can be reduced in size. It's computationally intractable (in fact, I'm pretty sure it's computational-intractability-complete), but if you live in a deterministic universe, it actually is possible to compress any input to at most a psuedo-constant number of bits. Just run every possible program in some Turing-complete language in parallel, an…
Comment linking /2016/11/30/what-does-the-universal-prior-actually-look-like/
on “Paradoxical Compression with VDF”
