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Okay, I think I buy it as a distinct category. I think you could fit the recent hacking incidents into…
Yeah, that’s from a (quite good) Scott Alexander blogpost.
Re-reading Mark’s comment, I think my reply could’ve been clearer. Since Mark mentions the paperclip maximizer case as a classic…
Hmmm, in terms of my tripartite taxonomy of misuse, misalignment, and misfire risks , I would classify the paperclip maximizer…
Yeah, I was discussing this with a mathematician after I posted this and he said the same thing. The entanglement…
But since Claude said it, now we *know* it’s true! :p Incidentally, did anyone else catch the use of the…
As I said upthread, while I’m a mathematician, I don’t work on fluid dynamics, so I may be off-base. But…
Radu Bogdan (Tulane) just alerted me that Professor Harnish, a long-time member of the philosophy and linguistics faculties, as well as the cognitive science program, at the University of Arizona, passed away in October. There is more information about his career and work here.
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