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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…
…including some travel, so comments on open threads may not get approved too efficiently. Please be patient!
(I do have lots of stuff in the pipeline however for the blog.)
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