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  • Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma.

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  • “Decomposing Agency — capabilities without desires” by owencb, Raymond D

    “Decomposing Agency — capabilities without desires” by owencb, Raymond D
    Jul 29 2024
    This is a link post.What is an agent? It's a slippery concept with no commonly accepted formal definition, but informally the concept seems to be useful. One angle on it is Dennett's Intentional Stance: we think of an entity as being an agent if we can more easily predict it by treating it as having some beliefs and desires which guide its actions. Examples include cats and countries, but the central case is humans.

    The world is shaped significantly by the choices agents make. What might agents look like in a world with advanced — and even superintelligent — AI? A natural approach for reasoning about this is to draw analogies from our central example. Picture what a really smart human might be like, and then try to figure out how it would be different if it were an AI. But this approach risks baking in subtle assumptions — [...]

    The original text contained 5 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

    The original text contained 7 images which were described by AI.

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    First published:
    July 11th, 2024

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jpGHShgevmmTqXHy5/decomposing-agency-capabilities-without-desires

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    24 m
  • “Universal Basic Income and Poverty” by Eliezer Yudkowsky

    “Universal Basic Income and Poverty” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
    Jul 27 2024
    (Crossposted from Twitter)

    I'm skeptical that Universal Basic Income can get rid of grinding poverty, since somehow humanity's 100-fold productivity increase (since the days of agriculture) didn't eliminate poverty.

    Some of my friends reply, "What do you mean, poverty is still around? 'Poor' people today, in Western countries, have a lot to legitimately be miserable about, don't get me wrong; but they also have amounts of clothing and fabric that only rich merchants could afford a thousand years ago; they often own more than one pair of shoes; why, they even have cellphones, as not even an emperor of the olden days could have had at any price. They're relatively poor, sure, and they have a lot of things to be legitimately sad about. But in what sense is almost-anyone in a high-tech country 'poor' by the standards of a thousand years earlier? Maybe UBI works the same way [...]

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    First published:
    July 26th, 2024

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fPvssZk3AoDzXwfwJ/universal-basic-income-and-poverty

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    16 m
  • “Optimistic Assumptions, Longterm Planning, and ‘Cope’” by Raemon

    “Optimistic Assumptions, Longterm Planning, and ‘Cope’” by Raemon
    Jul 19 2024
    Eliezer Yudkowsky periodically complains about people coming up with questionable plans with questionable assumptions to deal with AI, and then either:

    • Saying "well, if this assumption doesn't hold, we're doomed, so we might as well assume it's true."
    • Worse: coming up with cope-y reasons to assume that the assumption isn't even questionable at all. It's just a pretty reasonable worldview.
    Sometimes the questionable plan is "an alignment scheme, which Eliezer thinks avoids the hard part of the problem." Sometimes it's a sketchy reckless plan that's probably going to blow up and make things worse.

    Some people complain about Eliezer being a doomy Negative Nancy who's overly pessimistic.

    I had an interesting experience a few months ago when I ran some beta-tests of my Planmaking and Surprise Anticipation workshop, that I think are illustrative.

    i. Slipping into a more Convenient World

    I have an exercise where I give people [...]

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    (00:59) i. Slipping into a more Convenient World

    (04:26) ii. Finding traction in the wrong direction.

    (06:47) Takeaways

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    First published:
    July 17th, 2024

    Source:
    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8ZR3xsWb6TdvmL8kx/optimistic-assumptions-longterm-planning-and-cope

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    13 m
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