Category: Notes to self
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A recent paper seems to have found something interesting — here is the tl;dr: Taking inspiration from those problems and aiming for even simpler settings, we arrived at a very simple problem template that can be easily solved using common sense reasoning but is not entirely straightforward, of the following…
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These are some notes for a panel discussion this afternoon – they are sketches, much more work needed on this and I need to also figure out if this is quite right, and don’t feel it is, not yet. Notes on macroeconomics and AI The mental models we have when…
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What is the bare minimum you need to believe to believe that we should invest significantly in ensuring that AI-systems are secure, safe and sustainable? That seems like a simple question – and it is not that hard to answer. You essentially just need to believe that they are going…
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How does an information society collapse? Is it in information overload, as some people seem to believe? If so – what does that mean? Remember the key value chain model for information: [data – information – knowledge – wisdom] – so where does the collapse occur? Herbert Simon pointed out…
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Here is a thought experiment: what happens when the cost of imitating a person reaches zero? Assume that we can create synthetic media that looks like X, speaks in X voice with X’s mannerisms etc etc — and deploy that in any channel or persistently available across all channels for…
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In a remarkable, recent paper, two researchers can show that in and around the camps where there were more “enemies of the people” – highly educated academics and artists – growth today is higher and creativity is flourishing. It is both a testament to the resilience of human beings and…
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It turns out that there is no such things as trees or crabs. Yet, a lot of things end up in crab-shapes or tree-shapes. What is happening here? This is a question that is related to the work on physics and evolution put forward by people like Geoffrey West, especially…