Generally, I’m going to try to be apolitical in this blog, but obviously a very important election has just happened and there are a few interesting (for me!) points. Hopefully they will be relatively apolitical (on the object level). I’ll also talk about my take on party strategy and future...
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Initial Thoughts on Boyd and OODA Loops
I’ve been reading Boyd’s work again, this time focusing on the primary sources. I’ve not really begun to internalize it all yet, so expect more posts on this in the near future. This is just a set of initial, tentative thoughts about the OODA loop.
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Long time no see
So, starting this up again after laying dormant for quite a while. Got a fair bit to do on this. So hopefully watch this space.
Regularising Utility Functions
I’ve been reading Bostrom’s book Superintelligence recently and one potential solution to some of the problems of accidental unfriendly AI leapt out at me. Bostrom has some pretty silly examples of how encoding utility functions directly into the AI can fail. The most obvious case is the extreme paperclip maximiser...
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Test first post
Finally started with the website/blog. This is ultimately a test. So see if it works?