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| | Quantum computers would be exceptionally fast at a few specific tasks, but it appears that for most problems they would outclass today's computers only modestly. This realization may lead to a new fundamental physical principle
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| | I've had a miserable week (only partly because of the headaches and coughing fits that have been keeping me up all night), and feel a need to be of use to some other human being without leaving my apartment. So this thread is for you to ask about whatever's on your mind -- complexity classes,...
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| | The big news of the week is OpenAI introducing the Superalignment Taskforce. OpenAI is pledging 20% of compute secured to date towards a four year ef...
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| (Note: I wrote this with editing help from Rob and Eliezer. Eliezer's responsible for a few of the paragraphs.) A common confusion I see in the tiny fragment of the world that knows about logical decision theory (FDT/UDT/etc.), is that people think LDT agents are genial and friendly for each other.[1] One recent example is Will Eden's tweet about how maybe a molecular paperclip/squiggle maximizer would leave humanity a few stars/galaxies/whatever on game-theoretic grounds. (And that's just one example; I hear this suggestion bandied around pretty often.)