I find Kegan’s model of psychological development extremely useful. Some folks I know disagree on various grounds. These…
Exactly two years to the day I started writing this post I published Map and Territory’s most…
The first group to build artificial general intelligence or AGI stands to gain a significant strategic and market advantage over competitors, so companies, universities, militaries, and other actors have strong…
In the initial feedback I’ve received on my attempt to formally state the AI alignment problem, the primary objection I’ve heard is that I assume any AI worth aligning will experience qualia. In particular, some think we have to worry about aligning AI that…
We encounter psychology in our lives mainly through dysfunction. That is, people generally go to see psychologists…
I keep finding cause to discuss the problem of the criterion, so I figured I’d try my hand at writing up a…
Today we’re going to be talking about a useful dichotomy that I think gets overlooked quite often. It’s the distinction between Recognizing and Generating. The words by themselves don’t explain too much, so here are some…
(Cross-posted from Sinceriously.fyi)
I spent this past weekend at a case study competition called UW Apprentice, which was unique among events I’ve attended in two ways. One is that the cases were fresh from real startups that came in and…
