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185 – The Rise and Fall of Peer Review, with Adam Mastroianni

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Importance of Time Travel in AI

Wilma Caskill was majorly influenced by Elia Zoryevkowski and his sequences. "It hit me smack in the face halfway through this post when he says an AI with a five percent temporal discount rate has a near infinite incentive to expend all available resources on attempting time travel" She doesn't like her god making these sorts of trade-offs right mm-hmm I want my you know I want the world governing machine to care about the future in a hundred and one years just as much as they care about it in a hundred yearsYeah we can't put like a hard time horizon on it because I think he even says something like uh then it would be perfectly sensible

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