由作者的学生Ray L.翻译 我们有一个巨大的问题，在一切的中心。它的影响力充斥着我们设计的所有东西，我们拥有的一切，好似一个滴答作响的定时炸弹，而且走时还在不断加快。这个问题就叫做“定义”
Post Modernism: What AI Alignment Teaches Us About Education (and everything else)
There is a problem at the heart of, well everything. It pervades all our designs and is a time bomb whose ticks are accelerating. The problem is that of definition. (there are many footnotes in this article, as well as links. If you have an objection, check out the footnotes first! But if not, feel free to… Continue reading Post Modernism: What AI Alignment Teaches Us About Education (and everything else)
二 石砺
石砺拎着把铁铲，铲面陈灰叠旧土，新添了抹殷红滴滴答答，像只赤厉鬼。方才纯是血气上涌，凌虐孩童他见不得，一铲招呼了位‘主子’。给他厂里做牛做马二十年，打了照面这主多半也不认得他。他瞧着那身考究西装里裹着的人面兽满地打滚蠕动，抽抽得一头一脸的土，掂量：袭击‘上等人’是死罪，杀害‘上等人’，也还是死罪。于是，他耸耸肩，哐哧补了一铲子。
In Genuine Praise of So Called Folly: Why Only Nonoptimization Matters
Audio here The title of this article might seem a strange one coming from an economist. This is the third of three planned essays. The two preceding articles in this series, the first of which built a lens to observe life from a tautology and the second, took reasonable scientific inference from the first. In… Continue reading In Genuine Praise of So Called Folly: Why Only Nonoptimization Matters
Receptor Theory: Why Fiction is “True”
Audio version here This is a continuation of the last article on The Universal Lens. But only two claims from that article are needed. -All life must in some way be a statistical response model to its environment. This is because for life to continue, it must fulfill the dual mandates of gathering energy from… Continue reading Receptor Theory: Why Fiction is “True”
The Universal Lens: Basic Logic of Any Self Organizing System
(of which so far constitutes only life, but this logic applies to any and all future robot overlords[1]). All systems tend towards the inevitability of entropy. A drop of ink placed in a glass of water quickly and with statistical necessity will become a glass of tinted water. A rock placed in the water would… Continue reading The Universal Lens: Basic Logic of Any Self Organizing System
The Plan: A Realistic Detective Story
From hell's heart, I stab at thee. Victor knocked over the first domino, the one he knew would lead to his death. But his death didn't matter. Victor's life was but a means to an end, the end of him. It was all meticulously planned down to the last detail. His hanging body would be… Continue reading The Plan: A Realistic Detective Story
Dream Girl: Part 4
Kenji lay in bed, from the light making its way through the blinds it must have been at least noon. He had emailed Ito-san to tell him the doctor advised him rest for a day. Tomorrow it wasn’t as if anything would be better. He didn’t have enough savings to leave work, he couldn’t call… Continue reading Dream Girl: Part 4
Dream Girl: Part 3
The next morning he argued with himself over which red tie to wear to work, a casual observer might not be able to tell the difference between the two, but Kenji just really wanted to wear a red tie that day, and had suddenly noticed that while one was red, the other was a slightly… Continue reading Dream Girl: Part 3
Dream Girl: Part 2
A knock at the door, and that could only mean one of two things, a delivery or Daisuke. This time it was a mix of both, Daisuke was standing there bag in hand presenting his host with only the finest of convenience store sushi and sake. The events of the previous day had made him… Continue reading Dream Girl: Part 2
Homo Economicish 