Rob Miles

Explaining AI Alignment to anyone who'll stand still for long enough, on YouTube and Discord.

Music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

@electrolemon @btwntwinpeaks Release The Beast is an excellent one to surprise people with at dance parties

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

@bellaforristal @NathanpmYoung I sense the hand of @freed_dfilan

[Geoffrey Irving @geoffreyirving]

We are starting a new, nonprofit alignment organization, ⊢ Sequent Research, bringing together researchers previously on UK AISI’s Alignment Team, Timaeus, and elsewhere to research how to align superintelligence. We are hiring! 🧵

[Nate Soares ⏹️ @So8res]

Leadership at Google DM, Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI have all said they'd prefer the whole world slow down AI. There's still a ways to go — wikipedia puts more effort into convincing you to give $2 than AIcos put into alerting the world to the danger of ASI — but it's a start.

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

@iruletheworldmo @wrwagox @MParakhin @thesaraharminta lol, you're right, damn

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

Maybe I should make a video about Fable, but the SEO situation for "Robert Miles Fable" would be terrible

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

I think it's brand loyalty from when Dropbox used to be an extremely cool company, in like 2009. I was an early adopter, the product was simple and small and fast and worked well, and they'd do these puzzle hunt things via the platform that would earn you extra space, idk. They've now bloated with a bunch of crap I don't care about, but the core functionality still works well so I'm happy with it

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

@deepfates I do. I think it's still the most transparent low friction option, to just have a shared directory on different devices

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

@CalebChamberla6 Differential thrust is part of why drones sound so unpleasant, they're constantly making very discordant pitch intervals. Thrust vectoring lets you run the rotors at the same speed and sound nicer in built up areas.
In this case though my money's on "it looks cool"

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

@captgouda24 Was fun to experience the live version of this with commentary

[Nate Soares ⏹️ @So8res]

I'm hearing a lot of business folk excited about the idea that AI is turning out to be a human-enhancing tech, not a replacement tech. Reminder: There was a window of time when human+AI teams were better at chess than AIs alone. It didn't last.

[Rob Wiblin @robertwiblin]

80,000 Hours the book was published by Penguin today.

It's our definitive explanation of how to use your career to try to force the world onto a better track.

The result of 14 years honing our ideas.

See what's in there and order: https://t.co/bpGbQL8gDs

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

This namespace is a mess. Like what do you mean I'm using 3030 8020 extrusions of 6061 aluminium

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

(Yes this is about LLMs)

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

I am very suspicious of those who want to justify cruelty on the basis that the subjects "aren't people".
Even if you're right, why are you motivated to look for acceptable targets for cruelty?

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

@AndyMasley I'm not sure at all, but I seem to remember this becoming much more of a thing around COVID

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

@42irrationalist I don't know what your internal experience is like, but my mind is rendering proper 3D?

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

@AbHomineDeus Etymologically, synthetic means "put together" and artificial means "made with skill". Both are kind of true of modern AI and kind of not, but I don't think either one more strongly implies 'real', they both mean man-made.

[Rob Miles @robertskmiles]

Your model of the world is fully 3D! Your model of your vision is 2D, because your retina is 2D