Damien Henry

I created the Google Cardboard almost ten years ago but quit VR soon after to focus on Machine Learning. VR is based on a ridiculous misunderstanding. Let me explain why in this thread.

They are ants solving a geometric problem and it is mind-blowingly colorful.

There should be a "human safe space" universal marker to indicate chunks of text / source code that should never be removed / modified / bypassed by an AI.

I don’t like that “optimistic” conflates an epistemic / forecasting thing with a decision-making thing. A superforecaster will be simultaneously “optimistic” about things that will probably work out well and “pessimistic” about things that will probably not. And good for them, that’s exactly how they should be. Of course, that’s assuming they’re in the role of a passive observer. Separately, active participants in events should energetically try to make things go well. I think good leaders have both wolves inside them: given a plan, they are brutally honest and clear-eyed about how likely it is for the plan to work vs not work. But they also don’t give up searching for better plans prematurely. Hence CEOs are praised for “pivoting” away from unpromising plans etc. …Of course, I have an axe to grind here. I think we should be “pessimistic” about the AI risk situation, in the epistemic / forecasting sense, i.e. in the sense that I see a lot of problems that seem fatal and (based on historical analogies and other arguments) seem very likely to bite us. Thus, I usually describe myself as a “pessimist” about future AI, and I don’t like when people talk as if that’s my character flaw rather than my considered opinion. (Not you in particular, I see it a lot.) Of course, I am energetically trying to make things better. By analogy, if I’m captain of a high school football team, playing an exhibition game against top professionals, then I can and should energetically try to win, and brainstorm out-of-the-box strategies, etc. But after doing that, if I “optimistically” expect to win, then that would be moronic not praiseworthy.

today i wrote my last bash script 🤗