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context: was thinking about how in many well-funded gaming+gambling apps, the best AIs/opponents are not simply optimized to win/lose, but to have a fully-optimal trajectory of making you think youre going to lose, then think youre going to win.. then ensure you just barely lose
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eventually consumers seem to get the general concept of this after it is hammered in hard in a given area but even myself, being as analytical and technical as i am, often underestimate the absurd amount of selective pressure which goes into the most formidable algorithms
context: was thinking about how in many well-funded gaming+gambling apps, the best AIs/opponents are not simply optimized to win/lose, but to have a fully-optimal trajectory of making you think youre going to lose, then think youre going to win.. then ensure you just barely lose
ive always thought instead of an alphabetical bestiary with alligators and bears and cats we should be teaching kids of psychofauna and algorithms, but personified, named, and exemplified. a is for the Attention Harvester, b is for the Black Box, c is for Clickbait. this accurately reflects the types of predators they will actually encounter
eventually consumers seem to get the general concept of this after it is hammered in hard in a given area but even myself, being as analytical and technical as i am, often underestimate the absurd amount of selective pressure which goes into the most formidable algorithms
RT @BjarturTomas: The rats in MIT, subject to the vast selection power of student-made traps over many generations, surpasse average human…
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i thought the pope couldn’t perform miracles but getting a venture capitalist to stop tweeting got me thinking
i think i copied this from scott alexander or maybe a dream with scott alexander in it but i dont feel like checking so consider this probabilistic attribution
i thought the pope couldn’t perform miracles but getting a venture capitalist to stop tweeting got me thinking
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