This sounds like an interesting book. The description reminded me a bit of a book that has had a profound impact on my thinking: "spectres of the Atlantic," which details the story of a slave ship called the zong. In one voyage of the zong the slaves got quite sick so the captain made the "rational" (actuarial) decision to throw the slaves overboard and collect the insurance money. I look forward to reading.
Definitely going to give this a read. Iβve always been interested in intuition versus systematized decision-making. For a while I tried to formalize this by comparing heuristics against optimal policies in sandboxed toy gamesβ¦but then Iβd wonder why I had this overwhelming urge to formalize such things in the first place. Still donβt think I have a good answerβ¦
I very much look forward to consuming this work when it is published. I believe we see what you highlight reflected in the alignment problem when an AI cannot distinguish a rational concept within an underlying irrational context. We are working with some new classes of collective intelligence which has its own novel game theory class that seems to align with how you are thinking.
Awesome, can't wait to read it! This will jump the queue on the ten or fifteen other books I have sitting on my Kindle (I'm not optimistic I'll chew through much of the backlog by March, lol).
This is very exciting! I love reading nonfiction books that assess the world (both past and present) and also challenge conventional ways of thought. I'll definitely be adding this to my reading list! Thanks for sharing and writing! :)
Preordered!
> "and I know I put blog posts out faster than anyone else wants to read them"
Not true, at least in my case : )
Can't wait to read it!
Congrats, Ben! Looks like a great read
excited!!!
This sounds like an interesting book. The description reminded me a bit of a book that has had a profound impact on my thinking: "spectres of the Atlantic," which details the story of a slave ship called the zong. In one voyage of the zong the slaves got quite sick so the captain made the "rational" (actuarial) decision to throw the slaves overboard and collect the insurance money. I look forward to reading.
My god I'm excited for this book!! Ordered!
Ordered! I feel like I'm always going 'make good decisions, but don't be such a freak about it' and it sounds like I'll have good preaching material.
Definitely going to give this a read. Iβve always been interested in intuition versus systematized decision-making. For a while I tried to formalize this by comparing heuristics against optimal policies in sandboxed toy gamesβ¦but then Iβd wonder why I had this overwhelming urge to formalize such things in the first place. Still donβt think I have a good answerβ¦
I very much look forward to consuming this work when it is published. I believe we see what you highlight reflected in the alignment problem when an AI cannot distinguish a rational concept within an underlying irrational context. We are working with some new classes of collective intelligence which has its own novel game theory class that seems to align with how you are thinking.
Any chance of an audiobook?
Awesome, can't wait to read it! This will jump the queue on the ten or fifteen other books I have sitting on my Kindle (I'm not optimistic I'll chew through much of the backlog by March, lol).
Fantastic! Iβm looking forward to reading it.
Super exciting! pre-ordered!
This is very exciting! I love reading nonfiction books that assess the world (both past and present) and also challenge conventional ways of thought. I'll definitely be adding this to my reading list! Thanks for sharing and writing! :)
I can't speak for others, but I believe that decisions in the face of uncertainty should be made through *warm* mathematical calculation.