“Winners of the Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy” by AI Impacts
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We’re delighted to announce the winners of the Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy.

** Overview** The competition attracted 90 entries in total (only one of which was obviously just the work of an LLM!), taking a wide variety of angles on the topic. The judges awarded the top four prizes as follows:

$7,000 to Rudolf Laine for essays on wisdom, amortised optimisation, and AI:

Part I: Wisdom, amortised optimisation, and AI

Part II: Growth and amortised optimisation

Part III: AI effects on amortised optimisation

$6,000 to Thane Ruthenis for Towards the operationalization of philosophy & wisdom

$4,000 to Chris Leong for essays on training wise AI systems:

An Overview of “Obvious” Approaches to Training Wise AI Advisors

Some Preliminary Notes on the Promise of a Wisdom Explosion

$3,000 to Gabriel Recchia for Should [...]

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Outline:

(00:22) Overview

(02:19) Judge introductions

(03:55) Top Prize Winners

(04:12) Wisdom, amortised optimisation, and AI — Rudolf Laine — $7,000

(04:44) Summary

(06:07) BS's comments

(06:45) CN's comments

(08:46) DM's comments

(12:13) Towards the operationalization of philosophy and wisdom — Thane Ruthenis — $6,000

(12:21) Summary

(13:59) DM's comments

(17:02) CN's comments

(19:24) BS's comments

(21:38) Essays on training wise AI systems — Chris Leong — $4,000

(22:11) Summary

(23:20) CN's comments

(24:34) BS's comments

(25:11) Should we just be building more datasets? — Gabriel Recchia — $3,000

(25:19) Summary

(26:07) CN's comments

(27:56) BS's comments

(28:44) Runner-up prizes

(28:48) Designing Artificial Wisdom: The Wise Workflow Research Organization — Jordan Arel

(29:21) Summary

(30:31) CN's comments

(30:51) Philosophys Digital Future — Richard Yetter Chappell

(30:56) Summary

(31:45) BS's comments

(32:43) CN's comments

(32:59) Synthetic Socrates and the Philosophers of the Future — Jimmy Alfonso Licon

(33:06) Summary

(33:52) CN's comments

(34:08) BS's comments

(34:28) The Web of Belief — Paal Fredrik S. Kvarberg

(34:34) Summary

(35:57) CN's comments

(36:21) Wise AI support for government decision-making — Ashwin Acharya and Michaelah Gertz-Billingsley

(36:29) Summary

(37:35) CN's comments

(38:04) Machines and moral judgement — Jacob Sparks

(38:10) Summary

(39:02) CN's comments

(40:00) The purpose of philosophical AI will be: to orient ourselves in thinking — Maximilian Noichl

(40:09) Summary

(40:49) CN's comments

(41:12) BS's comments

(41:40) Cross-context deduction: on the capability necessary for LLM-philosophers — Rio Popper and Clem von Stengel

(41:50) Summary

(42:40) CN's comments

(43:40) DM's comments

(46:21) Evolutionary perspectives on AI values — Maria Avramidou

(46:27) Summary

(47:16) CN's comments

(48:05) BS's comments

(48:14) Tentatively against making AIs wise — Oscar Delaney

(48:20) Summary

(49:18) CN's comments

(49:53) Concluding thoughts

(50:21) BS's thoughts

(53:27) DM's thoughts

(55:50) AS's thoughts

(57:35) Acknowledgements

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First published: October 28th, 2024

Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hiuTzNBqG2EYg6qM5/winners-of-the-essay-competition-on-the-automation-of-wisdom)

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