2012: ideas & lineages
Selekoa’s 9 ideas & lineages records dated 2012, in date order, of 11 in all topics.
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Ideas & lineages 9 records
June 2012
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“Reply to Holden on 'Tool AI'” (2012-06-12) credits Eliezer Yudkowsky as its author. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the day
The post “Reply to Holden on 'Tool AI'” (2012-06-12) contests Y15. Replies to Holden Karnofsky's 2012 proposal of 'tool AI' that displays plans instead of acting. Argues that specifying such a system formally reintroduces optimisation over the user and the world, with unintended consequences. Evidence ↗Yudkowsky, Reply to Holden on 'Tool AI' (2012) →Claim page →
December 2012
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“Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery” (2012-12) credits Jeffrey D. Sachs as one of its 2 authors. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the month
“Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery” (2012-12) credits Laurence J. Kotlikoff as one of its 2 authors. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the month
Sachs and Kotlikoff, “Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery” (2012-12) articulates M01. 'Smart machines' enter the model as machinery whose efficiency parameter u rises, a factor-augmenting technical change in a nested CES production function with unskilled and skilled labour. Evidence ↗Sachs and Kotlikoff, Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery (2012) →Claim page →
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Sachs and Kotlikoff, “Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery” (2012-12) bears on M02. The abstract describes the model's mechanism: smart machines substitute for unskilled labour and complement skilled labour. Evidence ↗Sachs and Kotlikoff, Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery (2012) →Claim page →
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Sachs and Kotlikoff, “Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery” (2012-12) articulates M06a. The authors argue, against the Cobb-Douglas presumption that technical change raises all factor returns, that better machines can lower unskilled wages. Evidence ↗Sachs and Kotlikoff, Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery (2012) →Claim page →
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Sachs and Kotlikoff, “Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery” (2012-12) articulates M06b. Rejecting 'smashing the machines', the authors propose intergenerational tax-and-transfer policy (in the model, a wealth levy on the old funding transfers to the young) to make all generations gain. Evidence ↗Sachs and Kotlikoff, Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery (2012) →Claim page →
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Sachs and Kotlikoff, “Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery” (2012-12) bears on M09. The authors characterise their profession as reluctant to treat machines as competitors for labour; elsewhere (pdf p. 7) they attribute this to the record of real wage growth and reliance on Cobb-Douglas production functions. Evidence ↗Sachs and Kotlikoff, Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery (2012) →Claim page →