concernedoptimist

Alignment & Interpretability

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@AgustinLebron3 @slatestarcodex That is not the purpose. That is a means.

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@AgustinLebron3 @slatestarcodex 'for the express purpose of'? Isn't that just blatantly false?

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@ZyMazza I think this is self-evident, the root of the disagreement seems to be where that point is. Sure, superintelligence is not omnipotence, but could it be that it leads to so much more power than we have that it looks like it from where we stand.

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@robinhanson @lisperati This is already a far cry from 'crazy to expect'. Note also that AIs are far from animals.

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@nickcammarata I do not notice this in Claudes at all...

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@Sauers_ @KTibow Whether they understand strongly depends on the middle schoolers in question. Given recent reports on (lack of) literacy of bachelor students, I wouldn't hold out hope for most of them.

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@binarybits Thank you!

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@teodorio @stanislavfort Isn't that a pretty big "benefit"? The lack of immediacy with climate change seems to be behind the failure in us doing anything meaningful about it

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@RobertTalisse Huh guess I missed out during my PhD

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@MPorkholm @PaulSkallas @firstnamelastga Hockey the counterexample?

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@DKokotajlo @ShakeelHashim I believe this is mainly not a point about diffusion lags but about the difficulty of measuring proficiency at real-world tasks, i.e., the inadequacy of benchmarks.

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@edzitron Which predictions made in AI 2027 do you think have been shown false? Which have been shown true?

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@edzitron @IbrahimDagher20 This is often true for many metrics relating to hard to measure things, yes.

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@BaringCBH @IbrahimDagher20 @edzitron That is not what "AI slop" typically means, which might have led to confusion.

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@soully @dav64635 @Callum_TH @DeptfordWife1 You don't know that

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@soully @dav64635 @Callum_TH @DeptfordWife1 They can move and others will come! Beautiful, isn't it? And given the higher rent, they'll be better people as well. More cafes, less chicken shops

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@soully @dav64635 @Callum_TH @DeptfordWife1 For those who live there.

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@QiaochuYuan @Romy_Holland Tried Fable with the prompt in the quoted tweet and it was definitely not chill

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@acidiclemon2 @Michael_Druggan @famexbt Apparently around 1% of workers make it in Texas, presumably his point