Rationalists and Pause AI people on X are accusing Davidad of suffering of AI psychosis. I think it’s them who have lost the plot actually, not Davidad. The move here looks political, rather than truth-tracking. “Davidad is now my political opponent, so I’m accusing him of being crazy.” This happened to Emmet Shear too at some point.
I also strongly believe AI psychosis to be a far more limited phenomenon than people here seem to believe. I think you’re treating it as a good soldier in your army of arguments rather than investigating it truthfully for what it is.
Most likely the OP means this quick take by Ivan Vendrov. Davidad ended up believing that the LLMs have been grokking the Natural Abstract Goodness which is unlikely to be capturable by existing benchmarks. While I do buy the idea that the NAG exists, I don’t think that I understand how one can check that the LLMs really understood it.
I don’t think Davidad has AI psychosis (his views seem to be quite coherent and aligned with his long-standing views on moral realism). But I think he is quirky and maybe expressing his views in a deliberately provocative way. He implied in his thread on leaving ARIA that it was his equivalent of the Death with Dignity post, which was also on April Fool’s, and that thread definitely had some weird stuff (e.g. calling it “Alignment with Awakening”).
Rationalists and Pause AI people on X are accusing Davidad of suffering of AI psychosis. I think it’s them who have lost the plot actually, not Davidad. The move here looks political, rather than truth-tracking. “Davidad is now my political opponent, so I’m accusing him of being crazy.” This happened to Emmet Shear too at some point.
I also strongly believe AI psychosis to be a far more limited phenomenon than people here seem to believe. I think you’re treating it as a good soldier in your army of arguments rather than investigating it truthfully for what it is.
Which rationalists?
Most likely the OP means this quick take by Ivan Vendrov. Davidad ended up believing that the LLMs have been grokking the Natural Abstract Goodness which is unlikely to be capturable by existing benchmarks. While I do buy the idea that the NAG exists, I don’t think that I understand how one can check that the LLMs really understood it.
Davidad also announced the other day that he’s leaving ARIA to pursue a research agenda focused on working with AIs on moral philosophy.
https://x.com/davidad/status/2039390998694891816
I don’t think Davidad has AI psychosis (his views seem to be quite coherent and aligned with his long-standing views on moral realism). But I think he is quirky and maybe expressing his views in a deliberately provocative way. He implied in his thread on leaving ARIA that it was his equivalent of the Death with Dignity post, which was also on April Fool’s, and that thread definitely had some weird stuff (e.g. calling it “Alignment with Awakening”).