Man this is such a big issue with the Sequences. Like, “Is that your true rejection” is a concept that I use very often: when I decide to not do something, I would sometimes go “hmm, what’s the real reason I don’t want to do this?” I believe that we often come up with nice-sounding reasons to not do this that are totally unrelated to our true motivations, and noticing this is an important rationalist skill.
But “Is that your true rejection” is also just Eliezer complaining about how people wouldn’t listen to him because he doesn’t have a PhD, and him saying “I bet you wouldn’t listen, even if I had one!!” Sure grandpa let’s get you to bed
New cause area: translate all EY’s writing into Basic English. Only half-joke. And it’s not only about Yudkowsky.
I think I will actually do something like this with some text for testing purposes.
We’re actually doing this with the Arbital Alignment articles
I don’t do this on purpose but I feel like 90% of what I write about AI is something Eliezer already said at some point.
many such cases
Finally, a cause area that LLMs can just solve. Looking forward to the new version of readthesequences, expect with style transfer.
Man this is such a big issue with the Sequences. Like, “Is that your true rejection” is a concept that I use very often: when I decide to not do something, I would sometimes go “hmm, what’s the real reason I don’t want to do this?” I believe that we often come up with nice-sounding reasons to not do this that are totally unrelated to our true motivations, and noticing this is an important rationalist skill.
But “Is that your true rejection” is also just Eliezer complaining about how people wouldn’t listen to him because he doesn’t have a PhD, and him saying “I bet you wouldn’t listen, even if I had one!!”
Sure grandpa let’s get you to bedWhat it needs is not simpler words, but explicit type-annotations.
Most people don’t understand the concept of type-annotation.
I think it’s mostly not about simpler words, but about simpler sentences, actually.
i think, reduction of abstractions