I expect that within the year, covert bots powered by GPT2 and its successors will make up a substantial proportion of the comments in at least some internet forums. It will not be much longer before they are extensively deployed as disinformation tools. Weeding them out will be the next Internet security challenge.
Interesting. I really like the idea of a new solution to the problem of Newcomb’s problem. I’m not sure of the implications of that approach, but I would also like to mention that the “decision problem” being described is not a problem from a utilitarian point of view.
What might someone else think of the idea of it?
I don’t seem to know whether these discussions are supposed to be even a thing, just as my opinion is not strongly held by non-conformists of that type. I’d like to see if they get the broader view of the problem in any way that will make it more efficient for me to go through my life doing things like this.
Thanks for the offer!
One question of the piece is, would you like to help contribute to the project of AI alignment or its associated rationality cause or is there a set of ways to make the AI alignment or rationality community more effective? If such a thing does not exist, can you tell me if this is an answer to your question?
It seems to me like GTP2 seems on first glance like it’s trolling with low self awareness. There might be subreddits that can effectively destroyed by it. It might also be weaponized to kill 4chan.
We’ve considered replacing the word ‘culture’ with the word ‘cult’ (e.g. ‘cult movement that leads to the promotion of ‘more clean and productive ideas’ by those who have strong opinions on the subject). It turns out that ‘culture’ itself is a better word: one of its goals is to attract a disproportionate share of newcomers to the ‘culture’ movement, and one of its goals is to make them feel more like everyone in the ‘culture’ crowd is being a part of the same culture.
It would be nice to have a word ‘culture’ that could be written down and used on the level of ‘culture’ or ‘culture’. But for me—it seems to me—an ‘culture’ was created to fit that description. I would like it to describe its goals in more concise ways, if we can do so.
The problem, then is that we’re using ‘culture’ wrong. Which is why, when we use ‘culture’ it’s used to refer to its more general properties—but that’s because of a lack of explicit mechanisms for categorization of concepts from the same cluster. Even we can’t try to find out whether someone is an effective culture-keeper. If we find out we’re wrong, we need to talk about it more.
Another thought that came to mind was that the purpose of ‘culture’ may be clear and intentional. It’s possible for it to ‘be’ a new word—which is what it means—instead of a place where we have an alternative to make.
So if we think too strongly that ‘culture’ is a fine word, that’s the conclusion I would want to draw if we were to attempt to make a better and more accurate description of a word and its meaning.
I know I’m not an idealist, but I can easily think of some examples of its use. I am not a definition, a cached thought. I believe the main purpose of one’s word comes from the word itself … in cases where it’s not referring to a word or value it often seems a little something. And in cases like this one where there was one word in the cluster, there’s another word in the cluster which is a little something but a value. I think this was the conclusion I would have reached, for a ‘culture’.
It can be somewhat confusing to apply a ‘culture’ concept to a concrete thing you do and say and say that might or might not be
I expect that within the year, covert bots powered by GPT2 and its successors will make up a substantial proportion of the comments in at least some internet forums. It will not be much longer before they are extensively deployed as disinformation tools. Weeding them out will be the next Internet security challenge.
Interesting. I really like the idea of a new solution to the problem of Newcomb’s problem. I’m not sure of the implications of that approach, but I would also like to mention that the “decision problem” being described is not a problem from a utilitarian point of view.
What might someone else think of the idea of it?
I don’t seem to know whether these discussions are supposed to be even a thing, just as my opinion is not strongly held by non-conformists of that type. I’d like to see if they get the broader view of the problem in any way that will make it more efficient for me to go through my life doing things like this.
Thanks for the offer!
One question of the piece is, would you like to help contribute to the project of AI alignment or its associated rationality cause or is there a set of ways to make the AI alignment or rationality community more effective? If such a thing does not exist, can you tell me if this is an answer to your question?
It seems to me like GTP2 seems on first glance like it’s trolling with low self awareness. There might be subreddits that can effectively destroyed by it. It might also be weaponized to kill 4chan.
I sort of assumed that if 4chan could be destroyed by this sort of thing it already would have been?
We’ve considered replacing the word ‘culture’ with the word ‘cult’ (e.g. ‘cult movement that leads to the promotion of ‘more clean and productive ideas’ by those who have strong opinions on the subject). It turns out that ‘culture’ itself is a better word: one of its goals is to attract a disproportionate share of newcomers to the ‘culture’ movement, and one of its goals is to make them feel more like everyone in the ‘culture’ crowd is being a part of the same culture.
It would be nice to have a word ‘culture’ that could be written down and used on the level of ‘culture’ or ‘culture’. But for me—it seems to me—an ‘culture’ was created to fit that description. I would like it to describe its goals in more concise ways, if we can do so.
The problem, then is that we’re using ‘culture’ wrong. Which is why, when we use ‘culture’ it’s used to refer to its more general properties—but that’s because of a lack of explicit mechanisms for categorization of concepts from the same cluster. Even we can’t try to find out whether someone is an effective culture-keeper. If we find out we’re wrong, we need to talk about it more.
Another thought that came to mind was that the purpose of ‘culture’ may be clear and intentional. It’s possible for it to ‘be’ a new word—which is what it means—instead of a place where we have an alternative to make.
So if we think too strongly that ‘culture’ is a fine word, that’s the conclusion I would want to draw if we were to attempt to make a better and more accurate description of a word and its meaning.
I know I’m not an idealist, but I can easily think of some examples of its use. I am not a definition, a cached thought. I believe the main purpose of one’s word comes from the word itself … in cases where it’s not referring to a word or value it often seems a little something. And in cases like this one where there was one word in the cluster, there’s another word in the cluster which is a little something but a value. I think this was the conclusion I would have reached, for a ‘culture’.
It can be somewhat confusing to apply a ‘culture’ concept to a concrete thing you do and say and say that might or might not be