He then asked a really pretty smart language model to confirm that indeed your post does not straightforwardly answer the questions in the post.
Yes, sometimes language models are too dumb to make obvious inferences, even today, but it’s relatively rare. But they clearly and obviously go beyond “scanning for keywords”.
the issue with the questions is that they are not about the topics covered in the essay, so of course an LLM wouldnt find the relevant answers. try instead asking whether such questions are relevant to the essay, or whether the essay explicitly denies the framing they embody; the answer might surprise you!
Doom arguments usually need the systems we actually build to achieve radical capability while preserving misaligned and, crucially, completely stupid goals.
This isn’t a random sentence, it’s a main piece of context you provide for why you are discussing the main thesis of the post. As such, it’s a useful sentence that readers use to understand what you’re saying. But since your statement seems false according to the informed understanding of the meaning of the paperclip example, it raises ambiguity; perhaps you’re simply uninformed, or perhaps you meant something nonobvious by the phrase. Hence asking you to clarify.
He has read the post. What are you talking about?
He then asked a really pretty smart language model to confirm that indeed your post does not straightforwardly answer the questions in the post.
Yes, sometimes language models are too dumb to make obvious inferences, even today, but it’s relatively rare. But they clearly and obviously go beyond “scanning for keywords”.
uh, he said he had not.
the issue with the questions is that they are not about the topics covered in the essay, so of course an LLM wouldnt find the relevant answers. try instead asking whether such questions are relevant to the essay, or whether the essay explicitly denies the framing they embody; the answer might surprise you!
You wrote
This isn’t a random sentence, it’s a main piece of context you provide for why you are discussing the main thesis of the post. As such, it’s a useful sentence that readers use to understand what you’re saying. But since your statement seems false according to the informed understanding of the meaning of the paperclip example, it raises ambiguity; perhaps you’re simply uninformed, or perhaps you meant something nonobvious by the phrase. Hence asking you to clarify.