A factor for why children are becoming less independent in the US might be car-centric city design. With unsafe streets, and no way to walk to school, friends or after-school activities, parents have no choice but to drive them around. Not Just Bikes has a great video on this
Bary Levy
Might also be interesting to look at this from a Learned Helplessness point of view. Especially with helicopter parenting. Perhaps children aren’t learning to solve their own problems independenly. I wouldn’t be surprised if this contributes to the mental health epidemic.
ChatGPT Plugins—The Beginning of the End
I actually don’t think it has much impact on superintelligence. I shared this mostly because I thought it’s a cool idea that we can implement now and can later be turned into a policy. Compared to existing policy proposals that don’t limit training/usage, I think this can have a much larger impact
I want to generally encourage this kind of experiment-and-publish-quickly project. This might require a post of its own, but as someone with a background in both hacking and entrepreneurship, this kind of quick feedback loop is, in my opinion, an incredible strength of both, and I hope can be used to accelerate scientific progress, which is exactly what we need in alignment.
I’ve seen in the term “AI Explainability” floating around in the mainstream ML community. Is there a major difference between that and what we in the AI Safety community call Interpretability?