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Damn.
edit: I just removed it instead.
I mean, not super impressed with their relationship with OpenAI re: frontier math. The org has a bad smell to me, but I won’t claim to know the whole of what they’ve done.
Tbh, I just needed some text before the image. But I have negative sentiment for both Epoch and OpenPhil. From my perspective, creating benchmarks to measure things adjacent to RSI is likely net negative, and teetering on the edge of gain of function. Such measures so often become a target. And it should not come as surprise, I think, that key Epoch people just went off and activity started working on this stuff.
Hat in hand and on bended knee,
to Fate, I beg, “Ask not of me!”
to do that thing (so horrid true)
In my secret heart I long to do.
[title redacted]: [click me to see image]
I was not aware of him. But he looks pretty cool. That future-speak stuff is a pretty common trick in science fiction. Gibson is particularly famous for it.
should be fixed now, thx
Were I to do that, my very soul would wither and die.
Good comment
Dwarkesh asked a very interesting question in his Sutton interview, which Sutton wasn’t really interested in replying to.
Dwarkesh notes that one idea for why the the bitter lesson was true is because general methods got to ride the wave of exponential computing power while knowledge engineering could not, as labour was comparatively fixed in supply. He then notices that post AGI labour supply will increase at a very rapid pace. And so he wonders, once the labour constraint is solved post AGI will GOFAI make a comeback? For we will then be able to afford the proverbial three billion philosophers writing lisp predicates or whatever various other kinds of high-labour AI techniques are possible.
I am imperfectly instruction tuned.
Can’t collaborate with the competition!
Nah.
So I wrote it. Am currious to have your opinion before I publish. DM me if interested.
Are you Dutch by any chance?
tbh, I think you just saw an attempt at art you don’t like and you’re unlikely to get a satisfactory response. The only fiction I have written which I suspect you won’t find disgusting is this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/H4kadKrC2xLK24udn/the-maker-of-mind
lol
Thanks! I am writing every morning to build up my stamina for Inkhaven.
I never thought I was anxious, but my sister pointed out I have structured my life to an unusual degree to avoid stimuli that could create anxiety: I don’t drive, I worked from home my entire career even before it was cool and at a dev job at a company of the ideal size to allow me to avoid office politics or excessive meetings, I spend most my time reading alone, my life is highly routine, I often eat the same foods day after day until I tire and move on to the next thing, and I travel rarely.
I have no idea if she is right or not. And if true, I am unsure if it matters if such things grant me some peace. But the idea that the shape of one’s life may be, in part, an unconscious treatment for mental flaws is a disquieting one. And it may be worth asking your self: looking at the structure of my life, what symptoms might I be unconsciously treating?