M. Y. Zuo(Michael Y. Zuo)

[Question] What’s the ev­i­dence that LLMs will scale up effi­ciently be­yond GPT4? i.e. couldn’t GPT5, etc., be very in­effi­cient?

[Question] When build­ing an or­ga­ni­za­tion, there are lots of ways to pre­vent fi­nan­cial cor­rup­tion of per­son­nel. But what are the ways to pre­vent cor­rup­tion via so­cial sta­tus, poli­ti­cal power, etc.?

[Question] Is there a widely ac­cepted met­ric for ‘gen­uine­ness’ in in­ter­per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tion?

Cred­ible, costly, pseudonymity

[Question] Prac­ti­cal ways to ac­tu­al­ize our be­liefs into con­crete bets over a longer time hori­zon?

Anal­y­sis of GPT-4 com­pe­tence in as­sess­ing com­plex le­gal lan­guage: Ex­am­ple of Bill C-11 of the Cana­dian Par­li­a­ment. - Part 1

[Question] Is ChatGPT (or other LLMs) more ‘sen­tient’/​’con­scious/​etc. then a baby with­out a brain?

Google an­nounces ‘Bard’ pow­ered by LaMDA

Peter Thiel’s speech at Oxford De­bat­ing Union on tech­nolog­i­cal stag­na­tion, Nu­clear weapons, COVID, En­vi­ron­ment, Align­ment, ‘anti-anti anti-anti-clas­si­cal liber­al­ism’, Bostrom, LW, etc.

Bounded dis­trust or Bounded trust?

Ve­hi­cle Pla­toon­ing—a real world ex­am­i­na­tion of the difficul­ties in coordination

Self-defeat­ing con­spir­acy the­o­rists and their theories

Do meta-memes and meta-an­timemes ex­ist? e.g. ‘The map is not the ter­ri­tory’ is also a map

[Question] How does one rec­og­nize in­for­ma­tion and differ­en­ti­ate it from noise?

Let­ter from lead­ing Soviet Aca­demi­ci­ans to party and gov­ern­ment lead­ers of the Soviet Union re­gard­ing signs of de­cline and struc­tural prob­lems of the eco­nomic-poli­ti­cal sys­tem (1970)

Some re­flec­tions on the LW com­mu­nity af­ter sev­eral months of ac­tive engagement

An ar­gu­ment against ex­ces­sive con­sump­tion of coffee from 1674

The Defeat of Rea­son?

[Question] Every­one’s mired in the deep­est con­fu­sion, some of the time?

[Question] How could a friendly AI deal with hu­mans try­ing to sab­o­tage it? (like how pre­sent day in­ter­net trolls in­tro­duce such prob­lems)