Student in fundamental and applied mathematics, interested in theoretical computer science and AI alignment
Technoprogressive, biocosmist, rationalist, defensive accelerationist, longtermist
Matrice Jacobine
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I did initially put the link as + Linkpost, but the ForumMagnum editor seems to casually delete it half the time. It’s unfortunately not the first time this happened to me.
Atomically precise mechanosynthesis of carbon structures on hydrogenated Si(100) by inverted-mode STM
“On the Promotion of Safe and Socially Beneficial Artificial Intelligence” by @SethBaum from 2016
It sure would be great if there was a well-funded “AI safety” nonprofit with the goal to be as open as possible about AI research. Anyone considered that?
So… what’s the general take on the hantavirus outbreak?
I don’t think it shows that. It arguably suggests that abundant pretraining data doesn’t matter as much as one could think. As opposed to good pretraining data.
I think it straightforwardly show the reverse (good pretraining data doesn’t matter as much as one could think, but abundant pretraining data does)? Olmedo himself notes: “What holds the 1930 model back is that it is severely undertrained (only 260B tokens), rather than its pre-training data.”
I presume that the codebases + agentic coding transcripts that they SFT’d on were high quality, right?
SFT is posttraining??
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This is interesting because, it is not discussed enough that AlphaGo worked the same way LLMs work: it was pretrained on a large dataset of human moves, then posttrained through reinforcement learning. The shift to AlphaZero removed the pretraining, showing that pretraining data didn’t matter at all for the model’s capabilities (quite the contrary, AlphaZero is superior to AlphaGo). While this coding model is still pretrained, it also shows that good pretraining data doesn’t matter nearly as much as one could think.
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I believe, from memory, that Zajko identified herself as a woman in court, but I cannot access to the relevant Maryland local media rn bc it blocks European countries and the Internet Archive is down rn. For second-hand evidence e.g. here refers to Zajko as “a cis woman involved in the affair”.
This is interesting in that the most serious violence against you came from Zajko. What was Zajko’s motivation here? Did he wanted to protect CFAR/MIRI? How did he came up living with Ziz, when he was that antagonistic against you?
Zajko is a cis woman FTR.
Were you a source for the original Rolling Stone article?
(Wait, considering Vaniver has commented here too, what comment do you mean, and in what direction do you think the difference is?)
Yeah I see. Cretarei say they don’t want to talk about Ziz again after that, but I see how you could have a broader definition of what “writings about the Irish” mean in the analogy (e.g. discussion of psychology).
I assume prosecutors are waiting for less circumstantial evidence to emerge?
A murder trial could take years and years to fully resolve IIUC.
Ziz and Zajko aren’t charged with murder.
I do not think it is true that the Ziz crew “are still committing crimes” or that “their violence and retaliation is not contained”. I am also not quite sure what you are suggesting with the mention of Snyder. I would point to @AprilSR’s comment here (and subsequent subthread). Slimepriestess isn’t banned, Chase isn’t banned.
@Vaniver do you still hold that “Less Wrong the website should accept letters from murderers in asylums”?
Maybe? Sorry for assuming people weren’t disingenuous trolls trying to derail a very serious topic involving several actual completed murders and suicides for their personal political vendettas.
My first Fable benchmark was to one-shot turning `emacs -batch -l dunnet` into a graphical adventure game and it hit the safety guardrails bc one of the puzzles involve nitroglycerine 😭