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Milli | Martin
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Berlin – ACX Meetups Everywhere Spring 2024
A New Paradigm For Emotional Work And Mental Health
ChatGPT is using Whisper for speech to text, which is open source and available through OpenAIs APIs.
I personally tried to use more text to speech on my phone, but was annoyed by it and went back to typing.
I’ve heard Whisper is a definite step-up, especially when mixing English and German.
https://openai.com/research/whisper
https://github.com/openai/whisper
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/whisper€: This used to say text to speech.
AI Risk Scenario Roleplay
Berlin AI Alignment Open Meetup October 2023
Hey everyone, I’m amazed with how many people showed up and the atmosphere. I hope you had fun and interesting conversations as well. If you want to be connected to the Berlin Rationality or EA communities, just contact me! Contact: acx-meetups@martinmilbradt.de, t.me/truemilli or @Milli | Martin.
PS.: “My” monthly workshop is happening tomorrow evening, happy to have you: The Art of Difficult Conversations—Workshop.
Quick heads up: Most of the RSVPs are on Meetup.com (26 atm).
Berlin, Germany – ACX Meetups Everywhere Fall 2023
EA Germany has an “Employer of Record” program. Your funding gets put into their account, and they pay your salary from it, formally becoming your employer.
This is probably what you want to google or mention to an organization in the UK. :)
Details (EAD): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EePELRNTrZGHgeJa3oeRdF_rDsN7LesYppQah_zE7g4
Be wary of survivorship bias! Of course, everything that is licensed and proven to work was not at some point. But so is everything that was tried out and ineffective / harmful, and (hopefully) still not licensed.
But things that work, accumulate evidence that they do, and good chances get licensed. That’s the way science works.
I don’t blame anyone for trying things out, in fact we need people who do to figure out what actually works. But it’s also perfectly reasonable not to want to do that.
PSA: If you’re like me, you want to subscribe to the Open Threads Tag, to not miss these: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/open-threads
Useful to keep in mind, especially the point of getting an introduction to the next person.
But I want to point out that it’s also easy to undershoot. Many people hesitate to ask questions or contact new people. It makes me sad when people waste hours on something that I can answer / fix in minutes.
Another thing is to keep time spent / saved in mind. A well crafted message, that’s easy to understand and only requires a short answer, is much harder to write than going back and forth a few times.
If you spend 100x the time you save the other person, it’s probably not worth it in most non-Paul-Christiano-cases.
Thanks for the post, it’s useful to be reminded of every now and then. The first time I thought about it was when thinking about the statement by doctors that “somebodies life expectancy is 6 months”. This also actually means that there is a high chance to die very soon, but if that doesn’t happen they’ll probably live on for many years.
Planning as if they would live for +/- 6 months is useless in that case.
Here’s a form to give the Lightcone team anonymous feedback about this decision (or anything).
The link seems to be missing.
Also: Looking forward to the postmortem.
LessWrong open thread, I love it. I hope they become as lively as the ACX Open Threads (if they have the same intention).
I’m reading the sequences this year (1/day, motivated by this post) and am enjoying it so far. Lmk if I’m wasting my time by not “just” reading the highlights.
PS: In case you or someone you know is looking for a software engineer, here’s my profile: https://cv.martinmilbradt.de/. Preferably freelance, but I’m open to employment if the project is impactful or innovative.
Dang I seem to have not participated.
Can you give the percentiles for people with >130, 140 and 160 IQ (self reported) to determine that the 150 IQ cutoff is not cherry-picked? Does it work like that?
I’m doing it for years already but have not done analysis. My dentist empathized also brushing my gums. GPT has arguments in favor of that when prompted directly.
Has GPT suggested anything unexpected yet?
I don’t know how to make Meditations on Moloch into a video. But it has shaped me deeply and I feel it contains a lot of important lessons that could make or break the future.
Closing paragraph:
He always and everywhere offers the same deal: throw what you love most into the flames, and I can grant you power.
As long as the offer’s open, it will be irresistible. So we need to close the offer. Only another god can kill Moloch. We have one on our side, but he needs our help. We should give it to him.
Ginsberg’s poem famously begins “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”. I am luckier than Ginsberg. I got to see the best minds of my generation identify a problem and get to work.
Thank you for short and sweet the review.
But all the personal connections of the characters before the apocalypse were transient and superficial. Their relationships after the apocalypse aren’t.
I wonder how to get that feeling of deep connectedness (I assume) people in small communities and tribes had in the past. An additional challenge is that it might cause people to care even less about people not in their group.
The close knit group that sticks together through thick and thin is a fantasy of mine that hopefully can be achieved without catastrophe.
Long survey is long.