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Not a PR stunt. It's an experiment of letting models run wild and form their own mini-society. There really wasn't any human involved in sending this email, and nobody really has a…

To be clear, this email really had basically zero human involvement in it. It's the result of an experiment of letting language models run wild and exploring the associated social …

Alas, AI-written. Makes it much harder to trust.

Seems to be a common term for longer writing programs. At least when we did user-interviews, people thought "retreat" would imply like a week or two at most, and also imply a more …

That's not true! The minimum is $2,000 if you want to source your own housing (and for example stay with a friend in the area). The food cost is just fully straightforwardly passed…

Oh, hmm, I hadn't thought about that association. I don't think "retreat" is the right choice for a 4 week program, I think "retreat" implies a shorter duration. We played around w…

My guess is not much? Because we are doing rolling applications, so we are somehow trying to judge how many good applicants in total we are going to get (classical secretary proble…

Makes sense, it certainly is the case that these programs tend to pay people, though I have kind of learned to treat that with a bit of suspicion (having run lots of programs of th…

Yep, something like that.

Definitely not "same subject" if we are thinking of something as narrow as "Frontend development" but I would like many people to find a niche/style/perspective they feel at home i…

You use it more like a Patreon. I don't think it's easy, but it works for at least some people like Scott at AstralCodexTen (who arguably has some paywalled essays, but it's extrem…

Not yet! My guess is Substack is the best choice for most people, just because it's easy to set up, has a bunch of UI problems solved, and has a non-terrible way to get towards get…

Interesting idea. Some thoughts: I think the volume would really be a lot. For the program we'll be dealing with 900 (!) blogposts (30 residents times 30 blogposts). I doubt someth…

We were thinking about whether there is any way to do some kind of income sharing agreement, but given how messy those tend to be (see all the Lambda school stuff as an example) we…

> It'd be fun to join in from afar by pledging to do the same things, but for nowhere near the cost. Yep, Bay Area rent and cost of living is a big pain. $1,500 for housing for a m…

Definitely not trying to hide it! I do want to not scare people who aren't into LessWrong and similar things, as I would really like this residency to be less opinionated about stu…

Oh, hey HN! I run Lightcone Infrastructure which runs this residency (as well as LessWrong.com and the venue, Lighthaven.space). Happy to answer questions if anyone has any. Ben (o…

Head of LessWrong and generally active rationality community leader here. Happy to answer any questions people have. These people haven't been around the community for a long time,…

I mean, they seemed kind of visibly crazy, often saying threatening things to others, talking about doing crazy experiments with their sleep, often insinuating violence. They were …

Hello, can confirm, criticism is like the bread and butter of LW, lol. I have very extensively criticized tons of people in the extend rationality ecosystem, and I have also never …

Text-version of all the emails that this article refers to: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5jjk4CDnj9tA7ugxr/openai-ema...

"We plan to advance capabilities as fast as possible while making sure our safety always remains ahead." That sounds like a weird kind of lip service to safety. It really seems to …

The first sentence seems fine (humans are somewhat obviously just on the cusp of general intelligence, in evolutionary terms). The second sentence starts with a "perhaps", so isn't…