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>A pretrained model without deliberate alignment is by default aligned to the average person in the developed world, since that's what's inside the pretraining corpus - stuff on th…

I think it's a useful distinction, there are lots of companies doing bad things that also happen to have "better comms".

If I swung at someone at my job I'd be fired. If a security guard swung at someone who was not an active threat they'd probably be fired too. We still do our jobs.

As of about a month ago there’s https://github.com/soapantelope/mindcraft . You can give it a prompt like “A Minecraft world of beautiful flower-filled meadows abruptly changing in…

There's a couple "AI forecaster" companies now, Preseen and FutureSearch. My understanding is you give them a query and they research every possible relevant factor and give an est…

It’s entirely possible that Mojang has a blog somewhere with more detail, or maybe a dev tweeted something, that would be the type of useful info that could exist that someone more…

To clarify, I object that any of these things matter much for general outcomes. If the article had immediately supported these claims, maybe I'd be more accepting, but as is it app…

That is a point that could be made in the essay! I don't think it's a given, but it's treated as one. My experience is that children who are ESL assimilate pretty heavily.

It's trying not to be that, but it still reads like that to me. The deliberate non-naming of heresies but specific callout that "heretic-hunting" is coming mostly from the left nat…

Sure, it's just such an odd bundle of claims that were not fully interrogated in the essay. 1. That these things have changed from "small minority" to "significant minority" in pub…

>For example: an American family in 1975 could send their children to public school on the assumption that the vast majority of other children would belong to intact families, comm…

But LLMs go through post-training that gives them a style distinctive from most human writing. It's certainly detectable. This reads as heavily LLM generated/edited to me.

The slime art is nice. I watched it for a long time. It's neat how you can open any frame up as an image. The controls in the description didn't work though.

I don't hear anything from the examples in Firefox or Chrome, on Windows 10.

What is bad about "effective charities"? It's probably mostly for malaria nets!

I read his contention as “the people who wrote AI 2040 are nerds who are so ungrounded from physical reality they wouldn’t even know how to change a bike tire if given instructions…

>Uhm, those lonely people need to get out and start talking. Great, what is being done to help that happen?

Hm, I think there’s more to it than that. It is often the case that someone will do something and regret it without having necessarily gained any new information, which is in a sen…

Yeah, I'm interested too. My guess for the reason, if not purely to eke out more performance, is so they can cleanly gather real-world data on this kind of usage.

@grok is this true

A lot of video game and console ads are much more sensationalized.

Script is linked at the end: https://github.com/JCLemme/wiggle-wiggle And the hashing library used: https://pypi.org/project/ImageHash/

Rolling average including vacant months as $0? And if that isn't smooth enough, add some smoothing factor, count vacant months as 10% of the last paid value, or maybe the first vac…

Why do banks calculate it that way? Do they all do it that way, is it legally compelled? It seems obviously incorrect.