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Also called the door-in-the-face method.

Sounds like classic crowding-out of intrinsic motivation. There's a story, I can't find the page at the moment, of someone who was getting pranked all the time (his house TPed or e…

Human lockpickers use feedback when picking. I'm wondering if a bot could do the same - e.g. measuring the travel distance to find a binding pin, or the resistance to moving the wi…

It's surprising that series and movies with gazillion-dollar budgets don't seem to have money for decent writers. About the only explanation I can think of is that the way the seri…

> And the idea of spammers using bot nets (therefore not paying for computer themselves) would be less relevant to LLM scraping. It's possible that the services that reward users f…

There's this paper from 2004: "Proof-of-Work Proves Not to Work": https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/proofwork.pdf The conclusion back then was that it's impossible to make a threshold…

That then raises the question: what is a unit of communication? If communication is 20% verbal and 80% nonverbal, and if communication is very nonlinear in understanding (as with y…

It's more likely a reference to France currently being the Fifth Republic.[1] The transition from the Fourth to the Fifth happened in 1958 without much violence. [1] https://thegoo…

It's probably getting amplified by the RLHF stage because the earlier models didn't do that. But that just shifts the question to "what kind of reviewer actually likes 'it's not ju…

It might be that democratic countries are more resilient to that kind of effect because (and to the degree that) they already decouple productive power from representation. E.g. a …

Doesn't Norway bring that conclusion in doubt? The state gets massive revenue from oil as well as oil-financed investments, but is still very much a democracy.[0] [0] https://ourwo…

> Every other field is aligned "aligned" when the humans in it are "aligned", That doesn't seem like the whole story. Pick two countries, for instance, one of which has evolved to …

I just have to find a way to deal with all this prisoner's honey first.

It's considered mysterious because of the hard problem of consciousness. Describing a mechanism that could be considered analogous to consciousness "from the outside" is pretty eas…