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I mean... you can't think of any ways that AI could actually generate new value? Or more abstractly, of a way that Jevons' paradox can't apply in the case of AI?

i think by your logic, they only thing that they do that is condescending is to say that an interview is not guaranteed. people are mentioning that they do this for a reason, which…

it's kind of hard to tell what your position is here. should people not ask chatbots how to scrape html? should people not purchase RAM to run chatbots locally?

i think in this thread the goalposts were slowly moved. people were initially talking about success being predicted by having the excess necessary to comfortably take many shots on…

I'm pretty sure there's no reason that Anthropic has to do research on open models, it's just that they produced their result on open models so that you can reproduce their result …

Hmm, that might be possible, but that's essentially not what I assumed. At the very least, they operate on the same hardware, so Autopilot is in some sense "intentionally bad" as a…

I am sure that there are some people who exhibit the behaviors you're describing, but I really don't think the group as a whole is disinterested in prior work or discussion of phil…

Here's a collection of debates about that topic: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/85mfawamKdxzzaPeK/any-good-c... I personally don't have that much of an interest in this topic, so …

I am really not sure where you get any of these ideas. For each of your critiques, there are not only discussions, but taxonomies of compendiums of discussions about the topics at …

Well, yeah, I think it's a pretty socially unaware thing to say about yourself out loud, so that's a pretty strong filter there. It's rather different for a community to say that's…

I suppose you're right about that, so I can't make the argument go through by saying "mathematics" vs "philosophy". Maybe what I should say instead is that as some dialectics advan…

I think you're conflating different groups of people pretty severely. "shunned" in particular is a really strong word, e.g, global health and biosecurity are two of the named categ…

Well, on a meta level, I think their community has decided that in general it's better to post (and subsequently be able to discuss) ideas that one is not yet very confident about,…

Aside from the remark given in the other reply to your comment, I wonder what the standard is: how quickly should a community appear to correct its incorrect beliefs for them to no…

> They don't really ever show a sense of "hey, I've got a thought, maybe I haven't considered all angles to it, maybe I'm wrong - but here it is". The type of people that would be …

Well, sure, but mathematics is the domain for which this holds maybe the most true out of any. It's less true for fields which are not as old. I'm not sure if this counterpoint gen…

This is such a pointless, tired take. You want to say this guy's experience isn't reproducible? That's one thing, but that's probably not the case unless you're assuming they're pr…

I think the idea is, why would the visualization be so intentionally bad in the Autopilot version as to not detect the kids entirely? What benefit does that confer, or, from anothe…

I would like to understand how you ideally imagine a person solving issues of this type. I'm for understanding things instead of hacking at them in general, and this tendency incre…

I relate to this a bit, and on a meta level I think the only way out is through. I'm trying to embrace optimizing the big picture process for my enjoyment and for positive and long…

I basically agree, but with the caveat that the tradeoff is the opposite for a bunch of tedious things that I don't want to invest time into getting better at, or which maybe I onl…

Well said, these things are actually in a tradeoff with each other. I feel like a lot of people somehow imagine that you could have the best of both, which is incoherent short of m…

Well said about the fact that they can't introspect, and I agree with your tip about starting with fresh context, and about when to give up. I feel like this thread is full of stra…

Well, in that case, the LLM company has made a mistake in marketing their product, but that's not the same as the question of whether the product works.

I somehow can't reply to your child comment. It depends on whether the cost of search or of verification dominates. When searching for common consumer products, yeah, this isn't li…