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Here's one (CIFSwitch) from a couple of days ago: https://heyitsas.im/posts/cifswitch/

Performance and efficiency are important, but we need you to invent the monitoring tools and visualisations that will underpin alignment!

Yes there are metabolic changes in the mother herself during pregnancy but that's not why it's hard to research. The main fear is that drugs will cross the placenta and affect the …

Maybe not due to attention, but it is certainly possible for chat content to get leaked into other conversations due to bugs in the stack, and in fact it has happened before. https…

In my case I had hundreds of invoices in a not-very-consistent PDF format which I had contemporaneously tracked in spreadsheets. After data extraction (pdftotext + OpenAI API), I c…

If you're trying to say that immunostimulant is a term of art distinct from immune checkpoint inhibitor, then fair point. But what it seems like you're saying is checkpoint inhibit…

Immunostimulant is a reasonable way to put it: it takes the brakes off one part of the immune system. (Similarly, we call caffeine a central nervous system stimulant and it works b…

I have very quickly picked up the habit of pasting snippets of my code into GPT-4 and simply asking "Why is this not working?" Almost every time, it succinctly explains the apparen…

I was dying on the GPT-4 API waitlist too. I built a proof-of-concept with GPT-3.5, got some ada embeddings, played around with some common patterns for a couple of weeks, spent le…

Same for me. I see it as the combination of 5 things: 1. It lowers the activation energy of getting started; for me motivation tends to come after action, and it gets me to that po…

I just spent a month doing an E-Business Suite platform migration and it was very similar: follow the step-by-step instructions to apply patches and run commands. Each patch has a …

It's ok, because they often make you give your postcode as a second factor.

As a native speaker of English, I didn't know about mass nouns until I was an adult and I was trying to explain to a non-native speaker that they were using "the" too much.

ProxyJump (or the -J option as a shortcut) plus TCP port forwarding (-L/-R) is ridiculously powerful. You can chain jump hosts with commas, threading a port forward deep into (or o…

In animals some things are definitely hardwired. I had a pet rabbit and made the mistake of watching a nature documentary about snakes when she was in the room. The mere sound of a…

Yes I said that. Still -- many, many hours of cryptic crosswords being solved and explained if you want to see how the best in the world does it.

Cracking the Cryptic, e.g.: https://youtu.be/ecytVCusIeY It's mostly a variant sudoku channel but Mark Goodliffe is an insanely good cryptic crossword solver, and both Simon and Ma…

My mind was blown when visiting Sweden in 2002 and finding out they pronounce "www" as "vee vee vee" (not just because the letter name double-v makes much more sense than double-u,…

Congrats to Scott. I'm still somewhat disappointed Brendan Gregg didn't pop up there making the AI Alignment equivalent of flame graphs!

Not denying that there are many ways in which development can go wrong, whether that's genetic or the environment. What I'm responding to is the sudden change seen in many populati…

Almost all children are born hypermetropic (far-sighted). The growth of the eyeball is calibrated by the amount of defocus (blur) experienced. More defocus, more growth, which redu…

OpenAI, on AI alignment instrumentation?

Third option: the test ID is generated well before the test is taken. When I donate blood the nurse pulls out a sheet of around 20 pre-generated identical barcode stickers, and att…

I assume they meant T^4 radiation (Stefan-Boltzmann law): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan–Boltzmann_law