However, this also feels like a feature of the "valley of confused abstractions". Humans didn't evolve based on individual snapshots of reality, we evolved with moving pictures as input data. If a human in the ancestral environment, when faced with a tiger leaping out of the bushes, decided to analyse its fur patterns rather than register the large orange shape moving straight for them, it's unlikely they would have returned from their first hunting trip. When we see a 2D image, we naturally "fill in the gaps", and create a 3D model of it in our heads, but current image classifiers don't do this, they just take a snapshot. For reasons of architectural bias, they are more likely to identify the abstraction of texture than the arguably far more natural abstraction of shape. Accordingly, we might expect video-based models to be more likely to recognise shapes than image-based models, and hence be more robust to this failure mode.

If this were true, then you'd expect NeRF's and SORA to be a lot less biased towards textures, right? 

I've observed much the same thing. And my conclusion is that we don't have any proofs that ever greater intelligence converges to EU-maximizing agents.

Edit: We don't even have an argument that meets the standards of rigour in physics. 
 

What were the benefits?

Google’s auto-translation tools

Are there chrome-native tools which are better than google translate for webpages? Because you can use the latter on Firefox and it works pretty well.

That's fair, but it sounds like a personal preference. I asked because maybe you knew there was something unusually bad about small flats in the Bay Area that even folks like me would find annoying. 

• you should be worried someone convinces you to move to the bay. it's not worth it. like, literally entirely for cost of housing reasons, no other reason, everything else is great, there's a reason people are there anyway. but phew, the niceness comes with a honkin price tag. and no, living in a 10ft by 10ft room to get vaguely normal sounding rent is not a good idea, even though it's possible.

Why's this not a good idea? 10ft by 10ft is a lot of room. More than I had in some flats when I went to university.

Starting steps for chores/longer term tasks I've been putting off. Things that reduce the problem a little on other words.

Thanks!

I can't see a link to any LW dialog at the top.

Oh, I see! That makes a lot more sense. But he should really write up/link to his project then, or his collaborator's project.