All of this for the funding of 2-3 OpenAI employee salaries, wow
could you share the link to the bear fat brand?
Strong agree.
Would add: This can be prevented with skilled supervision.
Aaron Silverbrook is going for it:
Aaron Silverbook, $5K, for approximately five thousand novels about AI going well. This one requires some background: critics claim that since AI absorbs text as training data and then predicts its completion, talking about dangerous AI too much might “hyperstition” it into existence. Along with the rest of the AI Futures Project, I wrote a skeptical blog post, which ended by asking - if this were true, it would be great, right? You could just write a few thousand books about AI behaving well, and alignment would be solved! At the time, I thought I was joking. Enter Aaron, who you may remember from his previous adventures in mad dental science. He and a cofounder have been working on an “AI fiction publishing house” that considers itself state-of-the-art in producing slightly-less-sloplike AI slop than usual. They offered to literally produce several thousand book-length stories about AI behaving well and ushering in utopia, on the off chance that this helps. Our grant will pay for compute. We’re still working on how to get this included in training corpuses. He would appreciate any plot ideas you could give him to use as prompts.
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1Is the issue that you need to be able to come up with a replacement before you stop the self-mockery?
Yes (or wait for those incentives to disappear from your life)
1If I had to guess you were just ready for it and likely couldn't've done it sooner.
thank you