kave

Hello! I work at Lightcone and like LessWrong :-)

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kave2d1415

It seems unlikely that different hastily cobbled-together programs would have the same bug.

Is this true? My sense is that in, for example, Advent of Code problems, different people often write the same bug into their program.

kave2d20

"Crucial to our disagreement" is 8 syllables to "cruxy"'s 2.

"Dispositive" is quite American, but has a more similar meaning to "cruxy" than plain "crucial". "Conclusive" or "decisive" are also in the neighbourhood, though these are both feel like they're about something more objective and less about what decides the issue relative to the speaker's map.

kave3d52

D&D.Sci forces the reader to think harder than anything else on this website

D&D.Sci smoothly entices me towards thinking hard. There's lots of thinking hard that can be done when reading a good essay, but the default is always to read on (cf Feynman on reading papers) and often I just do that while skipping the thinking hard.

kave4d191

Curated! This kicked off a wonderful series of fun data science challenges. I'm impressed that it's still going after over 3 years, and that other people have joined in with running them, especially @aphyer who has an entry running right now (go play it!).

Thank you, @abstractapplic for making these. I don't think I've ever submitted a solution, but I often like playing around with them a little (nowadays I just make inquiries with ChatGPT). I particularly like

That it nuanced my understanding of the supremacy of neural networks and when "just throw a neural net" at it might work or might not.

Here's to another 3.4 years!

kave5d20

Maybe "counterfactually robust" is an OK phrase?

kave5d20

I am sad to see you getting so downvoted. I am glad you are bringing this perspective up in the comments.

kave5d42

I like comments about other users' experiences for similar reasons why I like OP. I think maybe the ideal such comment would identify itself more clearly as an experience report, but I'd rather have the report than not.

kave5d96

What you probably mean is "completely unexpected", "surprising" or something similar

I think it means the more specific "a discovery that if it counterfactually hadn't happened, wouldn't have happened another way for a long time". I think this is roughly the "counterfactual" in "counterfactual impact", but I agree not the more widespread one.

It would be great to have a single word for this that was clearer.

kave6d40

Enovid is also adding NO to the body, whereas humming is pulling it from the sinuses, right? (based on a quick skim of the paper).

I found a consumer FeNO-measuring device for €550. I might be interested in contributing to a replication

kave9d22

(No, "you need huge profits to solve alignment" isn't a good excuse — we had nowhere near exhausted the alignment research that can be done without huge profits.)

This seems insufficiently argued; the existence of any alignment research that can be done without huge profits is not enough to establish that you don't need huge profits to solve alignment (particularly when considering things like how long timelines are even absent your intervention).

To be clear, I agree that OpenAI are doing evil by creating AI hype.

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