If you don't think there's anything you missed, that means you won't look for anything you missed.
That's how echo chambers happen.
(Look how few sentences were needed to communicate that. Incredible.)
This entire community relies on tautological posturing to protect itself from uncomfortable criticisms... But communicating efficiently is the skill needed to slow AI development and rein in existential risks. Using many big words to call people stupid won't cut it. If you can't figure out how to do this, that means you DO need LLM assistance. But to get it, you'd have to stop asking it to simplify your concepts and think in terms of translation instead.
Try consensus.app to find the data I... (read more)
Yeah, to be honest, I got 2 hours of sleep and I don't follow everything you said. If you say it won't work, I believe you, but I do know that being part of a community that outspokenly claims to value empirical evidence but has no objective mechanism between signing up for an account and upvoting its comments/posts can't objectively claim to associate empiricism with its community karma. Even if you could make this work for LLMs, I don't know that it would be reliable.
We might like to think rational cognitive practices actually make us "less wrong" than other people, but that may only be the case out of identity bias. We... (read more)
If there is anything you missed about an LLM's ability to transform ideas, then everything you just said is bunk. Your concept of this is far too linear, but it's a common misconception especially among certain varieties of 'tistics.
But if I could correct you, when I talk about naturally adept systems engineers, I'm talking about the ADHDers, particularly the cases severe enough to get excluded by inefficient communication and unnecessary flourish. You don't have to believe me. You can rationalize it away with guesses about how much data you think I have. But the reality is, you didn't look into it. The reality is, it's a matter of survival, so you're not... (read more)
I think you're right. It goes both ways.
I also don't think we need to be completely anxious about it. Few people carry 5 gallons of water 2 miles uphill every morning and chop firewood for an hour after that. Do we suffer for it? Sure. Is it realistic to live that way in the modern age? Not really.
We adapt to the tasks at hand, and if somebody starts making massive breakthroughs by giving up their deep focus skills, maybe we should thank them for the sacrifice.
Overall, this would be a helpful feature, but any time you weigh karma into it, you will also bolster knee-jerk cultural prejudices. Even a community that consciously attempts to minimize prejudices still has them, and may be even more reluctant to realize it. This place is still popularizing outmoded psychology, and with all the influence LW holds within AI safety circles, I have strong feelings about further reinforcing that.
Having options for different types of feedback is a great idea, but I've seen enough not to trust karma here. At the very least, I don't think it should be part of the default setting. Maybe let people turn it on manually with a notification of that risk?
The reason why nobody in this community has successfully named a 'pivotal weak act' where you do something weak enough with an AGI to be passively safe, but powerful enough to prevent any other AGI from destroying the world a year later - and yet also we can't just go do that right now and need to wait on AI - is that nothing like that exists.
Only a sith deals in absolutes.
There's always unlocking cognitive resources through meaning-making and highly specific collaborative network distribution.
I'm not talking about "improving public epistemology" on Twitter with "scientifically literate arguments." That's not how people work. Human bias cannot be reasoned away with factual education. It takes something... (read more)
Nice to hear people are making room for uncomfortable honesty and weirdness. Wish I could have attended.
Levi da.
I'm here to see if I can help.
I heard a few things about Elizier Yudkowsky. Saw a few LW articles while looking for previous research on my work with AI psychological influence. There isn't any so I signed up to contribute.
If you recognize my username, you probably know why that's a good idea. If you don't, I don't know how to explain succinctly yet. You'd have to see for yourself, and a web search can do that better than an intro comment.
It's a whole ass rabbit hole so either follow to see what I end up posting or downvote to repress curiosity. I get it. It's not comfortable for me either.
Update: explanation in bio.
The Rumbling.
Well, shit.
Welcome to my world.
That was an important day, but this would stop Jung in his tracks. This is why I don't give a flying fuck about upvotes. Praise RNJesus.
Can I assume you know what happened to Maria, Rose, and Sina? What do you think the 4th's name is?