Matt Goldenberg

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Non-Coercive Motivation
Changing your Mind With Memory Reconsolidation

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I imagine this will relax over time, like the early iPhone didn't allow any access for apps to the phonecall hardware.

For example, some of it comes across as more argumentative than necessary, some of it seems a bit too eager for recognition, and so on. Due to the nature of vibes, I'm not sure if I could provide a more convincing explanation.Then again I may just be an outlier.

 

I remember having similar impressions when first encountering Eliezer's writing. So if you are an outlier, you're not the only one.

I suspect that there are many programs that would work on these terms.  If you can get people to do things, then you can get them to be happier. But adherance is actually quite hard, especially around behavioral interventions for depression.

There's many other ways to search the network in the literature, such as Activation Vectors.  And I suspect we're just getting started on these sorts of search methods.

I think there are probably many approaches that don't work.

Being able to perfectly imitate a Chimpanzee would probably also require superhuman intelligence. But such a system would still only be able to imitate chimpanzees. Effectively, it would be much less intelligent than a human. Same for imitating human text. It's very hard, but the result wouldn't yield large capabilities.

It depends on your ability to extract the information from the model. RLHF and instruction tuning are one such algorithm that allow certain capabaliities besides next-token prediction to be extracted from the model. I suspect many other search and extraction techniques will be found, which can leverage latent capabalities and understandings in the model that aren't modelled in its' text outputs.

As the initial prompt, I used a lengthy contraption described in another post, with the following plot summary:

The original lengthy contraption, or one from the comments?

I tend to work in the reverse way - if I notice myself putting something off for too long, I add a deadline, but my default is to decide fresh each time what to do.

and we will limit the future prospects of our business beyond X threshold

They actually explicitly set up their business like this, as a capped-profits company

In that case, maybe adding pressure makes you go slower than if you were doing the task without pressure, but probably not slower than you go if you’re not spending time on the task at all.

There's also the body of research on incubation periods, showing that if you spend time not doing the task at all (while being aware of the task) you'll be more creative than if you get to the task immediately: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=prlinks&retmode=ref&id=19210055

How much you want to deliberately allow yourself slack, lack of pressure, and incubation seems heavily task dependent. The more creativity needed and the less clear consequences for time delay, the more you may want to put off having a deadline.

If the goal is to make your office beautiful, you may want to consider those tacks and box for a while. If the goal is to have light for the power outage that occured by nightfall, best to have a deadline.

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