Still feels hard to believe. The most viewed YouTube video has 15B views and I don't think there are that many with over a billion. But you think one specific character.ai persona has nearly a billion conversations started?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-viewed_YouTube_videos
I see the 864M interactions, which I don't think means open conversations.
Curated. There's an amusing element here: one of the major arguments for concern about powerful AI is how things will fail to generalize out of distribution. There's a similarish claim here – standard economics thinking not generalizing well to the unfamiliar and assumption-breaking domain of AI.
More broadly, I've long felt many people don't get something like "this is different but actually the same". As in, AI is different from previous technologies (surprising!) but also fits broader existing trendlines (e.g. the pretty rapid growth of humanity over its history, this is business as usual once you zoom out). Or the different is that there will be something different and beyond LLMs in coming years, but this is on trend as LLMs were different from what came before.
This post helps convey the above. To the extent there are laws of economics, they still hold, but AI, namely artificial people (from an economic perspective at least) require non-standard analysis and the outcome is weird and non-standard too compared to the expectations of many. All in all, kudos!
Thanks for the extra context. I mean, if we can get our design right then maybe we can inspire the rest ;)
There's a new experimental feature of React, <Activity>, that'd let us allow for navigation to a different page and then returning to the feed without losing your place. I haven't tried to make it work yet but it's high on the to-do list.
Oh no, that sounds no good at all. You might be relieved to I have on my to do to to explore overlay alternative design.
I actually have a prototype of "Claude/LLM integrated into LessWrong" that makes it easy to load LW content into the context. I could enable that for you but it's actually on Claude 3.5, iirc. Should maybe update it, check that it still works well, and let people try it out.
Making it easy to export content though is an alternative.
Haha. I kinda woulda liked to have the posts without the karma and be asked to estimate the karma for each...I feel like I would have gotten these directionally right but you know, wasn't an advanced prediction ;)
I'm curious if they persist in seeming that way. I've realized that for me there are people who felt that for a slice of time, but later didn't, for no clear reason.
Six years ago we introduced Shortform (later renamed Quick Takes) to LessWrong. Here's a meme-format thing we made at the time. How do people reckon it's gone? h/t @Raemon
I think they also mix between a broader metaphysical claim and claim about practical strategy that could be made without the metaphysical claim.