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I've been well served by Bitwarden: https://bitwarden.com/

It has a dark theme, apps for everything (including Linux commandline), the Firefox extension autofills with a keyboard shortcut, plus I don't remember any large data breaches.

Part of the value of reddit-style votes as a community moderation feature is that using them is easy. Beware Trivial Inconveniences and all that. I think that having to explain every downvote would lead to me contributing to community moderation efforts less, would lead to dogpiling on people who already have far more refutation than they deserve, would lead to zero-effort 'just so I can downvote this' drive-by comments, and generally would make it far easier for absolute nonsense to go unchallenged. 

If I came across obvious bot-spam in the middle of the comments, neither downvoted nor deleted and I couldn't downvote without writing a comment... I expect that 80% of the time I'd just close the tab (and that remaining 20% is only because I have a social media addiction problem). 

To solve this problem you would need a very large dataset of mistakes made by LLMs, and their true continuations. [...] This dataset is unlikely to ever exist, given that its size would need to be many times bigger than the entire internet. 

I had assumed that creating on that dataset was a major reason for doing a public release of ChatGPT. "Was this a good response?" [thumb-up] / [thumb-down] -> dataset -> more RLHF. Right? 

Meaning it literally showed zero difference in half the tests? Does that make sense?

Codeforces is not marked as having a GPT-4 measurement on this chart. Yes, it's a somewhat confusing chart.

Green bars are GPT-4. Blue bars are not. I suspect they just didn't retest everything.

So.... they held the door open to see if it'd escape or not? I predict this testing method may go poorly with more capable models, to put it lightly. 

And then OpenAI deployed a more capable version than was tested!

They also did not have access to the final version of the model that we deployed. The final version has capability improvements relevant to some of the factors that limited the earlier models power-seeking abilities, such as longer context length, and improved problem-solving abilities as in some cases we've observed.

This defeats the entire point of testing. 

I am slightly worried that posts like veedrac's Optimality is the Tiger may have given them ideas. "Hey, if you run it in this specific way, a LLM might become an agent! If it gives you code for recursively calling itself, don't run it"... so they write that code themselves and run it. 

I really don't know how to feel about this. On one hand, this is taking ideas around alignment seriously and testing for them, right? On the other hand, I wonder what the testers would have done if the answer was "yep, it's dangerously spreading and increasing it's capabilities oh wait no nevermind it's stopped that and looks fine now". 

At the time I took AlphaGo as a sign that Elizer was more correct than Hanson w/r/t the whole AI-go-FOOM debate. I realize that's an old example which predates the last-four-years AI successes, but I updated pretty heavily on it at the time. 

I'm going to suggest reading widely as another solution. I think it's dangerous to focus too much on one specific subgenre, or certain authors, or books only from from one source (your library and Amazon do, in fact, filter your content for you, if not very tightly). 

For me, the benefit of studying tropes is that it makes it easy to talk about the ways in which stories are story-like. In fact, to discuss what stories are like, this post used several links to tropes (specifically ones known to be wrong/misleading/inapplicable to reality). 

I think a few deep binges on TVtropes for media I liked really helped me get a lot better at media analysis very, very quickly. (Along with a certain anime analysis blog that mixed in obvious and insightful cinematography commentary focusing on framing, color, and lighting, with more abstract analysis of mood, theme, character, and purpose -- both illustrated with links to screenshots, using media that was familiar and interesting to me.) 

And by putting word-handles on common story features, it makes it easy to spot them turning up in places they shouldn't. Like in your thinking about real-life situations.

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