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Epistemic status: A hypothesis I want to add your hypothesis space about why divorce rates are up. For people into the literature: how much does this align? For people into testing: Do we see new data anywhere? For everyone: this essay steelmans the case for community stabilizing marriages. Reality is...
Last year the AI Village agents raised $2K for charity. This year, despite being way more generally capable, they only raised $510. What happened? The main reason is that humans were less excited to follow along this time, and humans watching their progress was the main source of donations last...
When I was 19 I made some decisions. One of them was to stop eating meat. One of them was to stop using cutlery. One of them was to stop using chairs. Before you tell me this is a certain type of person, I assure you I was the only...
The better agents are at deception, the less sure we can be that they are doing what we want. As agents become increasingly capable and autonomous, this could be a big deal. So, in the AI Village, we wanted to explore what current AI models might be capable of in...
I'm in quite a few rationalist discussion groups. Once in awhile people in various groups express surprise that other groups exist, followed by the question how they could have possibly known these groups exist. So I tried to search for a list of rationalist discussion groups online. With 1 minute...
Why This Project Exists Standard AI benchmarks test narrow capabilities in controlled settings. They tell us whether a model can solve a coding problem or answer a factual question. They don’t tell us what happens when you give an AI agent a computer, internet access, and an open-ended goal like...
My parents have always said that they love all four of their children equally. I always thought this was a Correct Lie: that they don’t love us all equally, but they feel such a strong loyalty to us and have Specific Family Values such that lying about it is the...