we think Conjecture [...] have too low a bar for sharing, reducing the signal-to-noise ratio and diluting standards in the field. When they do provide evidence, it appears to be cherry picked.
This is an ironic criticism, given that this post has very low signal-to-noise quality and when it does provide evidence, it’s obviously cherry-picked. Relatedly, I am curious whether you used AI to write many parts of this post because the style is reminiscent and it reeks of a surplus of cognitive labor put to inefficient use, and seems to include some confabulations. A large percentage of the words in this post are spent on redundant, overly-detailed summaries.
I actually did not mind reading this style, because I found intriguing, but if typical lesswrong posts were like this it would be annoying and harm the signal-to-noise ratio.
Confabulation example:
(The simulators) post ends with speculative beliefs that they stated fairly confidently that took the framing to an extreme (e.g if the AI system adopts the “superintelligent AI persona” it’ll just be superintelligent).
This is… not how the post ends, nor is it a claim made anywhere in the post, and it’s hard to see how it could even be a misinterpretation of anything at the end of the post.
Your criticisms of Conjecture’s research are vague statements that it’s “low quality” and “not empirically testable” but you do not explain why. These potentially object-level criticisms are undermined from an outside view by your exhaustive, one-sided nitpicking of Connor’s character, which gives the impression that the author is saying every possible negative thing they can against Conjecture without regard for salience or even truth.
This is an ironic criticism, given that this post has very low signal-to-noise quality and when it does provide evidence, it’s obviously cherry-picked. Relatedly, I am curious whether you used AI to write many parts of this post because the style is reminiscent and it reeks of a surplus of cognitive labor put to inefficient use, and seems to include some confabulations. A large percentage of the words in this post are spent on redundant, overly-detailed summaries.
I actually did not mind reading this style, because I found intriguing, but if typical lesswrong posts were like this it would be annoying and harm the signal-to-noise ratio.
Confabulation example:
This is… not how the post ends, nor is it a claim made anywhere in the post, and it’s hard to see how it could even be a misinterpretation of anything at the end of the post.
Your criticisms of Conjecture’s research are vague statements that it’s “low quality” and “not empirically testable” but you do not explain why. These potentially object-level criticisms are undermined from an outside view by your exhaustive, one-sided nitpicking of Connor’s character, which gives the impression that the author is saying every possible negative thing they can against Conjecture without regard for salience or even truth.