I’m curious to know for anyone that has read a lot of Yudkowsky’s and Scott Alexander’s writings (I read them for entertainment even) how are they feeling about the advancements of AI—all happening so fast and in such magnitude.
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The last few weeks I felt the opposite of this. I kind of go back and forth on thinking they are plateauing and then I get surprised with the new Sonnet version or o1-preview. I also experiment with my own prompting a lot.
Myself, I feel like every two weeks or so we see this kind of post with similar style to Eliezer’s so it feels repetitive… but I may be wrong though, just my reaction after seeing that post.
I’m kind of against it. There’s a line and I draw it there, it’s just too much power waiting to fall in a bad actor’s hand...
May you possibly be underestimating how hard it is to build a startup?
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Hey, I think you should also consider how the out-of-nowhere narrative-breaking nature of COVID. Which also happened after you wrote this. It’s not necessarily a proof that the narrative can “break,” but it sure is an example.
And, while I think I read the sequences way longer than 4 years ago, if I remember something it gave me is a sense of “everything can change very, very fast.”
Thank you for being a temporary asshole, that is a great comment. Does it occur to you how it can be done?
the first prediction market about this was in 8 november on polymarket and surprisingly it was 94 percent probability on them not halting withdrawals
Magic not needed… someone sees that SBF offers 3 billion to buy a piece of twitter, gets spooked and aggregates it on the prediction market → this raises the probability that it’s doing something shady (then any other assessment will be aggregated) now when FTX offers EA some money, we know the probability of them doing something shady… have some info to make a better decision (I noticed Scott Alexander writing about this)
I don’t think it’s quite a mystery as you think… if you do the same overleveraged high stakes bet and you come out winning ten out of ten times, it’s likely you will continue doing it (this is the nature of a ponzi scheme.) I think they could have easily find investors if they could have sustained the bank run and prevent the balance sheet leak.
The latter, I think, is the real mystery.
SBF probably knew at all times the dollar value size of a bank-run he could sustain until having to forcedly lock withdrawals, plus which whales could dump FTT at any given time (one of this being the CEO of Binance.)
While most people are thinking that Binance’s CEO Changpeng Zhao made a huge move dumping all of FTT, I think it’s terrible for him—it highlights the fragility of the entire enterprise and shifts all eyes on the remaining centralized exchanges (I imagine SBF’s line of thinking going something like this, he didn’t think that Zhao would martyr himself, but he did and thus we’re here)
We need better prediction markets
hehe Inadequate Equilibria is one of my favorite books ever, so I’m really glad that this study came up. It proves not only the SAD-specific section of the book, but the overall point.
I would recommend to only focus on the object-level problem you’re trying to solve.
For example:for programming, things like more monitors, a better IDE (or extensions, knowing how to navigate it by traveling back and forward, having a section with last opened files, last refactored functions, etc...) will help.
for conversations, you can apply some heuristics at different points of the conversation: what are talking about again? what did they mention? are we at the midpoint, ending, etc…
In mathematics, notation is basically a solution to the small working memory that we have, you just have to find the analogue for whatever you’re trying to solve. I doubt something will permanently fix low working memory in the long-term (e.g. dual n back) you can of course try some acetylcholine release agents or reuptake inhibitors which will make you more vigilant (e.g. the mildest one being coffee.) There’s also some evidence pointing to fasting, sleep deprivation, niche nutritional protocols such as carnivore diets (or rather, strict exclusion diets where you remove some foods progressively until you find the one that does not suit you.)
This is an excerpt I want to highlight for everyone in this forum:
> I agreed and said I was planning on doing it next Monday… anyway, 2 years later on <some> Monday I finally found the time.Write your thinking, expand on your comments, even if it takes 2 years!! I think there will always be someone which will derive value from it.
PredictIt is closing due to CFTC changing its mind
This type of honesty is very unheard of and I appreciate this a lot from you. Please, just take it step by step, I can assure that no one is out to get you and no one thinks that you’re being childish; all the contrary, you are quite honest and smart in your account.
I feel like many members of this community have had very similar experiences, I know that Scott Alexander, Eliezer, lukeprog , and Aella for example have had to make massive updates to their beliefs, and they’ve luckily written about it. I think you would get value from reading their accounts.
You don’t have to make immediate updates, these take a time, and only when you’re ready you can do so. In the end, your self-preservation, and self-actualization are the most important things you can optimize for.
I didn’t read any bad intent from P on his/her comment. And I also got the general sense from the post: of looking for help rather than us telling how you can help LW, and I’m guessing that was the nature of the comment.
I feel like you are quite a smart person (and still very young) but with the wrong assumptions that may be blocking a very meaningful self-development that is key to life (being independent/belonging to a group that cares about you) and I think you will be benefit greatly from trying to accomplish these goals however hard they may seem to you.
While you’ve had a very unique experience growing up that may have wired you in a certain way, this is not basis to the fact that you cannot live in any other way or change your mind (e.g. how sure are you of not having a job because you can take “another person telling me what to do” as opposed to just being plain afraid of doing something that you have virtually never done before?) I think navigating this reversal in assumptions will bring the most value to you and your content here.
I really enjoyed the post, and I appreciate reading about your experience and honesty. This unique experience in life that you had will bring unique insight, and I think this is how you can help others.
There’s also this video where Rhonda Patrick goes in depth about this
I disagree extremely. This is the best moment of my life. I am at the best point of my career (powered by o1 and o3 research previews is allowing me to reach the best solutions I couldn’t imagine reaching on my own, much less in such short time) it has helped me create two companies now completely different from my career (I have optimized hydroponic setups and cultivation of mushrooms purely with o1-pro to incredible levels.) My father, a doctor, tells me his patients are better than ever only because his use of o1, doctors are using it in their meetings with their most difficult to diagnose patients. My girlfriends uses it for mental health. I could continue. I feel so empowered. I have read too much of alignment to think that we are going to make it. It’s up to you -really- to choose to feel empowered or down about it. I’m honestly having the best time of my life.