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• garrison 14 Nov 2024 16:16 UTC

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  in reply to: Vladimir_Nesov’s comment on: Is Deep Learn­ing Ac­tu­ally Hit­ting a Wall? Eval­u­at­ing Ilya Sutskever’s Re­cent Claims

  Thanks for these!

• garrison 13 Nov 2024 22:10 UTC

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  in reply to: Noosphere89’s comment on: Is Deep Learn­ing Ac­tu­ally Hit­ting a Wall? Eval­u­at­ing Ilya Sutskever’s Re­cent Claims

  I think this is a misunderstanding of the piece and how journalists typically paraphrase things. The reporters wrote that Ilya told them that results from scaling up pre-training have plateaued. So he probably said something to that effect, but for readability and word-count reasons, they paraphrased it.

  If a reported story from a credible outlet says something like X told us that Y, then the reporters are sourcing claim Y to X, whether or not they include a direct quote.

  The plateau claim also jives with The Information story about OpenAI, as well as a few other similar claims made by people in industry.

  Ilya probably spoke to the reporter(s) for at least a few min, so the quotes you see are a tiny fraction of everything he said.

Is Deep Learn­ing Ac­tu­ally Hit­ting a Wall? Eval­u­at­ing Ilya Sutskever’s Re­cent Claims

Miles Brundage re­signed from OpenAI, and his AGI readi­ness team was disbanded

The Tech In­dus­try is the Biggest Blocker to Mean­ingful AI Safety Regulations

My ar­ti­cle in The Na­tion — Cal­ifor­nia’s AI Safety Bill Is a Mask-Off Mo­ment for the Industry

• garrison 17 Jul 2024 15:40 UTC

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  in reply to: Ruby’s comment on: Against Aschen­bren­ner: How ‘Si­tu­a­tional Aware­ness’ con­structs a nar­ra­tive that un­der­mines safety and threat­ens humanity

  FWIW I was also confused by this usage of sic, bc I’ve only ever seen it as indicating the error was in the original quote. Quotes seem sufficient to indicate you’re quoting the original piece. I use single quotes when I’m not quoting a specific person, but introducing a hypothetical perspective.

Pod­cast with Yoshua Ben­gio on Why AI Labs are “Play­ing Dice with Hu­man­ity’s Fu­ture”

• garrison 28 Mar 2024 22:38 UTC

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  in reply to: trevor’s comment on: My In­ter­view With Cade Metz on His Re­port­ing About Slate Star Codex

  I only skimmed the NYT piece about China and ai talent, but didn’t see evidence of what you said (dishonestly angle shooting the AI safety scene).

• garrison 5 Mar 2024 18:13 UTC

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  in reply to: Nathan Helm-Burger’s comment on: Claude Doesn’t Want to Die

  The fey thing stuck out to me too. I’ll guess ChatGPT?

  I agree that it’s hard to disentangle the author/​character thing. I’m really curious for what the base model would say about its situation (especially without the upstream prompt “You are a language model developed by...”).

Claude Doesn’t Want to Die

• garrison 14 Feb 2024 3:18 UTC

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  in reply to: brambleboy’s comment on: My cover story in Ja­cobin on AI cap­i­tal­ism and the x-risk debates

  Thank you so much! I haven’t gotten any serious negative feedback from lefties for the EA stuff so far, though an e/​acc on Twitter mentioned it haha

My cover story in Ja­cobin on AI cap­i­tal­ism and the x-risk debates

• garrison 12 Feb 2024 21:56 UTC

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  in reply to: Logan Zoellner’s comment on: Sam Alt­man’s Chip Am­bi­tions Un­der­cut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy

  Maybe I wasn’t clear enough in the writing, but I make basically the same point about the desirability of a slow takeoff in the piece.

• garrison 10 Feb 2024 19:56 UTC

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  on: OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion

  This approach appears to directly contradict Altman’s blogpost from less than a year ago arguing for short timelines + slow takeoff because of less compute overhang. I wrote more on this here.

Sam Alt­man’s Chip Am­bi­tions Un­der­cut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy

• garrison 28 Oct 2022 15:50 UTC

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  in reply to: the gears to ascension’s comment on: Pod­cast: The Left and Effec­tive Altru­ism with Habiba Islam

  I’m exploring adding transcripts, and would do this one retroactively.

  Good to know RE YouTube. I haven’t uploaded there before (it’s outside of the RSS workflow and I’m not sure how much it would expand reach), but seeing comments like this is helpful info.

Pod­cast: The Left and Effec­tive Altru­ism with Habiba Islam