#2: Purposefulness. The Big 3 LLMs typically maintain or can at least form a sense of purpose or intention throughout a conversation with you, such as to assist you.
Isn’t this just because the system prompt is always saying something along the lines of “your purpose is to assist the user”?
by saying their name aloud: [...] …but it’s a lot more difficult to use active recall to remember people’s names.
I’m confused, isn’t saying their name in a sentence an example of active recall?
Finding two bugs in a large codebase doesn’t seem especially suspicious to me.
I don’t think I understand, what is the strawman?
I think the AI gave the expected answer here, that is, it agreed with and expanded on the opinions given in the prompt. I wouldn’t say it’s great or dumb, it’s just something to be aware of when reading AI output.
It looks like you are measuring smartness by how much it agrees with your opinions? I guess you will find that Claude is not only smarter than LessWrong, but it’s also smarter any human alive (except yourself) by this measure.
Entries 1a and 1b are obviously not not relevant to the OP, which is mainly about the sense in 3b (maybe a little bit the 3a sense too, since it is “merged with or coloured by sense 3b”).
Entry 3b looks (to me) sufficiently broad and vague that it doesn’t really rule anything out. Do you think it contradicts anything that’s in the OP?
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Okay? Why are you telling us this?
Maybe if you solve for equilibrium you get that after releasing the tool, the tool is defeated reasonably quickly?
I believe it’s already known that running the text through another (possibly smaller and cheaper) LLM to reword it can remove the watermarking. So for catching cheaters it’s only a tiny bit stronger than searching for “as a large language model” in the text.
Why release a phone with 5 new features when you can just R&D one and put it in a new case?
In the ideal case of a competitive market, you don’t release just one new feature, because any of your competitors could release a phone with two new features and eat your lunch. But the real-world smartphone market is surely much closer to oligopoly than perfect competition.
The costs of the competition of the market are almost invisible, but we have been seeing them over decades get more and more obvious.
How sure are you that this isn’t rather the costs of lack of competition?
Maybe, although what is “sufficient” depends a lot on the rate of catching the evaders. I don’t have a good guess as to what that rate is.
Yes, currently very few companies report paying ransom payments. When this tax is introduced the motivation for hiding payments will be even higher, and go up with the tax rate. So when you say “With each increase in tax rates, a market equilibrium will be reached where the funding of ransomware is significantly reduced” I would guess instead that reporting will go down.
You didn’t say anything about tax evasion in this post, which seems like an important thing to consider. Most ransomware payments are made secretly, right?
Worsening housing and rent problems in California, Canada, major metropolitan areas, Japan, China, and other places that are facing housing shortages could ignite support for Georgism.
Do Japan and China have housing shortages? I thought Japan was the canonical “zoning done right” example. And doesn’t China have some sort of over-supply sitatution due to government subsidies?
slatestarcodex being contra hanson on healthcare
That case (I didn’t follow the others) seemed like it was mostly about confusion over what Hanson’s position even is. Maybe because Hanson and/or people misunderstanding him tried to compress it into short tweets.
There was a correction: this should be half a million gallons.
But how can you know that? Couldn’t there be actual insider sources truthfully reporting the existence of such discussions?
Yes, I perhaps should have said “I think there is a 99% chance this is made up”. As a general rule, I think any politically charged story based on “anonymous insider sources” should be considered very low credibility, and if there is no other support, then a 90+ chance of being made up is about right. More credibility points lost in this case for the only source being a tweet from a guy who seems to be advertising some kind of passport acquisition service.
There can simultaneously be an crisis of immigration of poor people and a crisis of emigration of rich people.
The tweet’s screenshot doesn’t seem to be talking about rich people in particular being the ones leaving (which I think is usually termed “capital flight”; that is, the money leaving is more important than the people).
Canada also is looking to impose a $25k penalty and double its ‘exit fee’ for citizens who leave the country, to ‘curb the emigration crisis.’
This is made up, apparently.
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/monthly-roundup-18-may-2024/comment/56269684
https://www.yahoo.com/news/users-spread-unfounded-claims-impending-163724801.html
Recent headlines are about too much immigration (e.g., https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canada-stuck-in-population-trap-needs-to-reduce-immigration-bank/), so ‘emigration crisis’ doesn’t make much sense.
Unless you also think the United States is an outlier in terms of spouses who don’t unconditionally love each other, I guess you have to endorse something like Kaj_Sotala’s point that divorce isn’t always the same as ending love though, right?
Yes, my understanding is that the system prompt isn’t really priviledged in any way by the LLM itself, just in the scaffolding around it.
But regardless, this sounds to me less like maintaining or forming a sense of purpose, and more like retrieving information from the context window.
That is, if the LLM has previously seen (through system prompt or first instruction or whatever) “your purpose is to assist the user”, and later sees “what is your purpose?” an answer saying “my purpose is to assist the user” doesn’t seem like evidence of purposefulness. Same if you run the exercise with “flurbles are purple”, and later “what color are flurbles?” with the answer “purple”.