"AI alignment" really is just about working out their shared world sci fi collaboration (www.lesswrong.com)
an entirely vibes-based literary treatment of an amateur philosophy scary campfire story, continuing in the comments
"As always, pedophilia is not the same as ephebophilia." - Eliezer Yudkowsky, actual quote (www.lesswrong.com)
I somehow missed this one until now. Apparently it was once mentioned in the comments on the old sneerclub but I don’t think it got a proper post, and I think it deserves one.
this week's LW chud who is the sort of anti-wokeist who says he isn't right wing writes about human interaction from first principles. 100 upvotes. (www.lesswrong.com)
Epistemic status: Speculation. An unholy union of evo psych, introspection, random stuff I happen to observe & hear about, and thinking. Done on a highly charged topic. Caveat emptor!...
LW: [Request]: Use "Epilogenics" instead of "Eugenics" in most circumstances - people just don't like the word itself yes that must be it. Coined by Aella. (www.lesswrong.com)
archive archive.is/8NW7e
LW: CRISPR Will Make Me A Genius - "I don’t have a formal background in biology. And though I learn fairly quickly and have great resources like SciHub and GPT4," (www.lesswrong.com)
archive: archive.is/KdzMM
Ex-OpenAI board member Tasha McCauley is deep state because she married Joseph Gordon-Levitt (www.lesswrong.com)
Found this because an article on Helen Toner popped up in my feed and I wanted to find out more, and boy did I find out more.
a scrawny nerd in a basement writes (www.lesswrong.com)
(whatever the poster looks like and wherever they live, their personality is a scrawny nerd in a basement)
Libertarian becomes lawyer, appreciates police (www.lesswrong.com)
Choice quote:...
Sequence classic: "I don’t think you could get up to 99.99% confidence for assertions like “53 is a prime number.” (www.lesswrong.com)
Sneerquence Classic: "Shut up and do the impossible!" (ironic in hindsight given the doomerism) (www.lesswrong.com)
This is a classic sequence post: (mis)appropriated Japanese phrases and cultural concepts, references to the AI box experiment, and links to other sequence posts. It is also especially ironic given Eliezer’s recent switch to doomerism with his new phrases of “shut it all down” and “AI alignment is too hard” and...
LessWrong classics: “A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam of a falling apple, would invent general relativity by the third frame” (www.lesswrong.com)
this year's "hmm, actually this is bad" post: Eliezer Yudkowsky Is Frequently, Confidently, Egregiously Wrong (www.lesswrong.com)
you need way too much familiarity with the rationalist subculture to appreciate this one fully, but my goodness this moderation notice (www.lesswrong.com)
LessWrong: "Assume Bad Faith" (www.lesswrong.com)
i guess sneerclub must just hate understanding things. yes, that must be it. (www.lesswrong.com)
LessWrong: Where’s the economic incentive for wokism coming from? (www.lesswrong.com)
yes really, that’s literally the title of the post. (archive copy, older archive copy) LessWrong goes full Motte....
LessWrong: video games > IQ tests (www.lesswrong.com)
Video games also have potential legal advantages over IQ tests for companies. You could argue that “we only hire people good at video games to get people who fit our corporate culture of liking video games” but that argument doesn’t work as well for IQ tests....
The Control Problem: Unsolved or Unsolvable? (www.lesswrong.com)
Neuronpedia - AI Safety Game — LessWrong (www.lesswrong.com)
Neuronpedia - AI Safety Game — LessWrong (www.lesswrong.com)
Neuronpedia - AI Safety Game — LessWrong (www.lesswrong.com)
The 2023 LessWrong "Why Do We Suck At This" post (www.lesswrong.com)
Renowned MIT professor Max Tegmark calculates there's a "one in six chance of an imminent global nuclear war" that would essentially wipe out all life on earth. (www.lesswrong.com)
