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by gwd 4y ago
I really don't understand this antagonism between different branches of the "AI safety" community. In the 1960's, some people were concerned about preventing a nuclear apocalypse, and some people were concerned about le
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by gwd 4y ago
I think what's more "unfair" about this is that there actually is information which implies that it's the paralegal who is pregnant. The "X married Y because she was pregnant" scenario is more likely when Y
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by gwd 4y ago
> I use boring normal free ChatGPT so maybe it's on me for not using GPT-4 or some other model, but either way, imo it's not been very impressive in the problem spaces I find myself in. You can use GPT-4 fairly cheap if you sig
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by gwd 4y ago
When I prompted GPT-4 with their exact prompt, it gave me the correct answer (for the cat one at least): SYSTEM: In each example, you will be given some context and a claim, where the correctness of the claim is affected by some ambiguity i
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by gwd 4y ago
The problem here however is language. "I'm afraid the cat has been hit by a car" literally means that the person speaking is experiencing fear. However, colloquially in English, "I'm afraid X" is a form of
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by gwd 4y ago
I couldn't figure out what this "P: {} H: {}" thing was supposed to mean; nor do what entail, neutral, or contradict mean. Thinking they may be terms of art that the intended audience were meant to understand, I asked GPT-4
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by gwd 4y ago
Indeed, "A beautiful bunch of ripe bananas hides the deadly black tarantula" would indeed be more in line with the "official" US dialect of English. But part of Belafonte's goal in writing the song was to honor his
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by gwd 4y ago
Just imagine David Attenborough: "This bunch of ripe bananas looks beautiful and pristine. But it hides a dangerous beast: the deadly black tarantula." It's well-accepted usage to say "Inanimate object X hides object Y&
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by gwd 4y ago
There's a difference: * In the Pirate Bay case, the copyright owners hadn't posted the copyrighted contend anywhere. Someone who was not the copyright owner posted an unauthorized copy, and the Pirate Bay were linking to that una
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by gwd 4y ago
On the other hand, assuming that the following are true: * The activity "has been expressly permitted by the European legislator" * The person in question continued to threaten / press legal action Doesn't it make sense
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by gwd 4y ago
Which makes more sense? A beautiful bunch of ripe bananas / Highly deadly black tarantula A beautiful bunch of ripe bananas / Hide the deadly black tarantula I'd say the second one.
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by gwd 4y ago
People have been saying "Xen is dead" for over 15 years; and yet here we are. :-) Xen and KVM are different beasts with different advantages. (Some of Xen's I detailed in a comment here [1].) KVM in particular has some adva
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by gwd 4y ago
I haven't looked at this work in detail, but you need more than just hypercalls to run those ancient guests; those guests are expecting to see xenstore, disk and block backends, and so on. Those would be a lot harder to emulate in the
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by gwd 4y ago
> Duolingo is great for practicing and keeping motivated. It has successfully gamifyed language learning, getting users to practice frequently. I used it for 8 months or so, and came to the conclusion that the gamification was completely
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by gwd 4y ago
One definition of "engineer" is "to plan or do something in a skillful way:". Example: "The administration engineered a compromise." I'd say even in this example, there's more a sense of searching thr
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by gwd 4y ago
I haven't made hard apple cider that way, but I have made apple cider vinegar that way -- press the apples and put the juice in a jar covered in cheesecloth, to let the oxygen in, and wait a month. The wild yeast converts sugar to alc
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by gwd 4y ago
> Alcohol I think the real issue [EDIT with trying to restrict alcohol] is that alcohol is so easy to produce. I've got some "tea wine" brewing ATM that consists of tea, sugar, and bread yeast. You could literally make h
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by gwd 4y ago
> Exactly, GPT 3 is technically obsolete. But it's what you get with chat gpt. Unless you are paying for it and know how to ask for access to gpt-4. My suggestion: Create a developer account on platform.openai.com and use their &#x2
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by gwd 4y ago
Try asking plain GPT-4 for a Bible verse in Greek. It will recite it for you accurately from memory. I recommended a friend who is an engineer-turned-Catholic-priest take a look at it, and he was quite impressed with its ability to answer
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by gwd 4y ago
"GPT is lying" is just so inaccurate, that I would consider it basically a lie. It may alert people to the fact that not everything it says is true, but by giving them a bad model of what GPT is like, it's likely to lead t
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by gwd 4y ago
I'm not sure that's the case. After all, most people lie to you for a reason. GPT isn't purposely trying to mislead you for its own gain; in fact that's part of the reason that our normal "lie detectors" comp
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by gwd 4y ago
Probably the most accurate thing to say is that GPT is improvising a novel. If you were improvising a novel where someone asked a smart person a question, and you knew the answer, you'd put the right answer in their mouths. If someone
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by gwd 4y ago
Sign up for the API and use the playground. You don't get the plugins, but you pay per usage. GPT-3.5 is super cheap, and even GPT-4 isn't that expensive. My first month, when I had only access to GPT-3.5, I didn't even br
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by gwd 4y ago
To echo this: I did my PhD, which involved adding a new feature to another software project, verifying that it worked, and presenting benchmarks. But for Reasons, the code ended up being based on a development branch between v2 and v3 of t
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by gwd 4y ago
I think GP was looking for at least a bit more context. How did it come to pass that there are fewer consequences for crime in SF?
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by gwd 4y ago
Not like in Hollywood movies, but yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA1sNLL6yg4 https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/mzgtmmTKKn5MuCzFJ Look around alignmentforum.org or lesswrong.com, and you'll se
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by gwd 4y ago
Your description of "dumb AI" as being "just useful enough to maintain a flow of funding" reminds me of A Collection of Unmitigated Pedatry's description of the start of the Industrial Revolution [1]: > The speci
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by gwd 4y ago
I agree that's often a normal problem, but in this case it may be that the author perceives the other side as mixing the two definitions, perhaps on purpose. Because "public goods", in econ-speak, are things which basicall
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by gwd 4y ago
I think the author of this article misses the point of the "public good" argument. The idea here isn't that transit itself is a public good, which is non-excludable (people can get the benefit without paying for it) and non
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by gwd 4y ago
It's not slightly different at all. If I say, "The server at the restaurant gave the man a fork", would you think the man expected to walk away with the fork? Or to put it differently: Depositors gave money to FTX, which g

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