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@vriska Number of pillows on your bed

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how many metaculus questions resolved on technicalities?

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AI, AIPOL 

Even as dumb as they are, current LLMs do have some extremely limited emergent general intelligence capabilities.

The comparison to parrots is apt, because parrots are (generally) intelligent too. Don't knock parrots just because they aren't humans (and the parrots are currently smarter than our best AIs).

We also (as far as I'm aware) haven't found the limits of current approaches. We really don't know what's going to happen.

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In general, how good are humans at solving problems compared to the theoretical optimum?

hint: he's been working on……another project, let's say

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you know why gwern has been posting so little in the past ~4 years, right?

Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9 28 17639 576189438…

Sudden takeoff view: AI systems are like normal programming (where the system suddenly works ~much much better by fixing step 14/15)

Slow take off view: AI systems are like physical with graceful decline

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Salamon deez nuts

Do you implement cognitive processes that increase the entanglement between your map and the territory?

Tell me about some internet subcultures I might not know about

"The Winner of the Hanson-Yudkowsky Foom debate was Gwern"

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p(doom)≈65%
timelines: 20% in 3 years, 50% in 10 years, 80% in 25 years
takeoff speeds: 20% in a day, 50% in 3 months, 80% in two years
p(s-risk) definitely too high. waaayyy too high. sth like 10⁻⁵ perhaps?

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