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From one piece @paulg on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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But Chinese labs will encounter the same threats within a year, in complete silence.
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American labs leading is good because Chinese lab employees would be unable to warn the public about threats.Their words
This is why it's a good thing that American labs are in the lead. If Chinese labs were, their employees wouldn't be able to warn us about threats.
From one piece @naval on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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Today's AI hunts and feasts upon the Mozarts, Einsteins, and Shakespeares of our age. To birth a gang of ghostly geniuses that write our code, drive our cars, do our work, and run our world.
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Yesterday's AIs ate the Internet and became a patchwork mediocrity.
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The Frontier Lab flywheel is to get the smartest people to use the leading models. Then distill their inputs, your own model’s outputs, and resulting synthetic data and environments. And the people have to use the leading models because they’re locked in mutual competition.
8 September
From one piece God Help Us, Let’s Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques 3 beliefs · astralcodexten.com
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Removing a concept from a mind can damage unrelated systems or push the mind toward incompetence or insanity.Their words
empirically concepts can get their tentacles into weird places, and removing one can topple seemingly unrelated systems or push a mind nonspecifically in the direction of incompetence or insanity.
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Neural networks do not have a one-to-one mapping between individual neurons and concepts.Their words
researchers started by seeking a 1:1 mapping between neurons and concepts, like a neuron that always fired when the AI was thinking about cats, but quickly learned that nothing like that existed.
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Large language models are grown rather than built, and nobody really knows how the resulting working AI functions.Their words
Large language models are “grown, not built”. Researchers run training data through a neural network. Eventually this creates a working AI; nobody really knows how.
From one piece @paulg on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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if you have good enough transitions, an essay will feel as if it has a good structure. And vice versa: when readers complain about lack of structure, the reason is often simply that they're bothered by clumsy or abrupt transitions.
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you make more money by being good. In startups you generally do
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AI may finally allow us to test whether (or more precisely where) you make more money by being good.
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From one piece Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji 2 beliefs · astralcodexten.com
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This concept is still alive in present-day Japan, where cherry blossoms are viewed with the bittersweet knowledge that their beauty lasts only for a short while.
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The footnotes are critically important if you want to understand a world so completely different from the one we live in, and the characters generally behave, think, and feel in ways that are so outdated as to be completely unrelatable.
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24 August
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The left is on a project to enforce equality, despite biology and markets. The goal of equality gives claim to the moral high ground, but contradicting biology and markets requires censorship and violence, which makes the whole project immoral.
23 August
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The people who want to censor (code, speech, money) are the bad guys.
5 August
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If you learn key consensus results from many different fields, you will often find that they are in conflict, in ways one or both fields are unaware.
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