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This is a response to ARC's first technical report: Eliciting Latent Knowledge. But it should be fairly understandable even if you didn't read ARC's report, since I summarize relevant parts of their report as necessary. Here I propose some approaches to the problem ARC outlines which are very different from...
This post was inspired by orthonormal's post Developmental Stages of GPTs and the discussion that followed, so only part of it is original. First I'll aim to provide a crisper version of the argument for why GPT wants to mesa-optimize. Specifically, I'll explain a well-known optimization algorithm used in text...
Could hospitals install HEPA filters in common spaces and run them 24/7 to decrease COVID-19 spread?
An easy way to limit your exposure to COVID-19 is to quit going out grocery shopping and buy groceries online instead. But there's a problem: This review found that coronaviruses can persist on inanimate surfaces for up to 9 days at room temperature (EDIT: Maybe as many as 17 days,...
With the recent stock market sale, I've been looking over stocks to see which seem to be worth buying. (As background information, I'm buying stocks to have fun and bet my beliefs. If you believe in the efficient market hypothesis, buying stocks at random should perform roughly as well as...
My aging parents live in Santa Clara County and have a relatively fatalistic attitude towards COVID-19 exposure. But they seem open to taking supplements. So I'm trying to figure out what to recommend. This 2017 post from Sarah Constantin on the prevention of respiratory tract infections says, among other things:...