How much data does it take to pretrain a (human) brain? I conducted a (fairer) Fermi estimate. The post goes through the following questions: * How long does it take to grow a human brain? * How many waking seconds do we have in our life? * How many “tokens”...
I noticed we now live in a world where we can run Newcomb's problem as an actual experiment, so I ran the experiment! Roleplaying as the predictor in the Newcomb problem (with an LLM as the "decision maker") finally made me grok why one-boxing is the correct solution to the...
I was thinking about recent historical events on earth, and things seemed to be going in awfully convenient ways if I were an AI that needed to gain power. So I asked Claude to help me write up my thoughts (which I modified, see how here) in narrative form for...