0x44 0x46 — LessWrong

One, two, three, four, five,
Once I caught a fish alive.
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
Then I let it go again.
Why did you let it go,
Because he bit my finger so!
Which finger did it bite?
This little finger on my right!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One,_Two,_Three,_Four,_Five

Perhaps in a bizarre twist of fate, GPT learns similarly to many young humans or even adult learners on new languages: by using nursery rhymes.

Edit: to add, I wonder if the is used as a vector/index of relative indirection. That would mean clusters of meaning around whatever level of the is being used.

In the end all language could be a 1 op instruction just compressed with a... (read more)

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We're already in AI takeoff

It seems like this strategy requires pretty deeply influencing the worldview of many world leaders. That is obviously very difficult because no movement that I'm aware of has done it (at least, quickly), and I think they all would like to if they judged it doable.

It seems to me that in 2020 the world was changed relatively quickly. How many events in history was able to shift every mind on the planet within 3 months? If it only takes 3 months to occupy the majority of focus then you have a bounds for what a Super Intelligent Agent may plan for.

What is more concerning and also interesting is that such an intelligence... (read more)