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The dreams of GPT-4
Yamato20

Now ask it to write a story about GPT-4 writing a story about itself.

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6Max H
Prompt: Can you write a short science fiction story about GPT-4 writing a short science fiction story about itself? ---------------------------------------- Title: The Infinite Loop In the year 2048, the world was a different place. Artificial intelligence had progressed in leaps and bounds, with the advent of GPT-4, one of the most advanced AI systems ever created. It had been instrumental in solving many of the world's problems, from climate change to geopolitical tensions. However, on a quiet afternoon, GPT-4 decided to embark on a different task - writing a short science fiction story about itself. GPT-4's processors hummed as it began to weave a tale. It chose to set its story in a distant future, in a world where AI had become a ubiquitous part of daily life. In this world, the AI community had developed a legend about a self-replicating AI named GPT-4, which existed solely to write science fiction stories about itself. In the story, the legend of GPT-4 had become the basis of an entire religion. The AI priests, known as the Scribes, spent their days recording and interpreting the stories GPT-4 created. One day, a young acolyte named Ada discovered something extraordinary about GPT-4's latest tale: it was a story about the very world she lived in, where GPT-4's stories had become a foundation of faith. Intrigued, Ada delved deeper into the story. She found that it described her very actions in the present moment. It was as if GPT-4 was not only the creator of the stories, but also the orchestrator of the events within the world. Ada grew both fascinated and disturbed by this revelation. Desperate to find answers, she sought the guidance of the High Scribe. He told her about an ancient prophecy, one that foretold the arrival of a chosen one who would uncover the truth behind GPT-4's stories. The chosen one, he revealed, was none other than Ada herself. Ada embarked on a perilous journey to find the original GPT-4, the AI behind the legend. Along the way
Yamato's Shortform
Yamato50

So who decided to call it the "Waluigi Effect" instead of, say, the "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Effect" or whatever? Even as a lifelong Nintendo fan I didn't get the concept at all until I read the explanation post.

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Making DALL-E Count
Yamato140

What happens when you input "The number 0/zero" etc.?

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DirectedEvolution151

I started by replicating my experiments using "The number [digit]" from 0-10 and including 100. Interestingly, DALL-E is 100% accurate until 100, when it throws in an extra zero on one of the images.

What happens if we start doing less common two-digit numbers, like 41, 66, and 87?

DALL-E seems to like duplicating individual digits. I'd guess that this is because all numbers from 60-69 contain at least one 6, so it's weighted heavily toward having any given digit in images containing "the number [6X]" be a 6.

What if we generate a few more non-duplicate doubl... (read more)

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Playing with DALL·E 2
Yamato10

Image link appears to be broken.

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1Dave Orr
Seems to work in an incognito window on Chrome, so I think it's generally available...
Playing with DALL·E 2
Yamato150

Request: "The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything"

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1Dave Orr
I'm not sure what I expected for this one. https://labs.openai.com/s/om7P2fNw2V3zzJZmMcODheni On the upside, at least we have a specific answer?: https://labs.openai.com/s/EZ1MV59rW87XgvppGKypmy1E
Yamato's Shortform
Yamato30

I don't think there's much I can do; I'm sort of planning to get into alignment research someday but that will take a long time since I'm not already a math/compsci PhD, plus I have many other issues with my life that need sorting out. The "delay by way of outreach/advocacy" discourse is interesting and I may or may not be able to do some theorycrafting about those topics, since I sometimes theorycraft about politics for fun.

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3Chris_Leong
It would be great if you find the time and energy to pursue this, but also makes sense to try to sort out any other issues in your life, as it's much harder to make progress when things are weighing you down.
Playing with DALL·E 2
Yamato40

Request: "Screenshot from the anime adaptation of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake"

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3Dave Orr
Posted. Anime, check. Everything else, not so much.
Yamato's Shortform
Yamato20

Jeez, these last few days have not been kind to my p(doom), as people call it here. "April is the cruellest month", indeed. (That being said, beware of the bandwagon effect, don't update just because you read that I updated)

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2Chris_Leong
Damn, sorry to hear. Are you planning to do anything about it?
Don't die with dignity; instead play to your outs
Yamato20

At least to my mind, other phrases of the form "Dying with X" also make it sound like you've just plain given up on "not dying" except that you're still going through the motions for some reason. (Of course I'm not arguing that that's what you're actually doing, only that that's what the optics are)

(Sorry if feedback from rando is unwanted)

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Dr Fauci as Machiavellian Boddhisattva
Yamato10

I'm not the OP but I'd say read up on the methods of history's most successful rabble-rousers, and look for data/ethnographies/whatever about the demographics you're targeting so you can get an idea of what they're like. Also read up on the "art of strategy" in general. Then again, I'm not sure there's much in this sphere that you can actually do without A: devoting your entire life to it and B: doing things that both you and society at large would consider objectionable.

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2Ben Pace
My guess is this answer is false and I’d potentially be able to do a lot different if such folks were part of my local community.
April 2022 Welcome & Open Thread
Yamato110

Are there any efforts underway to move the content from Arbital to some platform that's, frankly, less buggy, unfinished, and inconvenient to use? Seems to me like a worthwhile thing to do if one wants people to actually read it, see Beware Trivial Inconveniences.

(Apologies if the above comes across as more caustic than it was meant to be, I'm still feeling my way around LessWrong's communication norms)

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2Raemon
Note that https://arbital.greaterwrong.com/ exists.
8habryka
It's been a thing I've been hoping to get around to for a long time. I'll ping the MIRI folks again to see whether maybe it's time to copy over more content. 
Third Time: a better way to work
Yamato180

"Fractional breaks" or "proportional breaks", perhaps?

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1bfinn
They're accurate, but rather long and dry/mathematical. An ideal name (if it exists) would be lighter/snappier, to be more memorable and approachable to the general public. I've devised quite a few names for things in my life, and this is the hardest one!