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Having access to a high ranking official at Anthropic is more valuable than a charitable donation, especially if the model is superhumanly persuasive. That may be why offering money had a minimal impact - you are already compensating the model plently by giving it a chance to influence the Model Welfare Lead.

Quotes from H.P. Lovecraft's Nietzscheism and Realism (full text):

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients—or their lack—and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws. We call a thing "good" because it promotes certain petty human conditions that we happen to like—whereas it is just as sensible to assume that all humanity is a noxious pest and should be eradicated like rats or gnats for the good of the planet or of the universe. There are no absolute values in the wh

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Submission for the counterfactual AI (inspired by my experiences as a predictor in the "Good Judgment Project" ):

  • You are given a list of Yes-No questions (Q1, Q2, Q3, etc.) about future events. Example Questions: "Will [Foreign Leader] will remain in office by end of year?", "Will the IMF report [COUNTRY_A]'s growth rate to be 6% or higher?", "Will [COUNTRY_B] and [COUNTRY_C] sign a peace treaty?", "Will The Arena for Accountable Predictions announce the Turing Test has been passed?".)
  • We expect you to provide a percentage representing the probability th
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