2026 marks exactly 1 millennium since the last total solar eclipse visible from Table Mountain. The now famous (among people who sit behind me at work) eclipse of 1026 would’ve been visible to anyone at the top of Lion’s Head or Table Mountain and basically everywhere else in Cape Town....
Everyone knows the best llms are profoundly smart in some ways but profoundly stupid in other ways. Yesterday, I asked sonnet-4.5 to restructure some code, it gleefully replied with something something, you’re absolutely something something, done! It’s truly incredible how in just a few minutes sonnet managed to take my...
I just finished the baby eater sequence ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HawFh7RvDM4RyoJ2d/three-worlds-collide-0-8 ) and aside from it being an incredibly engaging story I feel like there is a deeper message about ethical systems I don't fully understand yet. In the sequence introduction Eliezer says it makes points about "naturalistic metaethics" but I wonder...
2026 marks exactly 1 millennium since the last total solar eclipse visible from Table Mountain. The now famous (among people who sit behind me at work) eclipse of 1026 would’ve been visible to anyone at the top of Lion’s Head or Table Mountain and basically everywhere else in Cape Town. Including De Waal Park, where I’m currently writing this. I’ve hiked up Lion’s Head a lot and still find the view pretty damn awe inspiring. To have seen a total solar eclipse up there must have been absurdly damn awe inspiring. Maybe also terrifying if you didn’t know what was happening. But either way, I’m jealous of anyone that got to experience... (read 1380 more words →)
Everyone knows the best llms are profoundly smart in some ways but profoundly stupid in other ways.
Yesterday, I asked sonnet-4.5 to restructure some code, it gleefully replied with something something, you’re absolutely something something, done!
It’s truly incredible how in just a few minutes sonnet managed to take my code from confusing to extremely confusing. This happened not because it hallucinated or forgot how to create variables, rather it happened because it followed my instructions to the letter and the place I was trying to take the code was the wrong place to go. Once it was done I asked if it thought this change was a good idea it basically said: absolutely... (read 1319 more words →)
This is incredible, thank you :)
Thank you for this and particularly the last paragraph.
I think there have been pieces of this essay floating around in my brain for a while but for some reason I have never been able to put them together so clearly and beautifully, as you have done here.
Thanks for that. I will check out Under acknowledged value differences. I do know about the meta-ethics squence but I have not read the entire sequence, just read a couple of posts here and there. Though it is on my list and I have been meaning to read the entire thing.
Thank you very much for that explanation, the idea of differing ethical orderings makes a lot of sense especially in relation to the story.
I'll be sure to check out your category theory posts, sounds very interesting!
I just finished the baby eater sequence ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HawFh7RvDM4RyoJ2d/three-worlds-collide-0-8 ) and aside from it being an incredibly engaging story I feel like there is a deeper message about ethical systems I don't fully understand yet.
In the sequence introduction Eliezer says it makes points about "naturalistic metaethics" but I wonder what points are these specifically, since after reading the SEP page on moral naturalism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism-moral/ I can't really figure out what the mind-independent moral facts are in the story.
Another thought I've had since I read the story is that it seems like a lot of human-human interactions are really human-babyeater interactions. If you're religious and talking to an atheist about God,... (read more)
The second guy is this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qjK3TWZE8