More specifically, they may be emulating the Kenyans who were hired to create much of the training data. "I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me."
Note: I can't verify that the post I linked is legitimate. For all I know it could be generated by ChatGPT instructed to emulate a Kenyan writing about ChatGPT. HN discussion here.
That is easily patched via full-dive VR. You can keep your biological body. No upload be necessary.
Have you read Friendship is Optimal? Is that outcome unappealing to you in a way which can't be easily patched (e.g. removing the "become a pony" requirement)? Do you think it would be unappealing to almost everyone in ways that can't be easily patched?
Spencer's post isn't loading for me and I don't see any post about this on his facebook feed -- is the link right?
Specifically for ME/CFS and Long Covid, I recommend s4me.info. Pretty much all of the major studies on the mind-body methods already have threads there with discussions. The tl;dr is that they are extremely low quality studies in ways that will not be a surprise to anyone familiar with the replication crisis and these techniques very likely do not work for ME/CFS or LC.
This blog is good as well: https://mecfsscience.org/
Anthropic researchers estimate that Opus 4.5 provides 2-3x speedup to their research, if I'm reading this correctly. This seems very important and I'm surprised I haven't seen more discussion of it.
Twitter thread: https://x.com/HjalmarWijk/status/1993752035536331113
Unrolled/without login required: https://twitter-thread.com/t/1993752035536331113
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Nov 26Anthropic says in their system card that *all* their AI R&D evals are close to saturation, and report a median self-reported uplift of 2X (mean over 3X!) for power users. They provide very little evidence ruling out imminent dramatic AI R&D acceleration.
I personally suspect that their self-report uplift numbers are inflated and that agent time horizons are still limited. But if taken at face value, then even the most aggressive scenarios (e.g. AI 2027 or https://blog.redwoodresearch.org/p/whats-up-with-anthropic-predicting) would have underestimated progress.
I didn't quote the whole thread, there's more if you follow the link.
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1I recommend Deep Utopia for extensive discussion of this issue, if you haven't already read it.
That is an extremely unusual usage of the term "high-effort."