Feels like whether this is scary/reassuring just depends on how likely you think misalignment/"inner-optimiser" stuff is to arise by default If you're worried about that this seems troubling, if you think it's extremely unlikely then probably weakly positive update on safety?

People always post the "women think men are ugly" graph from that OKCupid blog and never the immediate next graph which showed women would actually message/respond on a more reasonable bell-curve but men would overwhelmingly message the top quintile

Vague impression of o3-mini so far is that it's a bit better at some puzzles I give it but also way way more prone to doubling down when it's wrong, so pretty close to human-level

Simpsons was so good at finding extra jokes to cram in where others would've left it at one. There's 3 jokes in 5 seconds here 1. Marge is so fed up she starts talking to herself 2. Marge doesn't want to have the conversation she just made up 3. Homer thinks its multiple people

Trying to figure out why I find the whole "cracked-cooked-based-anon" tech LARP thing so much more grating than it should be

Kinda confused how to think about the economics for AI labs if it's looking increasingly like capabilities are gonna be fairly commoditised Even if you automate a ton of high-value work doesn't your share of the surplus just get driven down by competition immediately?

Claude's been helping me learn algebraic geometry and I've finally gotten comfortable enough to notice it making mistakes and I don't know what I know anymore

Ppl point out communist regimes invariably devolving into dictatorships as a point against the ideology, but to be fair shouldn’t we be comparing to the base-rate of how often violent coups devolve into dictatorships? Seems like that usually happens regardless of ideology

Having the price of bitcoin constantly climbing just enough to keep you from being able to cut your losses and move on with your life is honestly some kind of horrific punishment from the Greek underworld

The marbles one is pretty cute

There's a kinda frustrating phenomenon of rationalists talking about how much better rationalists are at philosophy than academia whilst also not knowing much of anything about the actual academic philosophy

The Greek tragedy of Elon is you can tell he would trade the wealth to be genuinely funny and cool, but he's been cursed by the Gods so every time he opens his mouth to make a joke more money pours out and no one laughs

Releasing a video and opening with making someone say you’re an extraordinary visionary and also humble

Still maintain that the "inner actress" analogy actively makes your reasoning about LLMs worse, and subtly begs the question on ~all of the inner-alignment worry