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The 101 Space You Will Always Have With You

Any community which ever adds new people will need to either routinely teach the new and (to established members) blindingly obvious information to t…

2 years, 4 months ago

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[HUMAN VOICE] "Social Dark Matter" by Duncan Sabien

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https://substack.com/@homosabiens

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2 years, 4 months ago

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Shallow review of live agendas in alignment & safety

Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.Summary.

You can’t optimise an allocation of resources if you do…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Ability to solve long-horizon tasks correlates with wanting things in the behaviorist sense

Status: Vague, sorry. The point seems almost tautological to me, and yet also seems like the correct answer to the people going around saying “LLMs t…

2 years, 4 months ago

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[HUMAN VOICE] "The 6D effect: When companies take risks, one email can be very powerful." by scasper

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Recently, I have been learning about industry norms, legal discovery proce…

2 years, 4 months ago

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OpenAI: The Battle of the Board

Previously: OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend.

On Friday afternoon, OpenAI's board fired CEO Sam Altman.

Overnight, an agreement in principle was reached …

2 years, 4 months ago

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OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend

Approximately four GPTs and seven years ago, OpenAI's founders brought forth on this corporate landscape a new entity, conceived in liberty, and dedi…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Sam Altman fired from OpenAI

This is a linkpost for https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transitionBasically just the title, see the OAI blog post for more details…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Social Dark Matter

You know it must be out there, but you mostly never see it.

Author's Note 1: I'm something like 75% confident that this will be the last essay that I …

2 years, 4 months ago

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"You can just spontaneously call people you haven't met in years" by lc

Here's a recent conversation I had with a friend:

Me: "I wish I had more friends. You guys are great, but I only get to hang out with you like once or…

2 years, 4 months ago

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