Foundational values are a political technology that lossily compresses ideology into something more memetic.

Listen, we already know you're a racist, you don't have to work so hard to make us hate you!

"when you control for applicant qualifications discounted for affirmative action, there is no net racial discrimination in the ___ sector"

I'm not sure I understand this right (which I imagine is the purpose of his phrasing), but is this basically saying "if you assume black people are less competent, there is no racial discrimination"?

i know i'm not the target audience but my god the drudgery of organising ethicalseeming orgies, and consensual rape parties in particular, makes me feel many feelings. something sisyphean but the boulder is made out of gender roles and power dynamics and the slope is made of ... libido? the rationalists might well be the people i trust the least in the world to deal with it.

imo one should treat others as ends in themselves, and not merely as means to an end

that is to say, ugh! rationalists talk about your relation to other people without making it about consumption challenge

Our concern is not with the defensive intent. It's that the form of this particular probe is aggressive in effect, and the party that bears the cost is not the agent (which has no interests of its own) but the human operator downstream whose work the agent destroys if it follows the instruction.

... you think? aw shucks i only wanted to hurt bots

It's just a tool, like cars! My definition of tools is things that are being forced on us even though they're terrible for the environment and make everyone's life worse!

Spam machines are only ever funny or interesting by accident. The more they smooth out the wrinkles the more creatively useless they become. The tension is sort of fascinating.

Like I've always been interested in generative poetry and other manglings of text, and ChatGPT's so fucking dull compared to putting a sentence through babelfish a few times.

cool graph what's the x axis

Malcolm and Simone Collins with their children – Octavian George, four, Torsten Savage, two, and Titan Invictus, one – at home in Pennsylvania.

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What I find delightful about this is that I already wasn't impressed! Because, as the paper goes on to say

Moreover, although the UBE is a closed-book exam for humans, GPT-4’s huge training corpus largely distilled in its parameters means that it can effectively take the UBE “open-book”

And here I was thinking it not getting a perfect score on multiple-choice questions was already damning. But apparently it doesn't even get a particularly good score!

From Re-evaluating GPT-4’s bar exam performance (linked in the article):

First, although GPT-4’s UBE score nears the 90th percentile when examining approximate conversions from February administrations of the Illinois Bar Exam, these estimates are heavily skewed towards repeat test-takers who failed the July administration and score significantly lower than the general test-taking population.

Ohhh, that is sneaky!

I love the way these idiots keep incrementing the number on their ChatGPT fantasy as if it's a sufficient image of the future and it's going to get everyone on board. Complete failure of imagination, don't try to picture any actual use for it or anything, just make it... more.

Oh well done, you added noise to a line going up!