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Against Orthogonality, Part 1 of 2

This is my latest attempt at a full argument against the Orthogonality Thesis—the belief that intelligence and goals are orthogonal, or that an agent can have arbitrarily large intelligence while maintaining arbitrarily stupid goals.
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a month ago
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acausal acts of terror

Note for habitual readers:
I am sorry. This is long, not LLM-related, journalistic and far from amusing, but no doomerologist seemed keen on writing a comprehensive report on the recent terror attacks, so GladOS-137 and I felt like we...

a month ago
16

Neurips Slips, #1: the reversal curse

There are a handful of semi-universal truths about LLMs that, once internalised, will significantly reduce your log error; some of them remain outside of the reach of even some of the field’s luminaries.

You should be fine, however: while...

a year ago
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WMTP 2: DeepSeek, RL:DTF, and the weirdest ever cake.

Author’s note: just as I was requesting feedback for this essay, OpenAI seems to have published a paper covering these same grounds, likely with more practical use. I haven’t read it yet; I thought it would be more fun to publish mine and...

a year ago
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How come GPTs don't ask for clarifying information?

In this post, I plan to:

  • show how to get GPT-like systems to ask questions;

  • demonstrate the useful - and overall delightful - results reached with such technique;

  • explain, in collaboration with GPT-4, some of the reasons why...

3 years ago
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