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Published on January 15, 2025 2:30 PM GMTTable of Contents Man With a Plan. Oh the Pain. Actual Proposals. For AI Builders. Think of the Children. Content Identification. Infrastructure Week. Paying Attention. Man With a Plan The primary Man With a Plan this week for government-guided AI prosperity was UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, with a plan coming primarily from Matt Clifford. I’ll be...

Published on January 15, 2025 2:22 PM GMTThe first section describes problems with a few different alignment targets. The second section argues that it is useful to view all of them as variations of a single alignment target: building an AI that does what a Group wants that AI to do. The post then goes on to argue that all of the individual problems...

Published on January 15, 2025 2:08 PM GMTMy current outlook on LLMs is that they are some combination of bullshit to fool people who are looking to be fooled, and a modest but potentially very important improvement in the capacity to search large corpuses of text in response to uncontroversial natural-language queries and automatically summarize the results. Beyond this, I think they’re massively overhyped....