owenshen24

+1, stuff like this is a big turnoff for reading

i also wish that these types of illicit system usage would be met with punitive action the same way a human might be held liable.

as the METR report says, we may not get another concrete warning shot.

> OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as executives grappled with the fallout from the July breach of the open source repository Hugging Face, the people said.

I've heard that many resume screens are automated these days, which has led to my hearing stories of people trying to game this by cramming keywords in invisible font and other things like that.

Can anyone with experience in recruiting shed some light on this matter?

https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/FRv7ryoqtvSuqBxuT/underst...

Even in the most optimistic scenarios, it's clear that we'll need additional carbon capture to avoid situations like 3-4 degrees C of warming.

https://mlu.red/55070266310.html

(Of course, ideally I think we'd be better off focusing on reporting the data in a Bayesian approach, but that hasn't really gotten traction in the broader community.)

I think paper discovery has recently suffered a huge boon thanks to ConnectedPapers, though. [https://www.connectedpapers.com/]

See also the "file-drawer problem" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias). Also, with regards to the incentives in the field and the lack of null results, there's always Ioannidis's classic work (https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...).

Self-plug for an overview on research into the habit formation literature that I recently cleaned up. Covers many evidence-backed interventions (of varying quality) for habit formation and removal.

https://mlu.red/52436366310.html

I do think this is an interesting topic. Effective altruism has lots of ongoing internal discussion about the efficacy of pushing for systemic change.

But I think the claims made in the article would have to be made a lot more substantive. See Scott Alexander's take here (https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billio...).

Overall, I think parts of this approach might throw the baby out with the bathwater. Even if we do restructure the way that society works, presumably we'll still care about interventions to improve well-being. I think effective altruism (https://www.effectivealtruism.com/) has provided a lot of traction on how to think about these issues. Even if you disagree with their moral stance, I think it's hard to deny that people in the EA community have been very thoughtful about quantifying interventions and thinking about impact.

And I don't think these sorts of questions are going to go away, come a social restructuring. There seems to be a lot that we can salvage from the EA viewpoint, even if we decide systemic change is the way forward, and I think that's worth emphasizing.