Links for 2023-10-20
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operates around 1750 Elo and is capable of playing end-to-end legal moves, even with black pieces or when the game starts with strange openings.” https://blog.mathieuacher.com/GPTsChessEloRatingLegalMoves/Large Language Models can Learn Rules: When talking about training LLMs, do you think of updating model parameters? In fact, you can use LLMs to learn a rule library. This not only improves multi-step reasoning, but also has many advantages: interpretability, transferability, and applicable to black-box LLMs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07064
Reason for Future, Act for Now: A Principled Framework for Autonomous LLM Agents with Provable Sample Efficiency https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17382
A Zero-Shot Language Agent for Computer Control with Structured Reflection https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08740
Table-GPT: Table-tuned GPT for Diverse Table Tasks https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09263
“Realtime AI Conversations are here! Introducing PlayHT 2.0 Turbo ⚡️Our new blazing fast Conversational AI Text-to-Speech model with <300ms latency!” https://twitter.com/play_ht/status/1714382990523167197
P365 Pistol-Armed Aerial Drone Put On Display By Sig Sauer https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/sig-sauer-shows-off-p365-pistol-armed-aerial-drone
“Introducing MuJoCo 3.0: a major new release of our fast, powerful and open source tool for robotics research.” https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco/discussions/1101
The Gods of Straight Lines: “In 1776, America rebelled in the name of freedom and democracy: the origin myth of the modern world order. And yet, somehow, unrebellious Canada ended up just as free and democratic. An unrebellious America likely would have too. For two decades, North Vietnam battled under the banner of communism, and won against all odds. And yet, somehow, Vietnam is now the most pro-capitalist country in the world. In every place, in every way, the gods of straight lines are constantly nudging everything back onto the trajectory which they have ordained.” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xkRtegmqL2iyhtDB3/the-gods-of-straight-lines
“It's 2023, 109 years after WW1 started, yet the pre-WW1 imperial borders are still visible on the election map of Poland - and on many others, for that matter.” https://twitter.com/sheemawn/status/1714181402424738055
Yann LeCun argues that intelligence has nothing to do with a desire to dominate, pointing out that Einstein was not rich and powerful. Yet Einstein wrote a letter urging the United States to start a nuclear weapons program. Surely he would have wanted to be powerful enough to dominate and defeat the Nazis.
Everyone wants to be powerful, if only to protect their family and end world hunger.
Jews literally used their superior intelligence to create a super-weapon to prevent their far more numerous arch-enemies from annihilating them (Szilard, Oppenheimer, Teller, Ulam, etc.). They only didn't do it themselves because they were not super-intelligent as individuals, and they lacked the coordination skills necessary to prevail against a much larger opponent without their own state.
So why did people like Einstein and von Neumann not become rich and powerful? Because they were able to exert more influence by doing basic research than by going into politics or becoming rich. No one remembers the names of historically rich people, but everyone knows the names of famous mathematicians or physicists like Pythagoras and Newton.
Individual humans don't become dominators because they don't want to, but because they can't. Humans are fundamentally limited by their wetware. Humans cannot easily experiment on themselves or make copies, which fundamentally limits their ability to undergo recursive self-improvement.
Students already take drugs like Ritalin and Adderall to help them focus. If they could create autistic copies of themselves that could focus perfectly on a subgoal while they are partying, they would. Who wouldn't? Or imagine being able to talk to billions of people at once like ChatGPT. Who would forgo this ability?
Seeking power to dominate others is almost always instrumentally rational.
Ukraine links:
At least 21 (!) destroyed/damaged Russian helicopters after the first use of ATACMS delivered by US. https://twitter.com/GeoConfirmed/status/1715132980652310662
Russian drone films Ukrainian robot mining a road in Avdiivka. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1714958847947776199
Ukraine’s Economy Starts to Rebound as It Adapts to War https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/business/ukraine-economy-war.html [https://archive.ph/zoS2A]
Ukrainian FPV drones and artillery destroying Russian equipment on the left bank of the Dnieper https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1715018149500793204
Amir Weitmann, chairman of one of the factions of the Israeli ruling Likud party, warned Russia on RT: https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1715142173849448919
Russia supports the enemies of Israel. Russia supports the Nazis who want to commit genocide against us, and Russia will pay. Listen to me carefully: we will end these Nazis, we will win this war, after this we will not forget what you do. We will come and we will make sure that Ukraine wins. We will make sure that you pay for what you did.
According to Russian sources, at least 3,000 Russian officers have been killed in Ukraine since 24. February 2022.
Former officers (Wagner, volunteers) are under Other.
Separatists are not included.
Confirmation for each name is available — obituary, grave, memorial plaque, etc.: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1InyFVmu1LoSjqcWTHe4iD9cR8CNiL-5Ke5Jiz_Mlvwc/edit#gid=1208816851
How to be doubly wrong. Israel did not bomb the hospital. However, Russia has actually bombed Ukrainian hospitals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_strikes_on_hospitals_during_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Russia further bombed a theater in Mariupol where between 500 and 1200 civilians were hiding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol_theatre_airstrike
See also: Some videos of hospitals targeted by Russia and Assad in Syria. https://twitter.com/nedalalamari/status/1715072643374735711
Israel links:
What the Palestinian terrorists did to the Israeli families before they executed them in their own homes. https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1714847625130762425
S Navy warship near Yemen intercepts multiple missiles, US officials say. Drones and cruise missiles were heading north in the Red Sea “potentially targeting Israel” https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/19/politics/us-navy-intercept-missiles-yemen/index.html
Hamas and other terror groups have fired roughly 7,144 rockets, mortars, drones, and other projectiles from Gaza toward Israel since October 7. https://twitter.com/GLNoronha/status/1715019506723033225