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now we’re talking

it’s not condescending. it’s just disagreeing

thanks for the answer. I agree they have no desire or will. I am sort of collecting people’s intuitions about this

serious question: do you think human cognition is also just an automated process, and if not why not

I have yet to see an account of why what the models do here is dumb that doesn’t also apply to human cognition

A* is precisely as smart as the heuristics are, so this comparison doesn’t answer anything. it leaves open the actual question, which is how smart are the heuristics

my phrasing may have been unclear. and I did understand you were talking about the search process. by “well understood as A*” I did not mean “as well as A*”. I meant what it the argument that A* is a good analogy

you said “it’s A*” — it sounds like you’re now saying this is an analogy. I am asking why is it a good analogy

you said it’s A* and I said why is it A*. what is confusing here

I agree. it’ll be more worrying if attempts to further lock these sandboxes down fail repeatedly. of course to do that they will be using these same models to red team them

what is the argument that it is well understood as A* ? (and what is the “it”?)

that is true, but pattern matching is not a mechanical operation in the ordinary sense

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among other issues, this characterization has no way to account for the massive improvement current SOTA models make over SOTA models from a year ago

no

that’s a good analogy. setting initial conditions

they had to do exactly the same thing with sol!

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I don’t think it’s all or nothing, in the sense that this was expensive because it’s a big project, but the capability in operation is also in operation when you do things that cost a dollar