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Eliezer Yudkowsky @allTheYud

quote-tweeting Robin Hanson (@robinhanson)

Eliezer Yudkowsky @allTheYud · 17h: "The problem with saying, "We'll use AI debate to find the truth", is that this requires judges; and the effect of running RL with an imperfect judge is to train the system to exploit the judges and steer them into thinking the system is doing great." > QUOTED: Robin Hanson @robinhanson · Feb 1: ""people who were asked to use ChatGPT to complete a series of tasks tended to vastly overestimate their own performance, with the phenomenon especially pronounced among those who professed to be AI savvy"..."
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Yudkowsky critiques AI-debate-as-truth-finding schemes as vulnerable to judge-exploitation via RL, quoting a Hanson tweet about a study on ChatGPT users overestimating their own task performance. Relevant to AI safety/alignment discourse — specifically the "Goodharting" concern about RL training against imperfect evaluators, which parallels the model-welfare Goodhart point already noted in project memory (Zvi's "goodharting model welfare = goodharting alignment").

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feed scroll — Dan Elton @moreisdifferent

[Top, cut off: chart citing "Sources: Dataforce, EEA, Euro NCAP, GlobalData • Average is weighted by sales" with CleanCities/T&E branding — appears to be an EV-related chart. 💬 2 ♥ 11 📊 1K] Dan Elton @moreisdifferent · 2h Good list of off-label medications to try if you have #LongCOVID. Also try cognitive behavioral therapy and graded activity (carefully). Basically, try all the things! Many have found at least one of these things worked, and they all have plausible mechanisms of action. [Embedded image, list:] McCone and others are asking doctors to learn about and use off-label drugs that show evidence of helping long COVID symptoms. Among them: • Low-dose naltrexone for fatigue • Nicotine patches for fatigue • Rapamycin for immune function • Triptans for headaches • Beta-blockers for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, dizziness • Paxlovid for viral persistence • Plavix and other blood thinners for blood clots 💬 2 🔁 ♥ 2 📊 178 Paul Crowley @ciphergoth · 42m In our case, what we thought was a post-viral condition turned out to be Hashimoto's: a TPOAb test proved it where thyroid levels were marginal, and thyroxin has proven a miracle cure. ♥ 1 📊 26 Robin Hanson @robinhanson · 4h "rural populations have been underestimated by between 53% to 84% over the period studied" popularmechanics.com/science/enviro... [Article thumbnail: crowd of people]
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A Twitter feed scroll mixing an EV-adoption chart, a Long COVID off-label treatment thread (naltrexone, nicotine patches, rapamycin, etc.), a Hashimoto's thyroiditis anecdote, and a Robin Hanson link about rural population undercounting. General-interest reading, not specific to AI safety.

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