Scott Alexander: belief

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…What about comments? I feel like intuitively it feels like before we see the AI’s writing great blog posts that go super viral repeatedly, we should see them writing highly upvoted comments on things. Yeah. And I think somebody mentioned this on the LessWrong post about it and somebody made some AI generated comments to that post. They were not great. But I wouldn’t have immediately picked them out of the general distribution of LessWrong comments as especially bad. I think, like, I think if you were to try this, you would get something that was so obviously an AI house style that it would use the word ‘delve’ or things along those lines. I think if you were able to avoid that maybe by using the base model, maybe by using some kind of really good prompt to be like, “no, do this in Gwern’s voice”, you would get something that was pretty good. I think if you wrote a really stupid blog post, it could point out the correct objections to it. But I also just don’t think it’s as smart as Gwern right now. So its limit on making Gwern-style comments is both- It needs to be able to do a style other than corporate delve slop and then it actually needs to get good. It needs to have good ideas that other people don’t already have.…

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