The top image is a nice example of good science commication we could do more of.
It is:
Simple (it’s a big squiggly monster with a smily face mask)
Conveys an important idea (LLMs might seem friendly, but we don’t understand how they work and if you dig a bit they are utterly alien to us, providing strange and scary answers
High fidelity (this image has already been remixed 1000s of times and it still always conveys it’s central idea)
Emotionally resonant (“on this is concerning, what should we do about it”)
(And it was it was initially created by EA twitter’s very own Tetraspace)
Holden and Yudkowsky are both very good at making complicated ideas into simple sharable ones—paperclips, King Lear problem.
If you find you have a talent for explaining things (or doodling) you might do well to make memes like this. Who knows where they will end up. (I am assuming that explaining things well is net good but I guess it has very large variance)
I agree with everything, and still want to point out that not so long later, Musk decided to try removing the “woke” part, so maybe he shared this meme for different reasons than you or me would share it
This article is evidence that Elon Musk will focus on the “wokeness” of ChatGPT, rather than do something useful about AI alignment. But still, we should keep in mind that news are very often incomplete or simply just plain false.
Thanks for writing this.
The top image is a nice example of good science commication we could do more of.
It is:
Simple (it’s a big squiggly monster with a smily face mask)
Conveys an important idea (LLMs might seem friendly, but we don’t understand how they work and if you dig a bit they are utterly alien to us, providing strange and scary answers
High fidelity (this image has already been remixed 1000s of times and it still always conveys it’s central idea)
Emotionally resonant (“on this is concerning, what should we do about it”)
(And it was it was initially created by EA twitter’s very own Tetraspace)
https://twitter.com/TetraspaceWest/status/1608966939929636864?s=20
Holden and Yudkowsky are both very good at making complicated ideas into simple sharable ones—paperclips, King Lear problem.
If you find you have a talent for explaining things (or doodling) you might do well to make memes like this. Who knows where they will end up. (I am assuming that explaining things well is net good but I guess it has very large variance)
I agree with everything, and still want to point out that not so long later, Musk decided to try removing the “woke” part, so maybe he shared this meme for different reasons than you or me would share it
Fighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival
This article is evidence that Elon Musk will focus on the “wokeness” of ChatGPT, rather than do something useful about AI alignment. But still, we should keep in mind that news are very often incomplete or simply just plain false.
Also, I can’t access the article.
Related: I’ve recently created a prediction market about whether Elon Musk is going to do something positive for AI risk (or at least not do something counterproductive) according to Eliezer Yudkowsky’s judgment: https://manifold.markets/Writer/if-elon-musk-does-something-as-a-re?r=V3JpdGVy
+1 for creating that market! :)
Hard agree, the shoggoth memes are great.