80 – The Reward and Peril of GPT2

Join us as we sit down with Alexander Wales (returning from Episode 63 about rational fiction and writes rational short stories, like the very popular Metropolitan Man) who is on to guide our discussion of GPT2, a new neural net language model/text analyzer/…author? Discussed in this Episode: Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences Can AI Change Your Mind (AI debate) Alexander is currently writing Worth the Candle! The book Eneasz mentioned, The Monster Baru Cormorant Be sure to check out Eneasz’s book, What Lies Dreaming and Vote for What Lies Dreaming at Top Web Fiction! LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct “Statistical Bias” Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Useful Statistical Biases The Error of Crowds The Majority Is Always Wrong Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here! We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here!