gamerpuppy

Location: Seattle Remote: Yes. Hybrid 1-2 days possible. Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: C++, Rust, Java, system design / optimization, organizational improvement Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17_aW48jYNiy1o9mt8kqgs6Uw... Email: keegan.millard@gmail.com

I have been struggling with long covid for a bit over a year and I am looking for a lower stress work environment than amazon / big tech.

My resume is early career on paper yet I spent years obsessed with programming and side projects, exited masters program due to covid in 2020. I have strong fundamentals and am comfortable applying a from first principles approach.

Interested in psychology, history, design and soft sciences. Confident I can bring value to a team or org and open to casual chat to determine possibility of fit.

I really dislike holding up scientists as a type of person to aspire to. Science is just a tool, and is frequently used to damage the interest of the public good. I would rather venerate those who are veritably kind to their friends and community.

LLm's are agi, you can use them for anything so posts like "LLm's for x" are really so boring.

I could if I had strongly supportive cofounder… basically romantic partner level of commitment and enough time.

Yes it is obviously not an AGI in the sense of an intelligent, persistent agent, but it is also obviously a huge step towards one. It's like a single pass of thought on a topic, combined with self iteration and recursion in answer generation it would not be surprising to me if answers become an order of magnitude better. And we haven't even hit hardware limits.

I believe an order of magnitude stronger ChatGPT is an unacceptable risk to us all, it will let those who own and control it wield power which our government shows no sign of being able to regulate. We don't allow private research and ownership of nukes...

ChatGPT is general AI. It perform actions in a class requiring abstract thought which previously only humans were capable of. Sure the applications we see it is capable of are limited now, but that’s a consequence only of it’s operating environment. Using traditional AI techniques like tree search and recursive use of subproblems, which ChatGPT itself could design, it is not obvious to me that any problem is outside of it’s capability in solving.

As to why that is dangerous, there are many reasons.

1. It devalues human life for those in power. Technology has strictly increased wealth inequality over the last century and this takes it to the nth degree. 2. Even in its current form, it is having society destabilizing effects, go on reddit and see posts from high school students asking what they should even study when its clear ChatGPT will be able to do (research, programming, math) better than a degree will prepare them to. 3. Google the paperclip problem. 4. The amount of computing resources it takes to run ChatGPT is shockingly / absurdly low, we are far far from the hardware scaling limits of AI so it is obvious that it will continue to improve, even without further algorithmic breakthroughs.

We need to start talking about AI safety and nationalizing AI research like yesterday. ChatGPT is already having destabilizing effects and it is frightening how little we are discussing (this hugely powerful tool)'s potential as a weapon.