that's my quote, just want to add a few notes because I originally typed that out quickly in a comment on twitter and didn't expect it to get traction
1. At the time iirc maybe 60% of people meant something like "that's a reasonable symptom to run into from EA thinking, I've had something like it too, it's hard to fix even if you know it's not ideal". Although maybe 20% of people did think it actually just made sense as a way to operate and didn't see it as a big problem
2. I agree it's much less common now. I think it's possibly because EA has shifted more towards longtermism. Although around 2016 I switched to working on AGI safety which is very longtermist, so it's possible that's my local bias
3. Luckily the symptom was short lived, maybe ~4-6 weeks in total while I was also experiencing startup founder anxiety separate of EA. I consider myself maybe a little hurt by EA, but not that traumatized, and I still think it has lots of merits even if I don't identify as an "EA person" anymore
Yeah that’s right. There were very few strictly-bad ones across the entire thread of generations
The rejections were most commonly
1. Kind of just slightly boring or literally drawing the thing rather than being cool and artistic
2. Cool but similar to the artistic style of bios near it in the thread, whereas I wanted to keep it diverse (surreal followed by literal, oil followed by sharp lines etc) so it's more fun to scroll through
Whereas a few years ago generative models (GANs etc) would often render like static noise sometimes or completely wrong things. I've only seen that problem once with DALL-E across hundreds or thousands of images now (it generated a fully white image)
for that one IIRC I asked for a Robert Moses and one of the cooler ones had giant hands so I put that in the prompt then took two of my favorite from the next batch
Hey everyone, Nick here creator of the linked thread. I just wanted to link to another tweet I have with some details of how I made it.
TLDR it’s not just the bio pasted directly into dall-e and the images are cherry-picked but dall-e is basically doing 95% of the work here. I have no ability to make art myself, and I found I could illustrate basically any bio I wanted in a couple minutes of playing around. My goal was to create illustrations for my friends not create a dall-e gallery but I’m glad it ended up being a good example of what dall-e can do
It's unclear to me that we navigated the state space so discretely. My guess would be that we used a combination of rock throwing + stock hitting before eventually deciding that combining the two might be fruitful.
After the idea is polished it looks clever, but it may have been invented through a series of mostly random steps
Hi! I'm super curious about how you structured the input and output to the neural network, and which architecture you chose, if you're willing to share (I work at OpenAI)
If you do share I'm happy to give you feedback here if I have any!
Actually Einstein was great at reaching out to others in the field and discussing ideas with them. He also voraciously applied to various programs to find great places to work.
He’s no Edison in terms of networking, but it is interesting that even a cononical super-nerd creating theories in their basement (or patent-office) still gets value out of it.
It depends what you mean by cheap but you can live in Somerville next to Cambridge MA for a fraction of SF rent and be in perhaps the best intellectual environment in the world.