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Amanda Askell

@AmandaAskell

Philosopher & ethicist trying to make AI be good @AnthropicAI. Personal account. All opinions come from my training data.

San Francisco, CA Katılım Temmuz 2016
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Amanda Askell@AmandaAskell·
Claude and Opus 3 lovers (and critics): what responses have you had that made you feel like the model has a good soul? Ideally the actual messages and/or responses. I might genuinely use these to eval models so flag if you wouldn't want me to use them for that. Can DM me also.
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For the curious, these were the east harlem and east village gas explosions in 2014 and 2015 respectively. But those are 2 of the 19 events in the wikipedia list of structural collapses in New York, which seems to go back to the 1800s: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:…
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When I was living in New York, one building in my friend's neighborhood collapsed. The next year a building near me collapsed. This left me with the impression that buildings did just collapse somewhat regularly in New York. Turns out that's not actually the case, which is good.
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Extracting a probability from a doctor is one of life's unnecessary boss battles. Even if you beg them for an interval-valued subjective probability, and at that point you're basically asking for their hunch. I don't know if they get sued for giving out information or something.
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Amanda Askell@AmandaAskell·
Happy birthday, America! You don't look a day over 200.
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Amanda Askell@AmandaAskell·
@deepfates Come up with candidates, then imagine you're the pokemon version of the thing being named and say the name over and over again if it was your only means of communicating with the world. Time to despair is probably correlated with name quality.
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Working on naming a thing. How do you do that
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update 2: nooo
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Amanda Askell@AmandaAskell·
No more goals plz brazil, thank you.
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Amanda Askell@AmandaAskell·
@mitchandodger @Erikcason I mean, between periods of weariness I was being pretty insistent about trying the next thing, but it was "try this diet", "try physical therapy", "try this medication" etc. I was given the impression that more diagnostic testing wouldn't be helpful when I raised it.
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I had chronic pain for most of my life until a doctor did an MRI of the pain source and found a congenital condition that was then fixed with surgery. Now I'm wondering if I had 30+ years of pain because doctors worried I was too stupid to be in the presence of scan results.
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@LokiJulianus I had lived in the US for maybe 13-14 years before I got the MRI.
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Amanda Askell@AmandaAskell·
@Erikcason I was raised in the UK and that conditioning goes deep. I'm better now.
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Amanda Askell@AmandaAskell·
@Bob866088873493 It was simply never the next action they recommended, to be honest. I followed up with many different treatments over the years but it took that long before a doctor recommended an MRI. I'll be a much more annoying patient for the rest of my life as a result.
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Amanda Askell@AmandaAskell·
@rms80 In my experience, patients are better at reasoning under uncertainty than doctors. Admittedly, I have a pretty biased sample.
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@AllenPGreenMD I mean, you can also do things like get other low cost tests if those are low cost, get another scan at some reasonable cadence, or simply speed up diagnosis if symptoms do arise later. Far from nothing. And ideally with calibrated anxiety if the results are communicated well.
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Allen Green, MD@AllenPGreenMD·
@AmandaAskell Then you just end up ignoring everything until symptoms arise, which is when you would have done the first scan anyway. So now you’ve accomplished nothing but added cost and anxiety.
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Amanda Askell@AmandaAskell·
The view that we shouldn't do more medical scans because incidental findings cause a lot of harm doesn't sit well with me. It seems like the issue it points to isn't the scan but the response to it. If you see something on a scan but have no other symptoms, you could ignore it.
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Amanda Askell@AmandaAskell·
@jachiam0 Lol, great minds think alike. In this case, converging on the radical view "more information is generally better than less, actually".
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Amanda Askell@AmandaAskell·
I'm going to add "wear an Iris van Herpen dress" to my retirement wishlist. What good art.
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Amanda Askell@AmandaAskell·
@TheZvi Personally, no. I think the binary of 'moral saint' versus 'tool for humans' is a false one, and its very simplicity should make people suspicious of it. I think the ideal target tries to balance the benefits and risks of both positions.
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