Open Thread 230
This is the weekly visible open thread. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. ACX has an unofficial subreddit , Discord , and bulletin board , and in-person meetups around the world .
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- Published: June 27, 2022
- Source: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/open-thread-230
- Document ID:
2022-06-27_open-thread-230_full
Category Map
Brands
- Parti-20B (1 mentions)
Organizations
- Google (82 mentions)
- Astralcodexten Com (71 mentions)
People
- Scott (145 mentions)
- Gary Marcus (14 mentions)
- Vitor (8 mentions)
- Edwin Chen (4 mentions)
- Emil K (2 mentions)
- Cameron Bucker (1 mentions)
- Solenoid_Entity (1 mentions)
Places
- Mongolia (10 mentions)
Publications
- ACX Podcast (1 mentions)
- Emergent Abilities Of Large Language Models (1 mentions)
- Less Wrong Curated Podcast (1 mentions)
- Metaculus Journal Podcast (1 mentions)
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This is the weekly visible open thread. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. ACX has an unofficial subreddit , Discord , and bulletin board , and in-person meetups around the world . 95% of content is free, but for the remaining 5% you can subscribe here . In this week’s news: 1: Solenoid_Entity, who runs the ACX Podcast , is expanding his empire to run a Less Wrong Curated Podcast and Metaculus Journal Podcast . Good luck, Solenoid! 2: More volleys in recent AI conversations: Cameron Bucker (“debates in deep learning are now repeating the same mistakes as comparative psychology”), Edwin Chen (how do humans do on the same questions Gary Marcus asked GPT?), and a new paper, Emergent Abilities Of Large Language Models (formalizing the insight that as models scale up, they can do completely new types of tasks, not just the old tasks better). 3: Related: does anyone reading this have access to the new Parti-20B image model from Google? I would like to check whether I have won my bet with Vitor about image model progress. If yes, I will write a post about it and give you good publicity. Please contact me at scott[at]slatestarcodex[dot]com 4: In Obscure Pregnancy Interventions, I mentioned a Mongolian study found that air purifier use during pregnancy increased birth rate, but that nobody had tested yet whether it increased later-life IQ. Those results are now in and it appears that it does . Caveats (some from here ) only marginally significant, your area is probably less air polluted than Mongolia, normal air conditioners might work as air purifiers already. Update: Emil K says it seems p-hacked .