LessWrong 2.0 Reader

I see you fixed the https issue. I think the resulting text snippets are reasonably related to the input question, though not overly so. Google search often answers questions more directly with quotes (from websites, not from books), though that may be too ambitious to match for a small project. Other than that, the first column could be improved with relevant metadata such as the source title. Perhaps the snippets in the second column could be trimmed to whole sentences if it doesn't impact the snippet length too much. In general, I believe snippets currently do to not show line breaks present in the source.

Ah, by the "software feedback loop" I mean: "At the point of time at which AI has automated AI R&D, does a doubling of cognitive effort result in more than a doubling of output? If yes, there's a software feedback loop - you get (for a time, at least) accelerating rates of algorithmic efficiency progress, rather than just a one-off gain from automation." 

I see now why you could understand "RSI" to mean "AI improves itself at all over time". But even so, the claim would still hold - even if (implausibly) AI gets no smarter than human-level, you'd still get accelerated tech development,  because the quantity of AI research effort would increase at a growth rate much faster than the quantity of human research effort. 

There's definitely a new trend towards custom-website essays. Forethought is a website for lots of research content, though (like Epoch), not just PrepIE.

And I don't think it's because of people getting more productive because of reasoning models - AI was helpful for PrepIE but more like 10-20% productivity boost than 100% boost, and I don't think AI was used much for SA, either.

Some things even withdraw. https://tsvibt.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-possible-shared-craft-of-deliberate.html#aside-on-withdrawal-and-the-leap https://tsvibt.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-hermeneutic-net-for-agency.html#withdrawal

Thanks - appreciate that! It comes up a little differently for me, but still an issue - we've asked the devs to fix. 

Update: HTTPS issue fixed. Should work now.

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I think it's very hard for a single step of evolution to create a balloon large enough to counteract the organism's weight, fill it with a lighter-than-air gas (e.g. hydrogen), and then adapt the organism for survival in the air.

Each one of these adaptations is not very useful without the others, so they must all evolve at once.

Thanks for your patience. I'd be happy to receive any feedback. Negative feedback especially.

Update: HTTPS should work now

Thanks Oli! I think the clustering issue is fixed now, looking into what's going on with the numbers.