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* To determine whether AI is ‘improving exponentially’, ‘hitting the wall’, or any other claim which involves a quantity or magnitude (e.g. ‘This model was a big leap/small increment’). We need a good y-axis: an interval scale of AI capability which means +1 unit always represents the same degree of ‘how much better’, in the same way +1 degree Celsius is always the same amount of ‘how much hotter’.
* Yet there is no good y-axis for AI capability. All our...
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* The Long-Term Future Fund is closing down, and EA Funds is launching the Transformative AI Fund with a new full-time team.
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I believe EA Forum should (re-)consider adding auto-translated content by default. Has this been considered lately?
Observation: As a native german-speaker, auto-translated reddit-content has become extremely relevant in my google-results lately whenever I research something using german search terms.
Expected Effect: I believe this could have large outreach effects infering from how many german policy makers, altruistic donors or otherwise interested people (questions of ethics, economics, altruism, AI) I deem very much open to contents that EA has already produced very important and well-structured insights on but who are not really able and therefor unwilling to consume english content.
Discussion points: Auto-translations still aren't perfect but usually suffice by far to convey complex contents, even with complex topics. Even more importantly, contents are a lot less (to the extent that it has truly become negligible imo) distorted by auto-translations nowadays.
Short research says Google supports auto-translated contents if it's correctly highlighted as such (consistent with my search-results).