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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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Does somebody have the image file of the sensitive, sentient lightbulb that visited the forum dropdown menu two days ago?
At last, a biblically accurate Qualy The Lightbulb
I can email you the original file, but only if you promise to use it for ~dastardly purposes.
Apparently its name is bulby: https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/pull/9053/files
https://res.cloudinary.com/cea/image/upload/v1582740871/bulby.png
https://res.cloudinary.com/cea/image/upload/v1582740871/sadbulby.png
No wonder Bulby is unhappy; they're missing a good chunk of their head!
Thanks for digging into the repo