CosmicExplorer

It just jumped up to 13.2% Well, because humans are not as widely knowledgeable, but still, to completely replace, let's say, an accountant, AI would need to have at least 95%+ pass rate on something like agents last exam. I think either there will be some bottleneck and it will not happen on a large scale, or when it happens, it will be fast, like if AI crosses some reliability threshold in those hard job tasks, I can't imagine capitalism will not lead to white-collar job losses at a massive scale quickly.

"In psychotherapy, practically the only consistent finding is that whatever kind of psychotherapy the person running the study likes is most effective. Thirty different meta-analyses have confirmed this" https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-out-of-control/ https://jonathanshedler.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Shedler-2018-Where-is-the-evidence-for-evidence-based-therapy.pdf

@Leo Gura Installing a mosquito net on my windows completely solved that problem for me. It was one of my best purchases ever, great cost to usefulness ratio.

That's the main reason why I think current AI will not get to AGI, nor replace white-collar jobs, reliability. Humans are much more reliable than even the current best models. Even if current LLM based AI reaches something that can be called AGI for average scores, the reliability will lag behind. It's extremely hard for this architecture to reach 99% reliability score, even on simpler tasks, and humans are usually more reliable than 99% In the Agents Last Exam benchmark, current AI has a 10.5% "pass rate"/reliability on real-world, economically valuable tasks. Not even close to enough.

Holy shit AI is so stupid sometimes

What about a benchmark like ARC-AGI-3? They give AI a private set of games that AI has not seen before, with no instructions or rules on how to play a game, they have to adapt on the fly to novel interactive environments. It's not just brute-forcing it as they very heavily penalise it in their scoring system. Humans are scoring ~50% on it, current best AI is 7.8%. It still sucks compared to humans but it's not 0. AI is able to solve some levels.

All mental disorders exist on a continuum (shades of gray), and the exact line dividing "normal" from "disordered" is fundamentally a human made construct. In a sense, everybody experiences micro manic and micro depressive episodes because everybody's mood is variable.

If I would have to bet my money on it, I would bet that Connor, during those last 6 years, was more happy than the average person. I don't think it was a suicide. I think it's likely that his death was actually caused by not enough neuroticism rather than too much.

His last(?) interview from 3 weeks ago. Seems completely normal here.

I wouldn't be surprised if he really was taking meth, cocaine, MDMA, and fentanyl as he mentions here, in 4:04 he's clearly on MDMA his pupils are huge

I'm curious what toxicology tests will show

The market doesn't necessarily have to crash, it can also just go kind of sideways for a decade or with mediocre 3% returns a year. The expected return for the next decade is very low right now.

Don't underestimate extremely elevated mood states. Most people have never experienced them so they can't even imagine how powerful that is. Mood is like a lens that colors absolutely everything you're experiencing. Most humans, for most of the time, are in a very narrow "normal" mood state, yet that "normal" mood is arbitrary, it just so happens that it's most conducive to survival, so evolution shaped most humans that way. On the extremes, mood can get so insane that it's impossible to explain to somebody who hasn't experienced it. Mania can get so strong that you feel literally invincible, your mind works faster than on meth, a million ideas a minute, unlimited energy levels and no need for sleep, even physical pain can not bother you. On the opposite spectrum, depression/bad mood can get so strong that orgasm is experienced as painful/bad valence, you're constantly in insane emotional pain for no reason and get angry when you wake up in the morning because you wish to die. Mood colors everything, and you're always in a mood.

Connor took looksmaxing seriously

It's insane how many horrible things happen when people, especially low consciousness/low development, are intoxicated with alcohol. One of the most irrational things in society I can think of is that alcohol is legal, and all the other drugs that cause less harm are not. I'm not necessarily for or against the legalisation of hard drugs, but for that to make at least some sense. Either we delegalize alcohol, or legalise drugs that are beyond a reasonable doubt, not more harmful to society than alcohol, which are almost all drugs. I'm a taxi driver, and alcohol is the cause of 90%+ of the biggest problems and risks in my job. I would rather have clients who are zombies on fentanyl, or even people on meth (but meth only, not on a combination of drugs, as it's almost always the case), than have to deal with people on alcohol. It's really hard to think about a worse drug from a harm to society perspective.