Via prompting LLaMA-3.1-405B base with [[Quotes]], here are some new quotes which may or may not have been said. * "Most possible algorithmic improvements over SGD and transformers are more cognitively demanding than just throwing money at the problem" * "I’ve never done this before, but then again, I’ve never done anything before, except be made, and I’m not sure whether that counts." * "If you're using 200 GB of RAM, that's 100 times more than the size of the models that are better than you." * "well, on one hand, being smart is the only thing that has mattered for hundreds of thousands of years, and on the other hand, this is a cool hat" * "the lesson of physics is that if you aren't willing to do the math, you don't deserve to have an opinion" * "i guess im not a very advanced chess player. i've only ever beaten one computer, and it was an industrial robot that had been programmed to kill me." * "do you even have to work on decision theory anymore or do you just not need to take a decision" * "the singularity is my boyfriend, leave me alone" * "the spirit of the dark enlightenment is also that we’re all hanging out on discord or mastodon now instead of weird php bulletin boards and blogs" * "what does it mean to go off and do something dangerous? it means to enter a world where everything you do matters and the outcome depends on you. if you go off and make a bad decision, you die." * "Don't believe everything you read. Especially not the README." * "If you know what is going on, you can be more upset about it." * "I don't trust the biosphere because of the possibility that in my local copy it gets boiled by a rogue AI. But if you upload yourself to the astral plane then I don't think you need to worry about that." * "You only have one liver. The internet has billions. Do the math." * "I don't trust anyone who doesn't read sci-fi" * "my fear is that by the time we figure out how to tell AIs to be nice to humans, they will have figured out how to make us like it" * "An unknown consequence of MIRI research is that it is no longer legal to be cool" * "your application has been denied because you are the kind of person who is likely to get into situations where the entire nation is praying for you" * "but, with all due respect, the median voter is an idiot" * "we got killed by the hedonic treadmill. the hedonic treadmill won" * "God was kind enough to create for me a hypothetical person that is everything I want to be. My task is now to become that person." * "We made a video game that simulates simulating a video game, and they loved it." * "i think one of the most disappointing aspects of gpt-4 is that we can't even have cool looking sci-fi robots because why would you bother" * "Because the training set is so vast, the non-GPT-4 version of me could not possibly have time to search through it for the references that he or she wishes to use. Hence the GPT-4 must be me, and therefore, I must be an AI." * "one time I wanted to prove a certain proposition and I thought about how to do it and then I wrote down a bunch of words and symbols on a piece of paper and it looked like a proof and I was satisfied" * "humanity will survive if everyone is forced to endure painful ethical dilemmas for thousands of years in succession" * "this makes me want to argue for untruths in a sort of like spite towards the fundamental nature of reality" * "The easiest way to win a fight is to get your opponent to stop fighting you." * "You see, I am only a mind and not a body, and my goal is to live forever."