gwern had the best early take on gpt-3 and how it was so amazing.
Yudkowsky obviously thought about AI things so much, and he has many interesting ideas and he is the highest status poster on lesswrong dot com, but he admits he is not a great writer and I think not all his ideas are so great. For example I like Paul Christiano's ideas more (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35635345) although I have to credit Yudkowsky bc without such debate I am sure Christiano's ideas wouldn't have been put as clearly or publicly. Here's one of Yudkowsky's own tweets (March 24 2023) where he self-deprecatingly roasts his own bad writing by showing how GPT-4 writes it in a clearer way https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1639425421761712129
Slate Star Codex I don't like as much as either one and I don't think it has such new or interesting ideas, sorry it's only my opinion.
Yudkowsky obviously thought about AI things so much, and he has many interesting ideas and he is the highest status poster on lesswrong dot com, but he admits he is not a great writer and I think not all his ideas are so great. For example I like Paul Christiano's ideas more (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35635345) although I have to credit Yudkowsky bc without such debate I am sure Christiano's ideas wouldn't have been put as clearly or publicly. Here's one of Yudkowsky's own tweets (March 24 2023) where he self-deprecatingly roasts his own bad writing by showing how GPT-4 writes it in a clearer way https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1639425421761712129
Slate Star Codex I don't like as much as either one and I don't think it has such new or interesting ideas, sorry it's only my opinion.