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In a maximally earnest way — to what degree should we be sure these language harms are real on net? Are there data as opposed to anecdata? (Of course many phenomena are real without data; we can just be more confident in cases with data)

Why We Think 10 months ago

Lillian’s blog is extremely good in general & if it’s new to you I suggest checking out the other posts also. I particularly enjoyed the one on human data.

Isn’t the answer to the question just classic economies of scale?

You can’t run GPT4 for yourself because the fixed costs are high. But the variable costs are low, so OAI can serve a shit ton.

Or equivalently the smallest available unit of “serving a gpt4” is more gpt4 than one person needs.

I think all the inference optimisation answers are plain wrong for the actual question asked?

It’s interesting that this is a competition elite enough that several posters on a programming website don’t seem to understand what it is.

My very rough napkin math suggests that against the US reference class, imo gold is literally a one in a million talent (very roughly 20 people who make camp could get gold out of very roughly twenty million relevant high schoolers).

I think your threat model is bad — the isolation of accounts offers little and most people have effectively only the security of their email provider anyway.

That said, buying several keys would be a natural and happy path solution for the paranoid. Make sure to get three for each account (same as primary) as either you need a backup or the extra key offers no extra security.