rationalists always say you can think anything in their spaces & they mean it. the most racist xenophobic neoreactionaries got years of being steelmanned and argued with politely. okay, sure
but say something way smaller and concrete, like 'this community has a problem with how
did another eval thing! this time not building one, just taking an existing one apart to see how it works. this was one by apart research
(if you're doing this kind of thing and want to do it together, or you know a discord or a group for it, lmk! would really like to meet more
turns out building evals is really nice and not that hard. still very much learning this, of course, but five days already taught me a lot. for those curious: messinecessity.substack.com/p/trying-to-ma…
