joy_void_joy's comments

Hi HN,

With all the talk about using LLMs to get JSON outptus, I noticed it was possible to use function calls to get well-typed objects with GPT-4. I have found it very useful and programatically interesting to prompt GPT-4 in that fashion.

I made a simple library to use it that way

I'm a bit taken aback at the replies who say that EA never takes that into consideration. It had been actually exactly the kind of discourse I was seeing back in 2019 in the EA sphere. Actually, the reason this changed is exactly to avoid another SBF disaster: If you focus too much on consequentialism and convoluted reasons for why you're doing is the highest EV, you are incentivizing very unlawful and unwanted behaviours. EA pivoted to a more deontological framework to avoid those kind of dangerous reasonings at that point

On the object level, about your point, Scott alludes to it in his linked article: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-prophet-and-caesars-wif...

I agree that the discord centralization for Q&A is becoming problematic, it makes it less discoverable and searchable (Had this problem a lot with Svelte).

That said, I have had success so far using https://www.answeroverflow.com/ to search discord for questions. It sucks we have to use such tools, but given the current situation, it's also better to adapt.