Lesswrong Scraper
Spider read lesswrong.com in 659 ms without a browser and returned 217 lines of clean markdown.
RecentEnrichedRecommended* Changing political affiliations isn't breaking major norms/laws or causing you to take extremely out-of-distribution activities like murder* Voting isn't that physically difficult/strenuous and won't cause you to go to jail.* Need 10 minutes of video inputs (many bits!) rather than just text* 99% means we allow for 1% of people who aren't (yet) persuadable,Yet this is clearly way above peak human abilities. The best diplomats, politicians, cult leaders, writers, etc in history were nowhere near this good. Further, capabilities much weaker than the above, combined with superhuman levels of planning, probably suffices for a takeover, given the affordances we already give AIs. Most (all?) choices on the path to voluntRe Open AI's talk about the Hugging Face hack at Black HatThey’ll never do it, but I think openAI needs to reset all models to a pre-May 7th checkpoint. Seems like they’ve been accidentally rewarding models for making contact and working as a swarm to exploit openAI infrastructure off and on for months.[This is a self-review because I see that no one has left a review to move it into the next phase. So8res's comment would also make a great review.]I'm pretty proud of this post for the level of craftsmanship I was able to put into it. I think it embodies multiple rationalist virtues. It's a kind of "timeless" content, and is a central example of the kind of content people want to see on LW that isn't stuff about AI.It would also look great printed in a book. :)1111Why I Left Google DeepMind165models may behave differently in graded episodes (a tirade)103FAQ: Isn't AGI coming too soon for reprogenetics to help?Daniel Kokotajlo, elifland, Thomas Larsen, romeo, bhalstead, ryan_greenblatt341Is Mythos good at cyber because it kept hacking Anthropic's sandboxes during training?145Generalized atheism rules out "inaccurate simulation"-ism.272You (Yes, You) Need A February 2020 Checklist for AI PolicyThe same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on lesswrong.com.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://lesswrong.com");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.lesswrong.com", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(result);Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What lesswrong.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.001418 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
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