ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
2hr ago
It's also the default logged-out behaviour.
ulyssessword
5hr ago
The AI starts its messages with "Better for you if you take me off.", but the mundane benefits are too much for you to give up, so you ignore it.
ulyssessword
5hr ago
Good luck convincing it of that.
ulyssessword
7hr ago
Imagine a chimpanzee trying to align a human being.
Humans are not aligned to chimp values, and that likely stays true for any intelligence that's "human" enough to count for the definition.
What could it really do other than try to be cute, to play on the human's affectionate and childraising instincts?
If the superintelligence was truly aligned, it wouldn't impose that cost on the chimps. They could simply go about their days doing chimp things.
If the chimpanzees create a being that requires cuteness and childishness to placate, may later consider them inconvenient, and is either motivated or careless enough to self-modify away from valuing chimpanzees, then they have failed at creating an aligned superintelligence.
ulyssessword
7hr ago
Sure, and (after sufficient setup) they can droneswarm the humans if we get out of hand.
ulyssessword
1d ago
Not when you can just give them the fun drugs in quantities sufficient to render their suffering moot.
I'm not a hedonic utilitarian: I'd rather die.
ulyssessword
2d ago
Are you looking at the right person? The white woman at the left of frame (front of the group) is a lawyer or something. She is the (light-skinned, to be fair) black woman near the center.
ulyssessword
3d ago
I'd rather have the responsibility fall to the agency than the surrogate, but that's just details.
In normal cases, the law recognizes the rights of a pregnant woman over both her own body and the fetus. Whoever provided the gametes gets basically nothing. A narrow exception feels wrong, and that should either be changed in general or not at all.
ulyssessword
3d ago
a model which was so powerful they had to hold it back for testing, not because of lack of compute, never that, but because of the extreme danger such a powerful, nay Mythical, model might pose to humanity.
Good call from them. Look at what happened with the Fable "jailbreak" and subsequent ban by the US government.
ulyssessword
4d ago
And when people who have actually bothered to read the article tell you it's not,
Who/where? Did they address the background of distrust to show that they're taking the objections seriously and not simply tricked by the rhetoric?
I checked this subthread, and the only object-level claim about the article is that it "...has a clear and coherent thesis". That's completely independent of it being (unnecessarily) inflammatory, or his honest opinion. Most good writers including effective trolls present their ideas in a clear and coherent way.
ulyssessword
4d ago
Do you think Magnus Carlsen could beat me at chess?
How? Which moves would he play? What mistakes would I make? You have no way of knowing how that particular game would go, after all.
Background information about a person can be used to predict what they will do, such as winning a chess match or writing an inflammatory and dishonest article.
ulyssessword
4d ago
Whatever they're doing now seems to work, or at least I've never heard of that being a problem. What happens if someone dies/retires and they're currently in the process of finding a ninth under the current rules?
ulyssessword
4d ago
Heck, just have 18-year terms with one appointed every two years, and let the number fall below nine if someone dies or retires.
ulyssessword
7d ago
Yes.
For Navier-Stokes specifically, they (claim to have) found one situation where the equations predict physically-impossible results. Someone else could find a different situation that also gave impossible results.
ulyssessword
7d ago
the state of the art for a heating system is a heat pump.
Using electricity from a natural gas turbine, or a different source?
(And yes, burning it in a turbine, generating electricity, transmitting it, and running a heat pump is usually more efficient than burning it directly in a furnace. )
ulyssessword
8d ago
It's just a slur.
The far-right is bad, the establishment wants to (deniably) call them bad, so they call them far-right. They wish describing them as being on the fringe was accurate.
ulyssessword
11d ago
also has published a "webfic bingo card".
44/182 here, 32 either finished or at the in-progress point, and 12 dropped after at least one book-equivalent. There are a few more I peeked at but never really picked up.
EDIT: Actually, I think a couple of those kept going after I decided they were finished, so maybe a 30-14 split or so.
ulyssessword
12d ago
the Balaji 'secede' call comes from media reporting rather than the actual speech.
I've heard of the politician's strategy of "If you don't like the question they asked, imagine a better one and answer that instead". I didn't think journalists were supposed to do "If you don't like the speech they gave, imagine a better one and report on that instead".
Assuming that there wasn't a different speech that he's referring to, it's just straight-up lies stacked on top of uncharitable extrapolation and deceptive framing. Who wouldn't want an alternative to that?
ulyssessword
12d ago
They did, though. Or are our memories that short?
Nah, your standards are too low. Their level of support is insufficient to partisans because they at least gesture at evenhandedness and classical liberal tendencies.
ulyssessword
14d ago
Yeah. Each model comes close to making back its investment in a few months. Then a newer model gets released before it can actually "break even", it lasts a few months, and the cycle repeats.
Also, the more efficient models already exist: The Sonnet/Mini/Flash tier is cheaper and only months behind the Opus/[non-specified]/Pro tier. It only seems like a lot because AI progress speeds are wild.
Either a weird half-transgender situation, or they screwed up between "paternity" and "parental". I'm guessing the latter.
EDIT: or it's two different people. Bob was fired after Alice gave birth to her second child.
ulyssessword
17d ago
a preference for the use of these words with attribution
Pseudo-neutrality like that may not be obvious favoritism, but it only takes one crack before the trick becomes clear. Now that it's been revealed to a broad audience, they had to stop.
A so-called "public broadcaster" that claims to employ "journalists" should know the difference between making plain statements and hiding behind the words of others. Their leadership does know that, and minimizing Islamic terrorism was a deliberate choice by them.
ulyssessword
18d ago
We evolved to
We evolved to do a lot of things, like running from lions, starving through famines, and living to the ripe old age of died-from-childbirth. The last few millennia of technological advancements have improved many things, including communication and education.
ulyssessword
18d ago
What's the overrepresentation ratio for creationists vs. atheists?
That would be the setup.
(Surely we would prove that they're truly aligned instead of just biding their time before giving them manufacturing capabilities, right?)
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