AlphaAndOmega0

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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
Do you have any actual concrete reasons for thinking that our understanding of consciousness will change? If not, then this is a pointless comment. We need to work with what we know. For example, we know that the Standard Model of physi
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
I strongly value autonomy and the right of self-determination in humans (and related descendants, I'm a transhumanist). I'm not a biological chauvinist, but I care about humans ubër alles, even if they're not biological hum
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by AlphaAndOmega0 1y ago
The author and Anthropic are both committing fundamental errors, albeit of different kinds. Bosch is correct to find Anthropic's "model welfare" research methodologically bankrupt. Asking a large language model if it is consc
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by AlphaAndOmega0 2y ago
Daniel Kokotajlo released the (excellent) 2021 forecast. He was then hired by OpenAI, and not at liberty to speak freely, until he quit in 2024. He's part of the team making this forecast. The others include: Eli Lifland, a superforeca
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by AlphaAndOmega0 2y ago
If you don't know what the text says, do you have access to some other form of ground truth? Because otherwise you don't know if they're reading illegible labels correctly !
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by AlphaAndOmega0 2y ago
They're a better depiction of Vampires than most, with Watts doing everything he could to make them biologically plausible (that can only go so far). That being said, I found the way they were "shackled" to be ridiculous. If
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by AlphaAndOmega0 2y ago
It's a reference to the practise of scavenging steel from sources that were produced before nuclear testing began, as any steel produced afterwards is contaminated with nuclear isotopes from the fallout. Mostly ship wrecks, and WW2 mea
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by AlphaAndOmega0 2y ago
OAI doesn't show the actual COT, on the grounds that it's potentially unsafe output and also to prevent competitors training on it. You only see a sanitized summary.
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by AlphaAndOmega0 3y ago
I for one am glad I can offload all the regex to LLMs. Powerful? Yes. Human readable for beginners? No.