Chance-Device

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by Chance-Device 18d ago
A few ideas. It could engineer a small number of existing deadly viruses, each having different mechanisms of action and incubation periods, to become airborne and easily transmissible. Then release them simultaneously. Some of use would su
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by Chance-Device 18d ago
This is really a microcosm of one particular problem that AI presents to the world: what do people do when their labour is not required any longer? Here the worry is the social structures of mathematics are eroded such that fewer humans bec
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by Chance-Device 18d ago
Then we develop ways of breaking out of local maxima. Wherever we can recognise a problem we can solve it.
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by Chance-Device 19d ago
The two sides are more similar than you give them credit for.
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by Chance-Device 19d ago
This should have been in that super Dario game.
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by Chance-Device 19d ago
Yes, the way we treat animals is very bad, I agree with you. I don’t think this changes anything about what I have said.
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by Chance-Device 19d ago
Research into model welfare is justified by the mere possibility that we may be manufacturing countless instances of suffering entities. We owe it to them to ensure that we understand and attempt to minimise any suffering they may experienc
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by Chance-Device 19d ago
It’s interesting you know, back when music piracy was first a thing online, there was a popular idea, even backed by some research I think, that music piracy didn’t impact sales because people wouldn’t have had the money to buy that music o
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by Chance-Device 19d ago
I think you’re right actually. It has always been a thing, but I think maybe we were better at suppressing it in the past. It seems like this sort of open, grassroots warfare is new.
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by Chance-Device 19d ago
I think that’s letting people off the hook too easily. This sort of mob behaviour is simply normal. Normal means something that happens often, not something we find admirable. With a safety net it would be the same sort of thing - people de
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by Chance-Device 19d ago
You have to wonder?
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by Chance-Device 19d ago
I don’t think it’s the artists who are doing things like this. It’s usually people who aren’t directly impacted and are “working” on other people’s behalf who do this sort of thing. I suspect it’s power-seeking personalities using a sociall
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by Chance-Device 19d ago
That doesn’t even make sense. If you’re a customer before she puts up the sign it hasn’t magically made the coffee or the service worse. You want to force her to act the way you want, it’s that simple.
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by Chance-Device 19d ago
This isn’t really about AI, it’s about a culture where threats and coercion in service of one’s own ideology have become normalised.
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by Chance-Device 19d ago
If I’d said to you last year “Hey! I bet Canada is going to join the EU! No, of course not as charter-violating full member, as a newly invented ‘associate member’!” You’d probably have said “That’s both crazy and oddly specific, the chance
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by Chance-Device 19d ago
Stranger than fiction.
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by Chance-Device 21d ago
> On one hand - maybe yes??! No.
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by Chance-Device 21d ago
Indeed, O3 and the early ChatGPT 5 thinking mode models were like this. I stopped using ChatGPT for a while around this time and had a good experience using Claude exclusively, then I had to go back after Sol was released as Claude was driv
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by Chance-Device 21d ago
Claude thinks the user is always wrong. This was at its peak with Opus 4.8 but is still present in Opus 5 and to a lesser degree Fable. It’s extremely annoying. If the user asserts anything, Claude has to disagree with it. It has to tack on
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by Chance-Device 21d ago
I don’t think it’s good at doing that either.
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by Chance-Device 21d ago
He’s right though, this post says nothing non-obvious. It boils down to “AIs that can do some difficult things might be able to do other difficult things. Also: Danger!”. There isn’t enough here for it to be interesting.
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by Chance-Device 22d ago
> Also Nvidia isn’t really creating money That’s what loans are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation
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by Chance-Device 23d ago
I think he’s doing a relatively good job, given the framing he’s adopted, which is that AIs replacing all human labor and decision making is a historical inevitability over which we have no control and no choice. Do people not realise that
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by Chance-Device 23d ago
Well if your baseline scenario is that swarms of marauding kill bots murder everyone then yeah, this is all moot.
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by Chance-Device 23d ago
On competition between countries: you’re imagining the world economy as working in the same way pre and post AGI, I doubt it will work the same way at all. There is not a single country nor trading block on Earth who is going to allow some
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by Chance-Device 23d ago
I like the idea of pacing the frontier, but while we’re talking about restrictions, I like restrictions of another sort more. Namely, restricting the use of AI in corporate environments so that it does not destroy the economy as it advances
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by Chance-Device 23d ago
(btw the parent was flagged and dead when I tried to post this initially, no idea why. I hit vouch and it resurrected) > there are probably around 50-100 technical people who are crucial to moving the frontier forward. So, if you're
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by Chance-Device 25d ago
When you know something can be changed relatively easily, say compared to a building or a car, the tendency is to do it. Especially when there is no tight feedback loop telling you what is a right and wrong move. The churn is the result of
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by Chance-Device 25d ago
Thank you for the confirmation.
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by Chance-Device 27d ago
Please answer this question: do you or do you not train your models on anonymized user data, where those users have opted out of such training? The blog post appears to imply the answer to this is yes, as otherwise I assume it would be impo

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