JoshTriplett

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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
> When both conditions are met, the loop body is replaced with a call to std::this_thread::yield(). Insert screaming here. An infinite loop, with no library calls whatsoever, gets a system call inserted. That's a horrible surprise
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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
Imagine actually asking permission to use other people's work to train AI. Imagine respecting the answer of "no" .
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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
There are already widespread attempts, by both red and blue proponents of AI, to paint opposition to AI as being from the other side. Hopefully those ad-hominem arguments will peter out as it becomes clear that opposition is bipartisan.
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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
It's not just you.
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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
I would personally expect so, but your mileage may vary. Controlling for the fact that you didn't find the former persuasive, my first thought would be that the latter might help. Among other things, it is much more specific and detai
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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
That's a fascinating assumption, and I wonder how you got to it, because it doesn't match anything I've ever seen. Most groups look more homogeneous from the outside than the inside. You are assuming their belief is religious
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by JoshTriplett 8d ago
> Real experts can explain their position plainly. That has not happened here. It has, over, and over, and over. There is literally a book on it . https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/
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by JoshTriplett 9d ago
In fairness, while there was definitely Mozilla mismanagement, there was also a massive monopolistic marketing/bundling campaign by Chrome. Google search and other properties pushed Chrome, Google paid application publishers to bundle
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by JoshTriplett 9d ago
> But this is probably forgiven as just sensationalism in writing Why should we forgive sensationalism in writing at all?
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by JoshTriplett 9d ago
Valid pedanticism!
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by JoshTriplett 9d ago
Companies in some cases manage to convince governments to let them watch themselves. (This is not always a bad thing. For instance, content ratings have basically been fine, and it's mostly a good thing when they're not controlled
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by JoshTriplett 10d ago
That's exactly the point: it's not as if anything is being gained by it being proprietary, because nothing is actually secret.
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by JoshTriplett 10d ago
> That will work until it very suddenly doesn't. Exactly. Once upon a time, cable didn't have ads, which was its primary advantage. Then they realized that they could charge money for the service and advertise to you.
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by JoshTriplett 10d ago
Why is Claude Code still proprietary, while Codex is Open Source? What would it take to fix that? This is a major reason to pick OAI models over Anthropic (because while you can use an open agent with any model, the AI labs charge much more
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by JoshTriplett 10d ago
Relatedly, look at the concept of "twilight anesthesia".
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by JoshTriplett 10d ago
> I would argue that if a human has absolutely zero change, mental or physical, no atom of their being is modified, then no they did not experience suffering. Just because you don't remember the suffering doesn't mean you did
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by JoshTriplett 10d ago
They don't have to reason specifically "similar to human" in order to do dangerous things they were not instructed to do that represent instrumentally converged goals.
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by JoshTriplett 10d ago
neverssl.com
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by JoshTriplett 10d ago
Cynicism misfire. AI companies are, rightfully, heavily distrusted. But the right application of cynicism is not "existential risk is a marketing campaign"; that's absurd motivated reasoning. The right application of cynicism
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by JoshTriplett 11d ago
It seems like you're assuming that it's impossible to have novel thoughts without consciousness. (Leaving aside that "that would imply some kind of consciousness" should not result in a cached thought of "and that&#
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by JoshTriplett 12d ago
> Reservations are currently not available for customers who have not made a purchase on Steam before Mon, April 27, 2026. As someone who made a purchase on steam (that I can't even play) after the release of the Steam Machine, but
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by JoshTriplett 12d ago
I do. I can "play it back" in my head, with full music/lyrics/chords/etc.
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by JoshTriplett 12d ago
Does it apply to audio as well? If you think of a song you know well, do you feel like you "hear" the music in your head, as though playing back an audio file? If you think of a movie scene you've seen, what is that like? Can
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by JoshTriplett 12d ago
Exactly. Without the confident incorrect assertion "There is no evidence that this will happen", the whole rest of the post is invalid.
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by JoshTriplett 13d ago
Evidence is critically important. There is no evidence against, and plenty of evidence for. The point of the anthropic counterargument is merely that "it's never happened before" is not evidence against.
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by JoshTriplett 13d ago
When LLMs act in misaligned ways, that doesn't happen because there's some story they're roleplaying of a misaligned AI. Even if there were no such stories in their context, they'd still have inherent incentives to do
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by JoshTriplett 13d ago
The anthropic principle isn't providing evidence for the argument, nor is it a universal counterargument. It's just stating that the specific counterargument "well, the world has never ended before " doesn't work
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
And, in particular, because unlike the English norm, the noun is first and the adjective second. Courts martial. Daughters-in-law. Passers-by. Professors Emeriti. Secretaries general. Agents provocateurs.
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
If you stop going "nobody will do anything actually effective", and start going "how do we do something actually successful", any number of successful ideas start readily arising. It is possible to stop. Not easy, but po
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
We've also agreed, for instance, not to do certain types of testing anymore. Just as we could agree to stop training even larger frontier models.

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