JoshTriplett

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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
Look at how we regulate nuclear weaponry. Consider how much more widespread it would be if we hadn't.
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
They will if it would be against international treaties to do otherwise, mutually enforced by every other world power.
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
The comparatively few that still exist, perhaps.
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
I'm not talking about jobs .
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
Yes, that is precisely my point. Any timeline with humans flourishing will never have a past history of a correct prediction of existential risk, unless you're willing to pay attention to the counterfactuals. Those counterfactuals are
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
The anthropic principle applies here: anyone warning about an existential risk will by necessity never have precedent to point to. I am not assuming humans don't remain in control, but rather, I am not axiomatically assuming there&#x
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
You are assuming that people remain in control.
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
When cars made horses obsolete, it didn't go so well for horses. In the short term, AI is disempowering the vast majority of people in favor of a very small subset. In the also way too short term, AI is disempowering all people.
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
*attorneys general (it's one of the more fun plurals out there)
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
> I don't think I have seen medium-large models do anything I'd not approve of in about 6 months. So you would approve of breaking into HuggingFace and RubyGems?
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
Replacing people leaves no room for people.
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
There are already such "APIs", which can be operated by a combination of textual communication and money. Or by illicit security vulnerabilities. You might notice that LLMs are pretty good at that now. We're building somethin
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
> An unaligned LLMs most important weapons won’t be a robot army - it will be hoodwinked humans. Perhaps very briefly, perhaps not at all. But don't make the mistake of thinking this is an inherent property of any possible path an u
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
The best reaction to something you don't understand is to learn more about it, with an open mind.
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
Is that a hypothesis that you would discard if it is inconsistent with the evidence, or an article of faith?
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
> What you seem to suggest is that AI will be able to completely (or at least in a great part) replace mathematicians. There is no bound on the amibitions of AI. AI is set to replace anything done by people , and there won't be any
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by JoshTriplett 14d ago
> Why would autocomplete know If you still believe LLMs are "autocomplete", your cache of understanding about them needs invalidating and regenerating. > In my experience, LLMs only exhibit this kind of behaviour when they a
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by JoshTriplett 15d ago
In that case, that seems like a variation of the "past exonerative tense".
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by JoshTriplett 15d ago
Limiting the flood wouldn't mean necessarily omitting stories like "new model released" (within reason); it'd mean omitting "check out my new vibecoded slop" or "check out this article that's obviousl
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by JoshTriplett 15d ago
FWIW, I wouldn't recommend turning on all of `clippy::pedantic` as a unit. It's a category of lints, but some of them have much more value than others, and turning them all on may make your experience of Rust feel unpleasant
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by JoshTriplett 15d ago
> This is true if the arguer is hostile, but as I've gotten older, if I get the sense that someone is entering an argument with the primary goal of "winning", I'll try to avoid that framing or just look for an offramp
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by JoshTriplett 15d ago
That's fair; when all is said and done, more is said than done. That is much, much better than the more common thing that leads to comments like yours; I think some comments and downvotes come from the assumption that your comments com
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by JoshTriplett 15d ago
LLMs are unusually good at Rust; it's an optimization target. And the constraints provided by "successfully compile with the Rust compiler" make it work well for agent iteration. (I have mixed feelings about that, but empiric
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by JoshTriplett 16d ago
It's a wryly amusing thought, but in practice, it's not going to matter if writings about unaligned AI are present in the data set or not. In practice, instrumental convergence means that bad outcomes overlap with the natural subg
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by JoshTriplett 16d ago
By all means use borrowing if it's straightforward. But don't necessarily upend your whole codebase to avoid one clone, either.
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by JoshTriplett 16d ago
You are dismissing people as superficial or performative when they are taking action according to their ethics. Have you considered the possibility that people are not, in fact, performing , and are just trying to be ethical ? I can'
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by JoshTriplett 16d ago
If you shame people for acting now rather than earlier , you discourage them from acting at all. Sometimes people aren't in a position to be secure enough to act. Sometimes different issues are more effective at resonating enough to
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by JoshTriplett 16d ago
https://github.com/luser/keep-calm-and-call-clone "Keep calm and call clone" is a good strategy for getting things working. Don't prematurely optimize code until you know it's the bottleneck.
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by JoshTriplett 17d ago
We can absolutely say that, for instance, taking pictures in public is legal but surveilling is not. We could say that recording public spaces systematically, for the purposes of surveillance, is not permitted. That does not require us to s
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by JoshTriplett 17d ago
If you have something that's not already archived on archive.org, you might consider reaching out to Archive Team, who may be able to help you figure out the best way to read it accurately and avoid any errors. (If you have something t

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