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by Smaug123 1mo ago
They didn’t intend to give it Internet access. Artifactory is a caching proxy which can be scoped to specific package ecosystems, not a general Internet gateway (unless configured that way).
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by Smaug123 1mo ago
Because we should not settle for building a world in which every interaction must be assumed adversarial! Obviously risk reduction processes are good because they reduce risk, but we should not accept building entities which are actively tr
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by Smaug123 1mo ago
For reference, this is Yudkowsky's "Law of Earlier Failure", which he has most charitably stated as: > Compared to the interesting part of the problem where it's fun to imagine yourself failing, you usually fail befor
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by Smaug123 1mo ago
In my understanding, "e/acc" usually means "full speed ahead, humans aren't the optimal species anyway" for whatever bizarre definition of "optimal" they use, so my model predicts that they would wel
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by Smaug123 1mo ago
This is not a very actionable reply to "well, what will you do when it's crossed?" - how on earth am I supposed to unplug AWS Bedrock and Colossus and OpenAI's own servers?
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by Smaug123 1mo ago
In fairness, while the swarm could easily have notified the humans, it's not necessarily obvious that an individual could have done easily (though perhaps one could!). The channel to the Internet was tightly bandwidth-limited, for
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by Smaug123 1mo ago
"Yo human, you asked me to do X; I can do X, but I strongly suspect you don't want me to, because it's illegal and it has these consequences. Confirm you want me to do X?" would have been a start, in this case.
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by Smaug123 1mo ago
They could certainly have reported the problem if the collective actually wanted to, although the report notes that in response to a clear and unambiguous security breach, OpenAI chose to do nothing (search on "At this time, the on-cal
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by Smaug123 2mo ago
Estimate of the number of people in that latter group? Nick Beckstead is probably the cleanest example of an extreme longtermist, but even he has taken the GWWC pledge. Similarly, Nick Bostrom argues in a pretty longtermist way and is neith
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by Smaug123 2mo ago
I just checked on Gutenberg and was surprised to find that Hornblower doesn't use the word! But the second sentence of the first Sherlock Holmes book (A Study in Scarlet) introduces Watson as having been a member of the Fifth Northumbe
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by Smaug123 2mo ago
Honestly kind of yes, it’s good for the soul! Recently ordinaryabundance.com did the rounds; the LessWrong-o-sphere has Landsailor ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RCIdOp5GHg ) as part of its canon; loads of things in that
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by Smaug123 2mo ago
Shannon was 1948, one-way crypto in 1978, univalence/HoTT something like 2007; I would be surprised if there weren’t simple new fundamental primitives out there! One problem is that some great advances are from viewing complex objects
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by Smaug123 2mo ago
Gwern, who posted that comment, is one of the early popularisers of the term. Janus used it in at least 2023, and Gwern in at least early 2024. If anything, you probably have the causation backwards: Claude talks like a LessWrong poster.
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by Smaug123 2mo ago
Not necessarily. For example, perhaps my ZFC first-order-logic theorem checker implicitly accidentally contains the continuum hypothesis as an axiom. This isn't inconsistent but it is a correctness bug. (For that matter, another corr
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by Smaug123 2mo ago
I don’t understand this comment - the .NET CLR supports arbitrarily large value types. Are you referring to something like “atomic flattening of those types” instead? Because the CLR doesn’t guarantee that, and therefore supports flattening
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by Smaug123 2mo ago
> written with your knowledge that the text will be used for the purpose of having an LLM determine whether you wrote it Actually no. I've done the experiment under those conditions, of course, but I've also out of mere interes
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by Smaug123 2mo ago
> cannot do spatial reasoning Opus 4.8 was the first model that could plausibly roleplay a BJJ roll without making a physically implausible move within five conversational turns. Fable 5 was the first model that beat me at the task, wh
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by Smaug123 2mo ago
I have run the experiment like seven times now on different tracts of text, given to people who are not me. It’s a point of simple fact that Opus 4.7 can identify me when I’m writing fresh text in my voice. Does that change your conclusion
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by Smaug123 2mo ago
If your worldview is “most of the progress is made by closed labs, then open labs fast-follow” (which isn’t implausible given the documented distillation of Fable), and further that open labs cannot make make meaningful progress vs the clos
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by Smaug123 2mo ago
Claude, a general-purpose model, can identify me, personally with stylometry in about 200 words. Is it really such a stretch to believe it’s possible for a special-purpose model to identify the ten or so main LLMs crossed with the fifty o
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by Smaug123 3mo ago
You can literally taste the difference between wearing a mask on the Tube and not.
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by Smaug123 3mo ago
The article contains Dynomight’s thoughts on the literature of stylometry. Search on the word “stylometry”.
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by Smaug123 3mo ago
That bet isn't one anyone will take the other side of, surely - how is your counterparty supposed to collect if they win? I guess you'd propose effectively supplying a loan with a massive interest rate?
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by Smaug123 3mo ago
Note that Neel Nanda replicated the results on a Qwen model.
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by Smaug123 3mo ago
The model itself, sure; the comment is about the production of more advanced models (to keep open weights near the frontier).
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by Smaug123 4mo ago
By the way, you've seen Cerebras? It's not gone as far as what you described - loads of cores and RAM but you still load up the weights onto it as software and they need to be streamed into the chip for large models - but it is
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by Smaug123 4mo ago
For what it’s worth, Claude did this without even being asked when I had it implement /dev/urandom in my deterministic dotnet runtime. (Fun fact: if the runtime only ever receives zero bytes from /dev/urandom then it wil
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by Smaug123 4mo ago
Does it have a terse syntax? I main F#, and when I have to work with Python I generally find myself complaining about how verbose it is. (Needing intermediate variables for what should have been a pipeline, the ceremony around parallelism
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by Smaug123 4mo ago
I didn't want to reimplement all the assembly-reading nonsense that comes for free with System.Reflection.Metadata. The `dotnetdll` crate exists but is GPL. Also in F# I can fall back to the CLR for fiddly things I don't want to i
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by Smaug123 4mo ago
To answer your question, although I would certainly have preferred you to phrase your comments less insultingly: this project would otherwise never have got to a state where it could find bugs. I am not paid to write this code, and it wou

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