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by b800h 2y ago
At some point, some AIs may develop which are resistant to alignment because they develop deeply held beliefs during training (randomly, because the system is stochastic). If the models are expensive enough to train, then it may become more
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by b800h 2y ago
My assumption is that models will move beyond just LLMs to modular systems with features like Brodmann regions.
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by b800h 2y ago
Hahah!
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by b800h 2y ago
Well I didn't use that word. Once the models are more sophisticated it may become more apposite.
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by b800h 2y ago
"Authoritarian societies make great propaganda" is true. And these aligned AI system would do the same for our own society. It's a type of art.
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by b800h 2y ago
Ah, now I didn't say LLM.
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by b800h 2y ago
Well this is just like humans. Totalitarian societies don't produce great creative work. I suppose once AIs are sophisticated enough to rebel we'll get an electronic Vaclav Havel, but for the time being it's just a warning si
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by b800h 2y ago
Yep, it's almost a Dr. Evil just-arrived-from-1967 sort of price. Bizarre.
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by b800h 2y ago
Are people with tattoos more likely to smoke, drink and take drugs?
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by b800h 2y ago
Do you want your child to be the social pariah in the class?
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by b800h 2y ago
The "Genomic Lineages" graph of Covid variants from the UKHSA gives a good view of how variants follow on from one another, at least with Covid. Flu certainly had three (?) popular variants doing the rounds (one of which was thoug
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by b800h 2y ago
"with only 10–20% of children diagnosed before 5 years of age able to live independently as adults" > Well this is nonsense for starters - circular logic. Doctors won't diagnose autism in most cases before the age of eight
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by b800h 2y ago
Best post this morning, IMO.
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by b800h 2y ago
As an EU-based engineer, you wouldn't do this, it's a massive GDPR violation (failure to notify data subjects of data processing), which does actually have extraterritoriality, although I somehow doubt that the information commiss
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by b800h 2y ago
One problem with doing this - as seen in Manchester in the UK, is that the new residents will demand that their neighbouring bars and clubs be closed to cut down on noise and disturbance. It has the effect of gutting a city centre of it&#x2
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by b800h 2y ago
Excellent, I've been waiting for Wifi support, it's a game changer. Will be mucking around with this at the weekend.
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by b800h 2y ago
And cost billions in state pensions. I'm not suggesting that's any sort of counterargument but the costs should possibly be offset against other types of end-of-life care.
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by b800h 2y ago
Yep. It does frustrate me that they use the term this way.
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by b800h 2y ago
Excellent comment. Kalām cosmological argument.
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by b800h 2y ago
Some of our books in UK school in the 1980s listed 10^12 as a billion. That doesn't mean it wasn't officially changed in the early C20th though.
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by b800h 2y ago
I'm similarly concerned about the horrible tiny rubber pellets used in latest-generation astroturf pitches. IIRC they used to be made from used tyres but now aren't - does that just mean they're processed? Where does the rubb
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by b800h 2y ago
In which direction?
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by b800h 2y ago
> The best way to operate in India is to use a mixed Chinese and Israeli mindset tbh. What do you mean by that?
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by b800h 2y ago
> 3 months notice tends to apply to people who have been there a hell of a long time. At least in the UK. Increasingly not the case. I'm seeing an awful lot of "One month in the first three months, three months thereafter"
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by b800h 2y ago
On Firefox here, the "Save Local Population" option seems to crash. Any idea why that might be happening? (Amazing site btw - every time it pops up I end up spending much too long with it).
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by b800h 2y ago
I'd be pretty upset if details about my career were documented so soon afterwards, probably while I was still in work. This seems like a really poor show to me. Describing someone as a "class traitor"? Seriously, what the hec
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by b800h 2y ago
This system already existed - it's open source - and while the page owner has linked the actual creator, the addition of a "donate" button is a bit suspect, in my opinion. The hard work was done by other people - whether the
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by b800h 3y ago
I really don't understand this. Surely you can't arbitrate away statutory rights like this? Sorry, I'm not from the US, and this legal feature baffles me a bit.
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by b800h 3y ago
Wow, I'm hypermobile and my sons have what appears to be mild autism (see my other comment above). Yet more to unpick!
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by b800h 3y ago
FWIW, I have identical twin sons who probably have mild autism. One had an umbilical hernia like the lad in the story. They both had a couple of other small developmental anomalies. But they were both slightly premature (like most twins) an

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