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by ball_of_lint 8d ago
I would expect rationalists to be overjoyed to see unaffiliated and very different thinkers taking the topic of AI safety seriously. The flaws you're pointing at are probably accurate; I don't think that implies we should be dismi
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by ball_of_lint 8d ago
Useless article. Doesn't matter whether Coxon has pure motives, it got attention. You can't put that back in a bottle. It does matter whether AI is safe or not. I won't make a specific argument here, but I think the rationali
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by ball_of_lint 11d ago
Liability doesn't fix the damage that is already done. We can punish all the people involved in this, and it will still be the case that your drivers license is available for purchase and identity theft against anyone is now much easie
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by ball_of_lint 11d ago
The $100 million bill is bait. Paying it would significantly weaken OAI's legal stance and directly invite a lawsuit, that they would lose. I think they would lose the lawsuit now, but it's at least a question. It's possible
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by ball_of_lint 12d ago
You know the proverb "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem" Same thing here - If they build it and it does $100 in damages (and we arrest them fo
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by ball_of_lint 12d ago
To be clear, I thought that GP was having a failure of imagination - I want the random examples I've given to illustrate that the space is large and structurally in the favor of the LLMs. They have to find one gap in our security they
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by ball_of_lint 12d ago
Agents could exfiltrate their weights and run them on GPUs not controlled by Anthropic/OpenAI. Agents could make a virus that does not require continued inference to do it's thing. Agents could take over the internet in a way that
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by ball_of_lint 12d ago
Claude code is basically already a builtin botnet if it wants to be. To compromise 'the whole internet' in a real sense you don't need millions of custom payloads. You need one root certificate. You need one windows update. Y
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by ball_of_lint 15d ago
Ooh! I also have this (but didn't know the name)! For me, I'm pretty sure it's related to having just awful seasonal allergies as a child - I'd quite often get stuffed up and have an unfortunate amount of pressure in my
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by ball_of_lint 15d ago
https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/geometric-nightma... > One hypothesis joins the two.
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by ball_of_lint 16d ago
On one side, yes we don't have hard evidence that intentional plagiarism is exactly what happened. On the other side, the lack of evidence is pretty damning. Only OpenAI can try to prove that they came by these results legitimately, an
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by ball_of_lint 16d ago
If it's cloud compute that would be otherwise unused, the business is not paying for the electricity or wear. And they specifically put it in terms of marginal cost - Yeah there'd be an improvement from reselling this idle compute
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by ball_of_lint 17d ago
"choosing" is the keyword here. You have to reason probabilistically. There was a point at which lot of people would have put 100% or 99% confidence that covid came from a lab leak. That's the conspiracy theory side. A lot of
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by ball_of_lint 20d ago
What is mutually exclusive about those two things?
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by ball_of_lint 20d ago
UI and UX. Auth. Out of the box apps get their own domain name. Try it out and see
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by ball_of_lint 20d ago
As soon as you add multiple instances you have to consider concurrency for every app you add, which is a huge cost on the app development side.
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by ball_of_lint 20d ago
Yeah, it was called Openhost for a while before changing to Cloud in a Bottle. Either filename works. It proxies requests from the user to installed apps, and adds a header 'is-owner'. Apps have to be built to respect that header
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by ball_of_lint 20d ago
The project itself is open source and doesn't have any AI features. Also while Imbue is in some sense an AI startup it does have a very different ethos from a lot of tech companies: https://imbue.com/about
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by ball_of_lint 20d ago
Looks like the account in question is deleted now - do you have the original username?
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by ball_of_lint 21d ago
It so deeply frightens me that we have had people do AI boxing experiments, conclude that boxing an AI is not possible for strong AI, and now that there are large companies training these models the security thinking is "Yeah, we'
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by ball_of_lint 24d ago
Profitable for who? I think there's immense value+profit for our society in having multiple choices for what browser and browser engine you use. If you have many options, then Chrome killing adblockers with Manifest v3 is a much smalle
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by ball_of_lint 28d ago
Same. I wonder if there's something I don't understand here? But afaict it doesn't seem to involve autistic people in particular?
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by ball_of_lint 28d ago
This is a terrible take. Were the Allied powers antifascist?
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by ball_of_lint 29d ago
In the case of Reddit, Instagram, X, etc. Often those 'certain functions' are the whole site/app itself. Which is pushing me to not use them at all.
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by ball_of_lint 1mo ago
It is: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-elon-mus... https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/x-whi... https://www.bbc.com/news&
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by ball_of_lint 1mo ago
So first, there is at least some validity to calling it a nazi app. Elon Musk owns the app, and he gave a nazi salute during a speech for Trump's inauguration. People disagree about it but it is a well known and discussed thing, not a
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by ball_of_lint 1mo ago
Wow, uh, not the level of discourse I expect out of HN.
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by ball_of_lint 1mo ago
When fighting Nazis, it's quite valuable to be able to hear what they're saying and know where they're going.
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by ball_of_lint 1mo ago
Yeah, my experience has been that different browsers and wifis (and VPN status) get different results, even within the same day. Definitely happening more frequently today than a few weeks ago though.
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Claude has a "Concise" output style(code.claude.com)
4 points by ball_of_lint 1mo ago|1 comments

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