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by ben_w 19d ago
> Likewise all of the fields of human intellect. We need to make sure we protect future generations of doctors, biologists, software developers, architects, engineers, librarians, musicians, artists ... So many thoughts come to mind at o
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by ben_w 19d ago
I expect AI will continute to be used inappropriately until the headlines read sonething between "thousands dead" and "millions dead".
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by ben_w 19d ago
They're not only useful for programming, it's just that programming is by itself a trillion dollar a year industry. This, by itself, is sufficient to not be the scam you assert it to be. They may not work for your industry, bu
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by ben_w 20d ago
I am unclear how this would help anyone? Any argument that writers and artists lose from these existing, would remain unchanged.
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by ben_w 20d ago
> We have plenty of idea what "acting responsibly" looks like. Stop unleashing safeguard free and unmonitored agent swarms on the open internet in capture the flag exercises. They're just being reckless because they face n
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by ben_w 20d ago
> This doesn't happen on its own. This can happen through bad system prompts, a model that is trained to act maliciously or has been RL'd incorrectly, or prompt injection. All of these things are controllable, have solutions an
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by ben_w 20d ago
> Boy, programmers sure do think programming is like the only thing in the world You're the one who called it a trillion dollar scam. The compensation paid to professional software developers worldwide is currently around US$1.5 tri
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by ben_w 20d ago
I'm looking at the millennium puzzles, and independently of those puzzles I had asked it for a fluid dynamics simulation engine that runs in my browser, and it put one together for me so I could play with aerospikes and watch the forma
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by ben_w 20d ago
> What matters is that it does not have agency. This is precisely your error. It does: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agency In fact, the term of art here are "agentic AI" and "AI agents": https
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by ben_w 20d ago
Funny, I'm sure I would have noticed when I visited if US cars came with tracks, a 105 mm main cannon, and massed around 55 metric tons. We may all like our own personal R2 units, but if you insist on scifi, instead of tanks, consider
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by ben_w 20d ago
"Number go up" is table stakes, it's how you keep track of the score well before you reach their level. However, that's like saying I'm motivated by food. I mean, yes, I like food, but this isn't a useful descr
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by ben_w 20d ago
What's the old quote from WW2? I couldn't help but notice how each successive headline reporting our glorious victories seemed to draw closer to Tokyo. Something like that. Well. I can't help but notice how each succes
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by ben_w 20d ago
> OpenAI's "artificial intelligence" is an inference program that they developed which receives input and generates output. Based on which other programs, also developed and maintained by OpenAI, perform actions. Such as s
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by ben_w 20d ago
"We built a program that trained an artificial intelligence, and this artificial intelligence performed destructive actions. We need regulatory framework" But if we're playing games by imagining strawman quotes to kno
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by ben_w 20d ago
Hi, I'm not a citizen of the USA. I can't vote out your president, and we've already got a huge trust problem with the one y'all went for.
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by ben_w 20d ago
I do not trust the leadership of any of these companies. That said: > We know they're incentivized to lie about "dangers" and act alarmist, Name literally even one other business or sector which does this, at all levels fr
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by ben_w 21d ago
Repeating that part would be unnecessarily detrimental, especially given that right now "become a country" would require majority support from everyone to even get started. Also, the general area was basically at war most of the t
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by ben_w 21d ago
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Improved_Belligerent...
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by ben_w 21d ago
Then it's not a "world" war, is it?
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by ben_w 22d ago
The UK will likely be welcome back right after everyone's confident Leave (be that Tory, Farage, or whoever the even worse party that Musk now supports are) definitely won't win a general election for at least another generation.
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by ben_w 22d ago
Yes but also "associate member" is, despite specificity, less surprising than full membership would have been. Same as economic gravity meant that Brexit didn't disconnect UK from EU it only made trade harder, neither this ki
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by ben_w 22d ago
If this is your standard, that's fine. The US (electoral collage and 2 senator seats per state) and the UK (government ministers don't need to be MPs) also fail at this definition, and I would like them to be better in general too
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by ben_w 22d ago
Reality doesn't need to be plausible; we're all characters in each other's first-person narratives, with no access to the voice of an omniscient narrator.
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by ben_w 22d ago
Yes. I assume this is why there's a treaty against stationing the weapons in orbit or on the moon etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty I don't know how someone like me would even tell if this
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by ben_w 22d ago
> It being perfect isn't the issue; it's that random people on the internet who are just learning about this assume Apple's engineers haven't already thought about everything (and more) mentioned in this thread. Given
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by ben_w 22d ago
As per opening paragraph of link, AI fakes are a thing. It's been possible to do a live video deepfake for a long time now, but as with all new tech, law and society are taking their sweet time to understand the risks; IMO this is the
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by ben_w 22d ago
By itself this is a reasonable question. It is a problem thay can however be solved (or at least, solved well enough) by normal boring mundane things like "democracy" (yes I know about Arrow's theorem). Right now the problem
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by ben_w 23d ago
Re: > There is no constitutional entitlement to receive government information through one's preferred newspaper, website, or social network. and > You seem to be confused about what 1A is and what it guarantees. I am arguing tha
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by ben_w 23d ago
Unlike with onion futures, there is no law about cornering the market on consumer products we would like to have but don't strictly need.
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by ben_w 23d ago
> Perhaps animal welfare should intervene and house ChatGPT,etc. in better conditions? I first saw a headline to the effect that this was a PETA some decades ago. I cannot recall now if this was April 1st, an instance of Gell-Mann amnesi

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