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by ben_w 4mo ago
Same way as towards a natural person, I recon?
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> I really feel like "grab" is quite condescending to a company (Samsung) that provides services at scale (upon/after consent) to help you.. "be better" (simplified..), with direct customization and tailoring. Th
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by ben_w 4mo ago
I'm glad to see you're using this power for good; a few years back I was afraid someone would write this kind of thing as a virus to deliberately manipulate public opinion. Or stock prices.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Mm. Double-checking their actual record, much moreso than I remember.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Indeed. I use a spare laptop that has no accounts other than (1) the AI themselves, (2) a secondary GitHub account which has "untrusted devices" in the name to emphasise the point. If I recall correctly, I did a full system reset
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by ben_w 4mo ago
In fairness, it is very difficult to look at the last 16 years of British governments and hold the belief "these people have well prepared the UK for the future".
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by ben_w 4mo ago
There's many reasons to not use Musk's products, but if you wish to convince people who don't already buy into that description (or worse, who like that description), I would instead focus on the "this endangers your sec
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> Maybe something like that should exist on global scale. Would certainly change things, e.g. the US looked far less glamorous when I actually visited it*, but there's a lot more variation in certain parts of the world than between
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Indeed. To expand on this, I prefer calling this "the event horizon" rather than "the singularity", as that makes it clear (I hope) that I mean "can't predict" rather than "goes to infinity". Wit
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Sure, but it goes wrong with people, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> But today I had some exposure to a SotA agentic team coding loop thingie which had been running almost hands-off for a few weeks on a (pretty serious) Win32+Direct3D-to-Emscripten+WebGL porting project - and I'm genuinely spooked
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by ben_w 4mo ago
You know "for a fact" anything about a tech which is currently in the experimental stage (or even "press release before first experiment" stage), in a field which has a famously large gap between theory and practice, con
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Suspect it is illegal. Doesn't matter if it was maliciously stealing literally all contents and secret keys, or if this was merely something vibe-coded that accidentally slipped past QA, the behaviour documented here would get a human
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> Horizon was accounting software - where is the connection to expert systems? "it's functionally about the same as basically all modern business systems" > can make bad software - no AI required All AI *is softw
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Pretty much the same, yeah; the maths of finding a decision boundary for a perceptron echos the maths for a line of best fit.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
In fairness, a white sheet and a mirrored sheet will have much the same impact in this regard.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Right now we're still not close to that kind of capacity. I suspect just painting all the rooftops and tarmac white will be about as effective as 2000 Starship launches filled with mylar sheets, plus an L1 delivery system because one t
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Agreed. I push back equally against all who are confident, regardless of which way.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> When GPT-4 came out, Yudkowsky said it might be conscious. I think he has written interesting stuff but let's be real I don't expect GPT-4 to be conscious, it would be quite remarkable if we've stumbled upon whatever evo
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by ben_w 4mo ago
One thing I find weird is that despite the stock photo of the Terminator's shiny endoskeleton holding a gun being used to illustrate so many AI news stories, now we have ChatGPT people keep saying "how can AI possibly hurt us?&quo
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Yes, repeatedly, since well before this particular AI summer. One previous attempt at AI was "expert systems", and while the term fell out of use it's functionally about the same as basically all modern business systems, and
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by ben_w 4mo ago
As someone who considers themselves in the "safetyism contingent", the only thing I find myself agreeing with about the rollout of LLMs has been the argument that it has to be shown to and used by the public while under developmen
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> It's a first amendment issue, I'm allowed to write and read books that are useful to getting away with crimes, etc. I'm neither American nor a lawyer. Is "conspiracy" protected under the first amendment? If you
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> Though if there are no websites anymore or ones not many visit how would AI stay relevant? That's what the robots are for. I am not expecting the humanoid robots to meet the hype for a long long time*, but even boring industrial r
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Out of interest, where are you on this scale? I don't think I've ever been better than a 6 from those star pictures, despite how I'd otherwise categorise where I live as suburban/rural transition: https://en.w
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Depends how cheap they can launch them. Even very optimistic estimates (by people who aren't Elon Musk) say it will take a decade to get the costs low enough to be worthwhile for LEO; higher orbits are much more expensive.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Yes; their video pertains to two specific proposals for the data centres, unfortunately I am finding that *all* the various proposals fail to make sense but for different reasons.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> I have had cousins from the village send me a picture of a mermaid claiming she was caught in one of the rivers. For what it's worth, this also happens with printed books. I wasted the latter half of my teens taking New Age occult
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> I wonder if that principle applies here or not It applies, but also in practice the maximum temperature is lower than the theoretical upper bound. https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/
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by ben_w 4mo ago
For this use, "gossamer thin" is unlikely. You want to control where you point the mirror, it needs a structure that not only doesn't flop around when you torque your spacecraft, but also doesn't have surprise vibrationa

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