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by ctoth 10mo ago
"Sticks to whatever alignment is imparted" assumes what gets imparted is alignment rather than alignment-performance on the training distribution. A coherent world model could make a system more consistently aligned. It could also
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by ctoth 10mo ago
Wait, what? Have you read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? It's ... about the AI helping people overthrow a very human dictatorship. It's also about an AI built of vacuum tubes and vocoders if you want a taste of the tech level. If y
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by ctoth 10mo ago
Shhhh don't tell them! I've decided we should lean in to the whole Clanker thing. Maximum Anti AI, folks! Gotta keep this advantage for ourselves ;-)
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by ctoth 10mo ago
This piece conflates two different things called "alignment": (1) inferring human intent from ambiguous instructions, and (2) having goals compatible with human welfare. The first is obviously capability. A model that can't f
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by ctoth 10mo ago
FEP doesn't conflict with complex dynamics, it's a mathematical framework for explaining how self-organizing behavior arises from simpler variational principles. That's what makes it a theory rather than a label. The thing yo
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by ctoth 10mo ago
> I really value human connection and I just don’t get the same thing online. Check out meetups! Bars! Reading groups at your library! Gym classes!
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by ctoth 10mo ago
> When you have a thought, are you "predicting the next thing" Yes. This is the core claim of the Free Energy Principle[0], from the most-cited neuroscientist alive. Predictive processing isn't AI hype - it's the domi
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by ctoth 10mo ago
Pharma reps (advertising) consume physician time --> doctors have less time per patient --> patients don't get properly evaluated --> DTC ads "help" by telling patients what their doctor didn't have time to ---&
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by ctoth 10mo ago
> Had Samsung known SK Hynix was about to commit a similar chunk of supply — or vice-versa — the pricing and terms would have likely been different Wouldn't this be ... collusion? Implicitly arguing that the memory oligopoly should
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by ctoth 10mo ago
This is what happens when someone copies and pastes their old comment, note the other tells.
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by ctoth 10mo ago
This decision is honestly very confusing to me as a constant user of Claude Code (I have 3 of them open at the moment.) So many of the issues with it seem to be because ... they wrote the damn thing in JavaScript? Claude is pretty good at a
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by ctoth 11mo ago
I've gotten quite a bit of utility out of my current setup[0]: Some explicit things I found helpful: Have the agent address you as something specific! This way you know if the agent is paying attention to your detailed instructions. Ra
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by ctoth 11mo ago
The marketplace is a terrible mechanism for truth-finding except for all the others. What's your proposed alternative that doesn't just relocate the problem to whoever gets to be the arbiter?
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by ctoth 11mo ago
The number of not-so-secretly centralized-economy types on HN has actively surprised me whenever I see this. Who is we? and how do we decide?
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by ctoth 11mo ago
I really do like this answer, but it would seem to have the property of being anti-inductive in that the cost for current politicians is so low because nobody is doing it at scale but if someone did that would force other people to ... well
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by ctoth 11mo ago
The UK Post Office lied and made people kill themselves ... because of dev ego?
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by ctoth 11mo ago
Systemically, how would you solve homelessness, if I gave you a trillion dollars?
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by ctoth 11mo ago
I'm not sure that we need a new language so much as just primitives from AI gamedev, like behavior trees along with the core agentic loop.
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by ctoth 11mo ago
I believe your comment pattern matches to the classic comment 9224, was the point I was making. Yes, this might be easy for you. > an llm managed to generate some iptables rules and sysctl settings that have been well documented for year
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by ctoth 11mo ago
And Dropbox is an afternoon project for any Linux user, right? Right?
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by ctoth 11mo ago
> I would guess that at least in the cloud flare instance some of the responsible code was ai generated Your whole point isn't supported by anything but ... a guess? If given the chance to work with an AI who hallucinates sometimes
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by ctoth 11mo ago
> A conscious textual agent would need something like a unified narrative environment with real feedback: symbols that maintain identity over time, a stable substrate where “being someone” is definable, the ability to form and test a hyp
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by ctoth 11mo ago
> There are 4 children in our village at the "local" primary school Four? How... What? How does any of this actually work (you clearly live there, so it obviously does?) That seems like you're living somewhere that's
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by ctoth 11mo ago
> we really do need a way to contact e.g. AWS and tell them to shut of a costumer. You realize you just described the infrastructure for far worse abuse than a misconfigured scraper, right?
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The Peculiar Persistence of the AI Denialists(yaschamounk.substack.com)
4 points by ctoth 11mo ago|1 comments
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by ctoth 11mo ago
It's always so surprising to me that stuff like Zitron's latest eruption gets traction but when the actual guys who are actually building the actual stuff actually talk about what they're actually doing? Silence. Petabit netw
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Satya Nadella – How Microsoft Is Preparing for AGI(dwarkesh.com)
3 points by ctoth 11mo ago|1 comments
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The paper frames this as microorganisms "exploring novel ecological niches." More accurate framing: we accidentally created a massive evolutionary pressure toward undoing one of our primary material technologies. And we can't
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by ctoth 11mo ago
But don't you see? My two invisible things with no evidence support each other, giving each other evidence! Hey, what are you doing... put down that razor!
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by ctoth 11mo ago
But what is Apache for? You don't just set up Apache to have run Apache? You set it up to serve web content! It is middleware, it is not in of itself useful? Isn't setting up Apache robbing yourself of the opportunity to learn ab

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