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by estearum 3mo ago
I (obviously) can't claim to know the specifics of this incident, but I think we can know with near-certainty that as these models surpass human intelligence, the sensation will be exactly what you're describing. The entire point
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by estearum 3mo ago
Not really. The article and entire discussion is about identifying trends and forces, extrapolating them, and speculating on where they might bring us. Picking up on things that "some" people are doing is literally all that can po
573.
by estearum 3mo ago
And inversely, you'd be in a state of complete unactionable aloofness if you didn't care or failed to relate the hobbies of "some" people to mean anything in real life. A smart person in 2014: "Some people are getti
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by estearum 3mo ago
We're like 3 years into these things being able to write a coherent sentence and you're finding comfort that only some people are dating these systems?
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by estearum 3mo ago
1. It's been extremely well established for multiple generations of models that they have no problem detecting when they're being evaluated. Pretty sure it was Opus 4.8 that the independent evaluators literally filed an assessment
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by estearum 3mo ago
I presume that Alexander would argue the materials and specific aesthetic decisions would (and critically should ) change to local vernacular/craft/resources, but that the higher-order patterns that should emerge from them woul
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by estearum 3mo ago
The larger systems that contain software, or which software comprises, are the workflows that software sustains. Those workflows then comprise departments, organizations, businesses, and eventually cross-business interdependencies, supply c
578.
by estearum 3mo ago
Obviously the people who think LLMs should be forbidden from this use-case would think it should be forbidden from put-it-in-a-doll use-case. We routinely give our children ibuprofen or acetaminophen, this does not imply that some vicodin o
579.
by estearum 3mo ago
Yeah, the costs of that use case far outweigh the benefits.
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by estearum 3mo ago
Do Bluey and Peppa Pig produce convincing human-like responses to virtually any human-generated input directed towards them? If so, then uhh yeah we should definitely regulate that shit
581.
by estearum 3mo ago
Ah sorry I think the confusion was mine! I thought we were already talking on the top-level post about the OAI/HuggingFace article. But we are not!
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by estearum 3mo ago
What? The issue is that models are not well-controlled and are increasingly powerful. Offense/defense/Chinese/American/OAI/HuggingFace – none of it matters. What matters is introducing highly capable intelligences t
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by estearum 3mo ago
> One man's offensive penetration tool is another mans defensive tool. seems to suggest the author believes there's some intrinsic equilibrium Which, 1) is definitely not proven and not guaranteed (open to proofs otherwise, n
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by estearum 3mo ago
Well considering it was just a few months ago that OpenAI had the brilliant idea of connecting these systems to autonomously run an actual protein synthesis wetlab, very possibly all of us.
585.
by estearum 3mo ago
You're presenting further evidence of lack of effective control over these systems as... a mitigating factor...?
586.
by estearum 3mo ago
hmm almost like the exact race-to-the-bottom + arms-race dynamic all the doomers have been warning about
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by estearum 3mo ago
That is correct, I am defending neither the metric nor the overall policy goal. I'm just articulating why it is/was one.
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by estearum 3mo ago
Super interesting! Wasn't familiar, though I admit I didn't even think of ruling class Nigerians (which as you point out, the entire world sends their elite children here to be educated), and was thinking more of "actual&quot
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by estearum 3mo ago
I think it's probably more like an "incorrect" focal length for what you'd expect. And it's kind of hard to know what you'd expect because you don't typically have arbitrary spatial control over your point
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by estearum 3mo ago
The theory behind it is that 1) economic growth generally accrues to land values so distributing land ownership is one way to distribute wealth and 2) people generally treat the things they own better than the things they rent or consume.
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by estearum 3mo ago
US-migrated Nigerians are driving Nigeria's local home ownership policy? Why? How? It seems more likely what you're seeing is the kindred spirit between parochialists of all colors. And if only they could see through the "col
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by estearum 3mo ago
Really insightful comment. Couldn't agree more. And many of these people really do need their Good Works on the force to do the saving, because God knows what they do to their wives and kids back home.
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by estearum 3mo ago
You are incorrect. The logic behind a separate incest exception is that the vast majority of incest is at least coercive/groomed if not forcible rape, but qualifying for the rape exception would require meeting the significant and pr
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by estearum 3mo ago
Wait you think there are so many exceptions for rape and incest because of the political power of the rape and incest lobby? Holy fuck. Even for someone who has quickly earned a name for himself and his insane takes, this is a strong entry.
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by estearum 3mo ago
Suspicious? The word is abusive. Of the law, of their uniform, of their fellow citizens.
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by estearum 3mo ago
Uhh FalcoNet doesn't photograph cars. It snoops telecom traffic. And no, SCOTUS has certainly not found that the government is allowed to just arbitrarily snoop telecom traffic.
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by estearum 3mo ago
1. I didn't say "the best we have." I said the best we could possibly have. There is no form of evidence generation, real or hypothetical, greater than the randomized controlled trial. 2. That doesn't necessarily mak
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by estearum 3mo ago
> If you have a fine of $100 for a widespread practice that costs $1,000 to collect, the state isn't going to magically allocate resource to applying it. Seems empirically false given e.g. the immense investment we make in counter-d
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by estearum 3mo ago
I think you're missing group 3, which is the "assume bad faith and/or bad outcome from any possible change to anything, and especially changes to open source projects that can be interpreted as exogenous, e.g. from an acqui
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by estearum 3mo ago
1. The point of laws is not to turn a profit on their enforcement 2. The burden of proof/right to defense/notifications etc are all quite a lot easier for licensed entities like real estate brokers – that's kind of the entire

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