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by fidotron 3mo ago
So honestly Schelling was utterly brilliant. I cannot recommend all three of the books wikipedia classed as his notable works highly enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Schelling#Notable_works There are footno
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> Alternatively, using the influence they do have in their position to directly try to advance AI safety research, advocate for govt action, and make public arguments attempting to persuade the public to pressure the govt to act when the
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by fidotron 3mo ago
In your example there is nothing to be gained by not complying. Failing to comply with what is in reality arms control is a widespread occurence. It's notable the only historical way to handle this (Schelling covered it at length) is t
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by fidotron 3mo ago
And this is how we absolve people of all personal responsibility. Such companies would not pay people that well if they were so fungible. There is no such possible binding rule either, a point that is so obvious that any smart person claimi
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Anyone serious about this should participate in pacing the frontier by quitting their job so as to not potentially contribute to the problematic progress. Be the change you want to see! Curious how that isn't what happens.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
They've now put up a site https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/
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OpenAI, Anthropic Staff Share Letter Asking US to Help Pace AI Progress(bloomberg.com)
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Mazebench(mazebench.com)
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by fidotron 3mo ago
I think what's happened, so far at least, is productivity has been moved around. Anyone doing consulting has seen it, where now the "I vibe coded this last week" competition is way more intense. Basically the people with the
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Next you'll be telling me that using number of PRs deployed in a week as a KPI is a bad idea.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
You and the other are both missing the point. That's not a knowledge failure, it's a failure in how your operation is strategically executing. They were essentially practicing, and what did they learn? Change to sarin and even VX,
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> This is incorrect. The long tail of soft targets aren't being exploited more because attackers are bottlenecked on labor. AI removes exactly this bottleneck. No, it's because the targets are worthless. You aren't going t
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> I don't think the Aum case points the way you're describing: they used a non-pathogenic strain of anthrax because they didn't know any better. That's a knowledge failure. No, check https://en.wikipedia.or
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by fidotron 3mo ago
How about the entire history of US-Japan trade relations? Or are you really as oblivious as you are claiming?
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> Why would they not use the best tools at their disposal going forward? Because AI doesn't solve any of the problems any attacker would actually have. It's a classic case of nerds not seeing the actual problems because they in
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> If your focus as an American is being safe as an American, what the US does in other countries is far less of a concern to you than what other countries might do to the US. There's a causal relationship between "what other co
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> what should be done about open weight bioweapon Does not exist. What has in fact happened is some cults had bioweapons programs but any failure points were at deployment. (Aum Shinrikyo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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BBC Micro AI Agent Experiment(dompajak.com)
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by fidotron 3mo ago
You have to wonder if any of these models, from any providers or countries, are set up to lie. i.e. tell you no vulnerabilities while quietly siphoning off the ones they do find into a database. Yet another reason that self hosted will prov
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> When China was expected to play by those rules and allow American companies to do business in a mostly-unfettered way, they attacked the companies and drove them out of their market. This deserves to be pinned in the eternal HN hall of
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by fidotron 3mo ago
You state this as if the only way you personally would manage this would be to craft each line yourself after deep contemplation, which may be true for you. But it's not a universal at all. You have to apply engineering thinking to hum
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> But when you lead there’s a level of trust in the people who are going to implement. "Trust but verify". This is why you have QA processes, testing, checklists etc. All the sanity checks that got thrown away in the web tech r
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by fidotron 3mo ago
The point is did the US reaction work or was it completely counter productive? Then will attempting to cutoff China again today work or do we expect that also will prove to achieve the exact opposite of what its proponents are claiming?
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by fidotron 3mo ago
It's the same patronizing nonsense as when all the US webcos pulled out of the Chinese market in some misguided supposed protest believing the Chinese so incapable of rolling their own Google, Amazon or WhatsApp they will come begging
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by fidotron 3mo ago
If there are effectively only two AI companies allowed to train or run model inference then demand for hosting, GPUs and data centers goes down, so they'd be able to squeeze their suppliers that much more too.
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How Coding agents read your code (and how to write for them)(modem.dev)
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by fidotron 3mo ago
The people struggling with this most are also the ones that never got to grips with human delegation either. At least in my circle it's the classic leads/seniors (that predate the scrum "everyone's the same" thing)
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by fidotron 3mo ago
I'd have way more sympathy for the world-model-term-misuse complaints if the ML world hadn't studiously ignored and then reinvented so many fields over the years. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06485 is enough to
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> 1. App views decide permission parameters for their modality and frame the user experience Yeah, so this is the problem. A system flexible enough for that will be some combination of centralized, hilariously over complicated, massively
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by fidotron 3mo ago
So in your concept if you are A and have two folowers B and C that don't know each other but both comment on your post what should happen? Should you see both but they not see each other? This is the tip of the iceberg of boring questi

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