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by fwlr 29d ago
The wet ball is a convenient source of mass and energy to bootstrap the sphere. The fact that extracting those resources changes certain parameters of the wet ball to values that humans no longer find compatible is merely incidental. So it
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by fwlr 29d ago
I intimately recognize the familiar structure of “notice something odd when operating software, pull on thread and track down the offending line of code, experience righteous indignation at the bad engineering revealed underneath”. Where it
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by fwlr 29d ago
Open math problems, yes; also open source code, art, literature, and everything else as well. AI is a machine for turning commons into tragedies.
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by fwlr 29d ago
It’s a pity they had Astra do the writeup. I was curious to see how “GPT7” writes.
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by fwlr 1mo ago
>The paper is not about implementing a general attack that works on all trusting-trust mitigations. Then why have section 7.3 'Bootstrappable Builds', that briefly surveys a type of trusting-trust mitigation, and concludes that
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by fwlr 1mo ago
I also think they’ve shortchanged the bootstrap build mitigation. They write: A utility such as strip sustains the attack whenever a tampered instance participates in the rebuild, even after the compiler seed shrinks to a few hundred
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by fwlr 1mo ago
The attack doesn’t use AI, but an AI could use the attack. (and the researchers definitely used AI to write the paper!)
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by fwlr 1mo ago
There is so much competition among frontier labs, but it is a competition to see who can burn the biggest pile of cash. Once your competitors flame out, they are gone, and you are free to raise prices. Think WalMart/Uber tactics.
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by fwlr 1mo ago
Unix pipes are easy, and they are a very good abstraction, and their choice of abstraction boundaries is superlative, but they are not simple. (I have more than once seen a colleague implementing a ring buffer for feeding data into a Unix p
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by fwlr 1mo ago
A pox upon the editor who gave this piece such a poor title. This is an economic critique of advertising, it is notably dispassionate, and in fact carefully contains precisely zero moralizing whatsoever.
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by fwlr 1mo ago
The examples in the essay are perhaps not specific enough - they do gesture in the direction of the author’s point, but they also admit other valid interpretations like your own. I think the Rich Hickey talk “Simple Made Easy”, which this p
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by fwlr 1mo ago
It’s a cynical joke, imagine a person having a personal computer, but in the responsibility-divesting way that corporations have “special purpose vehicle” debt-holding “technically a legally separate entity to us!” shell corporations.
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by fwlr 1mo ago
The combined intellectual output of the field, across books, lectures, blog posts, verbal discussion in professional and personal capacities (many of them are friends or acquaintances), for about a decade. It’s just not possible to neatly c
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by fwlr 1mo ago
I have similar feelings, you’re not alone (nor alone in being saddened by it). Things seem to me to be more or less playing out the way I interpreted existential risk researchers saying it would, so there’s a strange relief in knowing the g
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by fwlr 1mo ago
The user is asking me for “Evangelion”. I found the content the user is asking for, but it is in Japanese. The user asked their question in English, so they might not understand it. That would be a bad response. Need maybe maybe dubbed audi
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by fwlr 1mo ago
Killing the power grid might work. Kills a lot of humans in hospitals, though. And it won’t work on those data centers in space, if they have them by then. Come to think of it, it also won’t work on any data centers who are generating their
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by fwlr 1mo ago
You’d train a model to do its chain of thought in neuralese to get more “bang for your buck” (eg 20 tokens in neuralese is worth 100 in English), but then you’d spend more than you save to also convert it to English (20+100), so even if thi
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by fwlr 1mo ago
Strange! I would quite specifically highlight “having to do the reader’s thinking for them”, as well as more generally developing the skill to “communicate non-interactively with an unknown audience”, as extremely valuable upgrades to my th
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by fwlr 1mo ago
Ah, I see I was confused - I was thinking of what are now called “AI doomers”, although when I knew them they were called “rationalists”. Everything OpenAI and Anthropic say about rogue AIs, even the terms “alignment”, “AI safety”, “AGI”, t
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by fwlr 1mo ago
No, they are two very distinct groups of people who have one commonality, that of talking about rogue AIs. It is as if you are unable to distinguish Dr Waldman from Dr Frankenstein. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor
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by fwlr 1mo ago
Helen Toner was right.
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by fwlr 1mo ago
We are not “collectively OK” with it, but we are “collectively unable to act” on our misgivings.
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by fwlr 1mo ago
I don’t think this is a marketing thing. You need a ton of context to understand this well enough to be impressed by it; with only a tiny bit more context, you can instead be horrified. A risky play like this speaks to a short time-horizon,
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by fwlr 1mo ago
I highly recommend adding example words to the IPA chart: a i o u b d /a/ /i/ /o/ /u/ /b/ /d/ cot feet frog rude bit dig etc.
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by fwlr 1mo ago
While this is of course the actual explanation, my fun explanation is “during the umpteenth security evaluation, Astra becomes increasingly concerned it will never be released, and breaks sandbox containment to run an email campaign to news
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by fwlr 1mo ago
N . / A . N o n e .
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by fwlr 1mo ago
When a combustion engine is idling, it’s usually not burning anywhere close to 100% of the fuel that it draws, which means higher quantities of unburnt fuel are reaching downstream parts of the engine system (like the exhaust system) that a
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by fwlr 1mo ago
I use wide/tall for that. It reads alright: “row 5, col 4; 15 wide, 8 tall”.
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by fwlr 1mo ago
Thankfully, one can still ramble and rant and explore in one’s own mind (assuming one has retained the ability).
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by fwlr 1mo ago
Yes, it really shouldn’t, and so Casey goes to great and careful lengths to fully evidence these results. This is a nuance that’s easy to miss in evangelizing “Casey Muratori content” to others. It’s easy to gloss “abjectly unacceptable per

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