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by jsrozner 5d ago
The people producing and consuming the slop don't realize that it is slop.
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by jsrozner 6d ago
I, uhm, think this idea would apply in both directions.
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by jsrozner 6d ago
It turns out, oddly enough, that it's possible for it to be both. AI can simultaneously be used to destroy the commons with slop and also make contributions to new math (though isn't the jury still out on whether part of the idea
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by jsrozner 6d ago
It is hilarious that this got downvoted, even when it's entirely factually accurate. I encourage the downvoters to respond to the content.
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by jsrozner 6d ago
Shame is the best driver of social change (see, e.g., Rob Reich's The Common Good ). Now we just need the same shame for broader surveillance capitalism (Google, Facebook, AI companies, etc).
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by jsrozner 6d ago
A bigger problem is that it will be impossible to know when you are seeing an ad: political groups (or the government, perhaps) will partner with openAI to subtly express different values. It's still an advertisement, and the underlyin
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by jsrozner 6d ago
This is basically what Google did when they pioneered the model of surveillance capitalism (see, e.g., The Age of Surveillance Capitalism). Google simply provided an index on top of an existing library. Of course, a librarian has no value i
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by jsrozner 6d ago
Because it's another surveillance adtech company from SillyCon Valley. Duh.
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by jsrozner 6d ago
I keep meaning to set this up but haven't. What's the simplest best setup for my own DNS blocker?
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by jsrozner 6d ago
People think they're interacting with an "intelligence," when actually they're just getting a maximally optimized Weizenbaum feed. We're living through the sloppification of the human mind. See e.g., https:/&#
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by jsrozner 9d ago
Cars are decidedly less dangerous than tanks, which are less dangerous than nuclear weapons. I am certain that giving a nuclear weapon to every person in the world would not go well.
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by jsrozner 9d ago
Democracy includes a broader array of governmental organization than just pure direct democracy. If you do believe that individuals should have some ability dictate the terms of their own social organization, then you believe in some amount
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by jsrozner 9d ago
No system of governance can deal with immense concentration of power. The US Constitution was about separation of powers. Democracy is about (in theory at least) giving each person a meaningful say in their own governance, which in turn imp
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by jsrozner 10d ago
Seems to lead us down the slippery slope of requiring an Apple device, or a Google device (e.g., https://cybernews.com/privacy/google-qr-code-recaptcha-requi... ), or the device of some other entity (that may be mostly
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by jsrozner 11d ago
There's a solution: personal liability for the executives and managers at the company, and for the investors. For example, every person who has ever worked for IDScan at any level of management should have all lifetime compensation cla
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by jsrozner 11d ago
> There's no particular reason to expect any particular formal system to be complete, sans some demonstration that is. Well, Godel's First Incompleteness Thm says that any consistent, effectively axiomatized theory that is stro
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by jsrozner 12d ago
One funny thing is that in order to tune the models to make what they're doing explainable to humans, you need to have humans involved in the RL pipeline to indicate which explanations are good. You can understand this as learning a ma
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by jsrozner 12d ago
Unlike Europe, in the US, most PhD applicants do not have a masters. 10 years ago, most had not even conducted substantial senior projects (e.g a semester or year). Though increasingly senior projects / undergraduate "theses"
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by jsrozner 12d ago
That's right. You could list all those propositions and search for proofs of them. In fact this is very similar to Hilbert's very program to which Godel's First Incompleteness Thm was a response ( https://en.wikiped
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by jsrozner 12d ago
"A computer or monkey could easily start at the axioms of ZFC and iteratively apply deduction rules....simply conjecture all mathematical propositions in alphabetical order...The prospect of automating mathematics by enumerating all co
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by jsrozner 12d ago
Why is this being published as a blog post and not as a peer-reviewed submission? If it's going to be a blog post, why isn't there a corresponding scientific version for me to look at? Someone else already found it. I don't u
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by jsrozner 15d ago
For every benefit that sillycon valley has produced in the recent past, there have been many more harms. I am confident that this will be no different. Of course, benefits and harms depend on one's vantage point.
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by jsrozner 24d ago
In the short term, I think AI may do something like this, but in the longer term, I fear that its capacity for propaganda and surveillance will produce something even worse than social media.
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by jsrozner 24d ago
The posted paper does use supervision to find alignments. I need to do a little more math to figure out how well the supervision critique applies, but I think it does. And although the current paper mentions DAS, it fails to discuss recen
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by jsrozner 24d ago
A big problem with some of these supervised* interpretability approaches is that they can find spurious structure. (There are lots of ways to make the model do what you want; which is roughly what Hewitt and Liang 2019 showed). This paper d
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by jsrozner 24d ago
The issue is simply that the posted article begins with a review of recent earnings/ revenues, but fails to discuss that a substantial part of those revenues are investment markups. Whether it matters we don’t know yet, but it’s a fact
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by jsrozner 25d ago
Though the bubble has not popped, I don't see the following discussed in the post: Zitron would probably point out (as have others) that many of the hyperscalers are booking valuation increases in Anthropic, OpenAI as "Other Incom
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by jsrozner 1mo ago
What human writes, "This is not a moment for patches and duct tape." Is that AI or just horribly clichéd writing?
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by jsrozner 1mo ago
Hi Claude, please build a tool for analyzing Claude token usage and then deploy it to github. If you're going to fully vibe code a repo, maybe we should get the build artifacts (i.e., the claude session).
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by jsrozner 1mo ago
I don't see why you couldn't see improvements in self-hosted or hosting-as-a-service model throughput? Basically API-style support for a company's internal LLM system. Why not? Or secure infra offered by AWS to self-host your

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