mitthrowaway2

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by mitthrowaway2 6d ago
... Huh? No, I'm saying -- and I can't believe I have to spell this out -- that pedestrians should be rolling around inside giant steel spiked balls like sea urchins.
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by mitthrowaway2 6d ago
This is so far from the point of the analogy. But when you don't normalize by miles driven, the improvements don't look quite as impressive, especially for pedestrians. https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/fata
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by mitthrowaway2 6d ago
For what it's worth, the fangame "crimson echoes" is a great alternative sequel.
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by mitthrowaway2 6d ago
There's a theory that the best way to reduce fatalities from car accidents is to put seatbelts and airbags in every car. There's another theory that says the best way is by putting a big spike in the driver's steering wheel.
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by mitthrowaway2 7d ago
I'm not denying that there's a shadowy ruling elite cabal of influential billionaires in the US, but if any of them are members of the rationalist community, they're certainly not influential within it . Maybe Elon lurks on
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by mitthrowaway2 7d ago
Who are the rich people you associate with the rationalists? The main influential people I think of in that crowd who steer the conversations are Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander. They're both doing fine financially at this point,
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by mitthrowaway2 7d ago
What do you mean by "ruling"? I would understand "popular".
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by mitthrowaway2 7d ago
> Similarly, those who build AI need to take precautions to make sure the AI they build doesn't accidentally cause serious harm. I am ten thousand percent in agreement that this is needed. And yet, I don't know how we ensure an
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by mitthrowaway2 8d ago
You seem focused on intentional misuse but I think there's an equal or greater potential for harm happening by accident without intention. Nuclear weapons, at least, have so far reliably and predictably done exactly as their owners int
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by mitthrowaway2 8d ago
Reinforcement learning makes it something different. It becomes much more of a search engine through next-token-space that targets the training objective. Better to think about it like that, and then you'll see why "these things h
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by mitthrowaway2 8d ago
Okay, so what should we do? I for one would like nobody to build the AI, is that an option? How do we get it on the menu? Should we trust the people who say "nothing could possibly go wrong and there's no reason to worry or thin
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by mitthrowaway2 8d ago
They're about as insular as the Unitarian church or Hacker News. It's basically an online community where anyone can check in, check out, and leave a comment or an essay. There's no formal structure or membership organization
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by mitthrowaway2 8d ago
Who are the actual scientists and engineers, what do they think, and are they not allowed to to blog? As far as I'm aware, lots of them are actually deeply concerned about AI killing everyone.
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by mitthrowaway2 8d ago
Since we haven't reached the end yet, I'm not so sure.
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by mitthrowaway2 11d ago
Who has the authority to perform that shutdown without getting arrested, and does that person have a mandate and responsibility to take that action in response to AI misbehavior? What is their trigger condition? Will they get fired for pull
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by mitthrowaway2 11d ago
He can slow down his own company kind of like how Zelenskyy can just declare peace in Ukraine. It works a lot better if you can get the other sides to agree.
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by mitthrowaway2 15d ago
They don't cost that much within Japan. No idea why it's so hard to buy them elsewhere, while Korean models are relatively commonplace.
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by mitthrowaway2 17d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_chain_reaction
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by mitthrowaway2 17d ago
Incorrect, they did the calculation first. They decided not to proceed with the test until they were 99.9997% sure the atmosphere wouldn't catch fire.
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by mitthrowaway2 17d ago
FWIW, before any nuclear weapons had ever been tested, a risk was identified that the first one might trigger a self-sustaining reaction in atmospheric nitrogen and destroy the entire planet. Faced with such a scenario, is the prudent nex
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by mitthrowaway2 17d ago
Worst case is warming oceans create a hypoxic environment where anaerobic bacteria thrive en masse and generate H2S over country-scale areas undersea. The chemocline breaches the surface and the ocean and atmosphere become poisonous to most
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by mitthrowaway2 17d ago
Yes. But nobody is worried about datacenters overheating and physically exploding, so I'm not sure what comfort that's supposed to provide? The positive feedback loops in AI operate at different levels than that, but they deserve
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by mitthrowaway2 17d ago
So it should be really easy to anticipate what they're going to do, right?
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by mitthrowaway2 17d ago
He's also setting the bar for other people with scruples to rally around this schelling point. The solution to a multipolar trap is to cooperate. Otherwise, you become the very person with less scruples that you're worrying about.
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by mitthrowaway2 17d ago
Imagine you're the AI. Give yourself a solid minute to brainstorm ideas. Here's my answer, as a non-superintelligent human: "see to it that the humans on top of the situation have a compelling financial interest in the syst
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by mitthrowaway2 17d ago
Why grocery store ingredients and hardware store equipment? It seems feasible that the big bio labs will be running AI models to aid a lot of their research going forward, if they aren't already. Seems like the AI will have access to j
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by mitthrowaway2 19d ago
I don't know, but I've never met my accountant in person. Only spoken on the phone and over email.
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by mitthrowaway2 19d ago
The original discussion was about what can be done digitally by a super intelligent AI.
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by mitthrowaway2 20d ago
I don't think that inner circle would be essential to an AI the same way it is to a human. Even if so, an AI's inner circle is going to be other AIs and they communicate digitally anyway. Also, if you had to pick a year for when w
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by mitthrowaway2 20d ago
How much understanding would you expect to see demonstrated in a one-sentence summary?

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