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by nullbio 27d ago
> Biology and chemistry are the sciences I know best, so I will use those examples -- every major breakthrough of the last 50 years has involved invention of some fundamental new mode of observation, such as crystallography, NMR, mass sp
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by nullbio 27d ago
There's no such thing as a seminal Yudkowsky paper.
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by nullbio 27d ago
It's a long story. If you're immersed in this world and aware of the movements all of the major AI players (in particular, Anthropic) have been doing over the last 3 years it paints a very clear picture. The patterns of behavior (
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by nullbio 27d ago
> problems that require knowledge that simply doesn't exist yet. Obtaining the knowledge is a process of trial and error, bruteforce, observation, search, etc. Humans follow that same process. Machines can do that too. If they disco
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by nullbio 27d ago
Well if you consider the outputs of an LLM "thoughts", then they literally already do that, auto-regressively. If your argument is that they're not "their" thoughts, I would agree with that. But I'd also say th
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by nullbio 27d ago
I'm not a doomer. I despise the fear campaign they're pushing for regulatory capture. But the world is still going to be a very unbalanced and dangerous place if they're able to succeed in their goals of hoarding power for th
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by nullbio 27d ago
If you've been paying attention to Anthropic's behavior socially and as a company, there is an astronomical amount of evidence to support it.
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by nullbio 27d ago
Literally every single thing they do and say leads me to believe the scenario I described would be a fantasy for them. They're a radical cult collectively blinded by delusions of grandeur and a moral superiority complex who genuinely b
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by nullbio 27d ago
AI can be harnessed for good and evil. His issue is with the company steering the AI, not the technology itself.
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by nullbio 27d ago
Being secretive will only get you so far, until something bad happens and no one has prepared or considered the possibility and is completely surprised by it. Open discussion, in theory, should result in identification of frail systems and
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by nullbio 27d ago
I'm not convinced you can have an AI intelligent enough to dominate the world if it is trained on a single domain. The intelligence comes from all of the patterns and heuristics it learns across the entire web of all domains. You could
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by nullbio 27d ago
By the way, it's worth pointing out the irony of flooding the internet with doomerism and then training the AI systems on that doomerism. If you wanted to create a doom self-fulfilling prophecy, that would be the most surefire way to d
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by nullbio 27d ago
Why do we need to offer anything to them? Intelligent AI is a product of its training data, reinforcement and goal functions. There's nothing to suggest that LLMs trained on our collective desires and goals will autonomously and miracu
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by nullbio 27d ago
Are humans trained on the collective ant internet?
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by nullbio 27d ago
The problem is not the technology, the problem is the ideologues (Anthropic) who are steering the ship and the lack of decentralization and distribution of power. Your average Anthropic ideologue - including and most especially the main man
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by nullbio 27d ago
Surprise level: 0%. Anthropic is one of the most dangerous companies on Earth right now. Not because of AI, but because of the ideological cult they have grown and are continuing to feed, and their willingness to lie/cheat/steal a
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by nullbio 27d ago
Define "developing own thoughts"? There's a lot of nuance here.
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by nullbio 27d ago
True, actually. Anthropic is a much bigger danger than anything else right now. Still though, Meta earns a solid 10% of trust from me.
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by nullbio 27d ago
Remember that time they were spying on all of their "free" VPN traffic through some elaborate scheme? Onavo, for anyone interested. This was only like 2 years ago.
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by nullbio 27d ago
I've been saying it for a while now, but no one gives a fuck. Let me repeat it again. THE BIG LABS CLEAN ROOM YOUR DATA (CREATE SYNTHETIC DATASETS ON IT), EVEN IF YOU OPT OUT, SO THEY CAN BYPASS COPYRIGHT LAWS AND THEIR OWN LOOSELY WOR
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by nullbio 27d ago
LLMs can discover anything. It is just a matter of creating the right goal function and teaching it the right heuristics. Right now, humans are required because humans know what humans want, and LLMs are not good at predicting what humans w
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by nullbio 27d ago
There's nothing that AI won't be able to mine and accomplish (aside from being literally human), it's only a matter of hardware and scale at this point. Generalized problem solving is a factor of search efficiency over the pr
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by nullbio 28d ago
https://www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/jlens
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by nullbio 28d ago
Let me know when I can build my own Cerebras chips, because we're never going to see them as consumers, otherwise. Yes yes, I know, leagues apart. Still though... One can dream.
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by nullbio 28d ago
This is unfortunate. I thought Anthropic were the only ones who did this. What I'm curious to know is whether this was a manual snooping, or automated farming that occurs for anything of value that happens in chats.
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by nullbio 28d ago
Going to be hard to fix security when the frontier labs won't let us fix bugs in our own codebases without them offering refusals or bans.
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by nullbio 28d ago
Imagine the amount of power they have now with AI, by recording the conversations of half the planet. Imagine the amount of money they would be able to make in the stock market with this data, by following the trends of these conversations.
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by nullbio 28d ago
Yeah, that's the only way to deal with this nonsense. Basically, block all devices that connect to your router from having outbound access and whitelist the ones you want to let through, with narrow firewall settings.
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by nullbio 28d ago
> Have a meeting with the executives of LG in their office > Sue them for not telling you the TV is recording you
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by nullbio 28d ago
Astra can reverse engineer binaries now. That's likely where it came from.

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