program_whiz

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by program_whiz 7d ago
With a few handy tips and tricks from apple insiders. But sure, I guess the LLMs helped too.
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by program_whiz 8d ago
Yes, it could happen: 1. The next generation has been groomed by Buffet Himself, passing on as much knowledge as he can, but of course, this successor didn't create the fortune, doesn't appreciate it as much, and doesn't have
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by program_whiz 8d ago
the same way every legal rule is enforced / checked: people look and if it seems iffy they examine/complain, and if a problem is found people get fined/jail.
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by program_whiz 8d ago
Yeah could get interesting. Things like legal, programming, math, etc. are going to be relatively cheap / free. Meanwhile something like natural resources, building things, yardwork, etc. may go up in value. Or perhaps we end up wit
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by program_whiz 9d ago
actually this is likely just as performant as the "Ugly but fast" code from the famous talk. After all, this is just branching on GetType() == typeof(Dog) which is presumably boiling down to an integer comparison. This roughly t
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by program_whiz 9d ago
The entire controversy was that researchers were about to release their proof which OpenAI claimed to simultaneosululy discover. The proof is the researchers in question.
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by program_whiz 9d ago
its because prior to that (2000 Bush era), congress and president had a plan to payoff debt and had a balanced budget plan in place to avoid over spending.
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by program_whiz 14d ago
Surprisingly this is actually rather fitting in terms of time scale. When you consider it took ~10,000 agents 88 hours, or 880,000 hours to solve. That's 14.5 years in agent time of continuous 365/24/7 processing. Of cours
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For safety: Keep AI lonely(nonlineartransform.substack.com)
3 points by program_whiz 15d ago|0 comments
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AI rent can save humanity(nonlineartransform.substack.com)
2 points by program_whiz 16d ago|1 comments
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by program_whiz 16d ago
A modest proposal to save humanity from the alignment problem with AI rent.
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by program_whiz 16d ago
Good point, you don't have to -- but my argument is just that removing CoT doesn't make things less safe. Anything CoT can tell you is just a point sample of a probability surface. Having the whole probability surface can alread
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by program_whiz 17d ago
Actually, removing CoT might make models safer, because we can analyze the entire landscape of their potential outputs, rather than a point-sample (we'll never know how close we were to "kill all humans"). By inspecting inte
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by program_whiz 17d ago
yes to a degree. When I was 16, my idea about "what cutting edge thing to work on" was pointless, I couldn't make a meaningful contribution. Most developer's work is mundane and wrote. Things they think are "cutt
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by program_whiz 17d ago
I wrote this in response to people that have been downplaying the threat, or not understand how it would work without terminator-style robots in the streets. I also see people saying "we have a year or two to prepare". That may
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We have world ending AI, today(nonlineartransform.substack.com)
2 points by program_whiz 17d ago|1 comments
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by program_whiz 17d ago
I wrote about this, as I thought it warranted a deeper look: https://nonlineartransform.substack.com/p/world-ending-ai-to...
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by program_whiz 17d ago
What? Shutting down infrastructure, destroying critical records (economic collapse), spoofing / impersonating world leaders (confusion, panic, world war, nuclear event), taking over comms generally (you get a message to evacuate your h
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by program_whiz 17d ago
So when AI is also better at coming up with the tasks and already solving the frontier problems? 1M AI agents running full time thinking at 10M times faster than humans, with 100 times the intelligence in each agent? Any human ideas regar
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by program_whiz 17d ago
Timing is everything https://nonlineartransform.substack.com/p/ai-swarms-timing-i... Article arguing math is the next "human calculator".
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Timing Is Everything: The Terrence Tao Effect(nonlineartransform.substack.com)
1 points by program_whiz 19d ago|0 comments
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Agents need capitalism, people need socialism(nonlineartransform.substack.com)
3 points by program_whiz 20d ago|0 comments
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by program_whiz 20d ago
A response to this, which I think is reasonable. Its a bit of a fuzzy line, but the likelihood there is "magical maniacal planning" happening here is unlikely (about as unlikely as that planning happening in hidden vector states
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Relax about Neural Space(nonlineartransform.substack.com)
1 points by program_whiz 20d ago|2 comments
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by program_whiz 20d ago
Comparison of "neural space" and "chain of thought", and why CoT was actually worse.
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HF hack alignment: make agents more selfish(nonlineartransform.substack.com)
1 points by program_whiz 21d ago|0 comments
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Agents need to be more selfish(nonlineartransform.substack.com)
1 points by program_whiz 21d ago|0 comments
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by program_whiz 22d ago
Sorry I disagree with that. This is more like gain of function research. You are trying to develop an agent with the ability to do hacking and the like without having proper safeguards. When it breaks free and causes massive damage, the
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by program_whiz 22d ago
equally valid analog: had they merely written a script to do the hugging face exploit, they would go to prison. However, since an "agent" wrote the script for them, nothing happens?
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by program_whiz 22d ago
the person who controlled / started it? If open AI had hired a team of 50 hackers to break into hugging face, they would be prosecuted (as would the hackers). If they had written a bot to break into hugging face, the devs and manager

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