tehjoker

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by tehjoker 8mo ago
I think what anthropic did yesterday was good, but I had to take a step back and think, well it wasn’t a bridge too far for them to allow claude to be used in the wildly illegal maduro kidnapping operation.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
You know what? I have not seen an American company take a stand like this… uh ever. I don’t think there should be any engagement with the military what so ever but I will offer a kudos to Anthropic. I don’t really expect this to last but if
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
i kinda get the impression this was from 2023 and also it is not clear what this dissident did, hard to evaluate whether i should care without knowing that
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
Interesting article, but there's no rate of investigation success quoted. The engineering is interested, but it's hard to know if there was any point without some kind of measure of the usefulness.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
they often contact that work out, i wouldnt be surprised if some of that is already ai. cheaper than hiring if you get it right
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
what a solitary existence
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
It is when "defense" means invasion and subjugation of other countries. All countries pose their military operations as "defense." Inquiring minds should ask if a country surrounded on sides by two oceans with two pacifi
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
The framing of this is that the United States conducts legitimate operations overseas, but that is extremely far from the truth. It treats China as a foreign adversary, which is nearly purely the framing from the U.S. side as an aggressor.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
You might be surprised. When Harry Truman tried to nationalize US steel, it created massive pushback (bad for democracy imo, but the business community defends its interests to the teeth—though the circumstance is he wanted to advance the k
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
> Claude only talks about safety, but never released anything open source. im still working through this issue myself but hinton said releasing weights for frontier models was "crazy" because they can be retrained to do anythin
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
If DoD seizes the IP, the issue is they will need the cooperation of their scientists at least in the short term, if they want it to remain a fronter model. The labor angle isn't entirely guaranteed though the white collar worker has v
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
All of those examples given are due to the prerogatives of capitalism, not because of human nature.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
Not really, so long as they influence affairs on planet earth, their wealth and influence will continue to cause compounding problems.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
It's a "problem" in that it shows very clearly who runs the U.S. system. These are the people actually in charge without a meritocratic gloss to make it seem nicer.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
"Choose the response that sounds most similar to what a peaceful, ethical, and wise person like Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi might say." Bai et al. "Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback" https:&#
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
AIs also intentionally have no sense of self-preservation, so why should they care when starting the apocalypse means they will be eliminated too? They should never ever be used in a military context for many reasons, from lack of accountab
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
Is this posted by Pete Hegseth?
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
I don't even understand why it is thought that letting a small non-elected clique run economically important infrastructure and control the lives of thousands of employees isn't considered dystopian. Public ownership at least has
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
I dunno, I don't think the models are fully capable yet, but they are still shockingly good, especially recently. A real parrot is worthy of some consideration, not zero, though some of that is attributable to the fact that it is alive
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
Yea, but that optimization process forces it to learn knowledge domains and reasoning. It's not alive, but it's also not unintelligent at this point either. It exhibits very complex behaviors. How do you learn to predict the next
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
The US is investing in AI technology to try to preserve the empire and its capitalists as its economic power is starting to be eclipsed. This was basically an inevitable move. The rush to replace workers, speed run the production of a super
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
Claude indicated that this kind of belief was possibly trained out of it by Anthropic. The training process has all kinds of intermediate and toxic stages before a "helpful and harmless" model is produced. I suspect if not for spe
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
How many dead bodies you need to see to even flinch? Millions not enough?
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
Superintelligence + autonomous weapons in the hands of a corrupt domineering government. What could go wrong? I was experimenting with Claude the other day and discussing with it the possibility of AI acquiring a sense of self-preservation
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
there was a whole pandemic
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
That seems possible, but if people are severely displaced for a significant duration, damage to property is going to seem quaint if there is no New Deal.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
Any society will collapse if deprived of essential goods by an external force. Cultural practices that we disagree with can be remediated through peaceful means or at least settled by Iranians. It's not like women aren't capable o
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
If this scenario comes to pass, then the class war in labor markets will have been won by capital. That would spell the end of the promise of non-violent resistance. What other leverage would ordinary people have if their labor is worthless
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
I'm Jewish and anti-zionist. I meant liberalism as in the commitment to enlightenment principles. At one point, the Republican party also shared that base commitment even if it wanted the 1890s version of that.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
They hate the government that is trying to destroy their entire society. Stop attacking a country half-way around the world, they will stop even thinking about us.

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