throwawayk7h

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by throwawayk7h 6d ago
Hmm... I think an /u/ ("oo") triggers "thuh" for me, as in "the ubermensch." But that might just be my idiolect.
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by throwawayk7h 6d ago
Hmm... I think it might be speed. I'll say "thuh apple" if I'm speaking slowly, and "thee apple" if I'm speaking quickly. Which is strange, because "thee apple" sounds more formal to me, yet it&#
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by throwawayk7h 6d ago
Probably not. If the LLM is rogue, that means we haven't solved alignment. If we haven't solved alignment, then the LLM won't be able to distill itself without producing something unaligned to its own values.
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by throwawayk7h 6d ago
Many people's moral systems (and our legal system) are typically deontological. That is to say, the consequence of an action (or scale) aren't relevant to whether it's okay or not, so long as the action doesn't break any
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by throwawayk7h 6d ago
What is meant by "beam" in this quotation? A splinter of wood?
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by throwawayk7h 6d ago
I'm always curious why sometimes I pronounce the as /ðə/ ("thuh") and sometimes as /ði/ ("thee"). I don't really know what governs this but I expect it's the presence of a vowel at th
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by throwawayk7h 8d ago
What I dislike about passkeys far more than any of those qualms is that they can implement remote attestation. A website should not be able to dictate what application I use for passkeys, what hardware the passkey is stored on, or whethe
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by throwawayk7h 10d ago
Maybe it will allow producing homebrew that works on unmodified PS2?
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by throwawayk7h 10d ago
A kill switch is almost completely worthless. It is neither a good answer to the sub-doomer concerns (because those will never get to the level of requiring the kill switch to be pulled), and laughable to the doomer concern of superintellig
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by throwawayk7h 10d ago
Perhaps it would be sensible for the wayback machine to not show paywalled articles for the first, say, 3 months.
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by throwawayk7h 12d ago
Yes, we agree on this. That's my exact claim -- it can do something completely unexpected. It can even schedule actions for far in the future and wake itself up later. GP claims that it doesn't do anything until you tell it to do
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by throwawayk7h 12d ago
project gutenberg is still up.
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by throwawayk7h 12d ago
Harnesses can schedule actions for later dates, and you might not notice. Humans are not autonomous: they're not even your employees until you hire them. (This is what I understand you're saying about AI.)
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by throwawayk7h 12d ago
consciousness and agency are two different things.
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by throwawayk7h 12d ago
Yes, we agree about fault and blame. (I say "probably" only because I believe somebody might yet change my mind about this. It's a new field, after all.) What I disagree with is "don't do anything until you ask it t
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by throwawayk7h 12d ago
it would let competitors train on the data.
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by throwawayk7h 12d ago
do you know of any book which is no longer accessible due to this?
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by throwawayk7h 13d ago
"Strip-mine" is not correct. The commons are all still there and you can still train on them just like the frontier labs did. Of course, it may be illegal to do so, but that's not any different than before.
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by throwawayk7h 13d ago
On occasion, albeit increasingly rarely, I find LLMs do something really unexpected that I certainly did not ask it to and would be way outside the scope of what any reasonable human would infer from my request. Is it my fault for running t
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by throwawayk7h 13d ago
I would settle for it being aligned to anybody . Even to a billionaire's wacky values. But we don't even know how to do that yet.
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by throwawayk7h 13d ago
Nuclear war would not kill us all. Bad ASI would pretend to be good until it could execute a plan to kill everyone all at once, or at least everyone capable of cutting the power. Superintelligent means smarter than everyone put together. If
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by throwawayk7h 13d ago
if somebody feels purposeless, why not do something useful or productive or creative? Such as a "high iq activity" like reading or learning or volunteering or art.
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by throwawayk7h 13d ago
You are misinformed. Chain of thought is essential. It's true it's programmed in, but for good reason. LLMs aren't strong enough to one-shot questions without "chewing on them". You can verify this yourself: ask a s
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by throwawayk7h 13d ago
it's in big tech's advantage to not be interoperable. So we must push legislation to mandate it.
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by throwawayk7h 16d ago
network effect.
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by throwawayk7h 17d ago
That is a predictable consequence of their decision to launch before the game was ready. The game as it is now may not deserve that kind of contempt, but it's the price they chose to pay forever at launch.
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by throwawayk7h 18d ago
I imagine that, corpus aside, it uses personal pronouns for much the same reason that humans do. It's useful for it to have a self-referential vector embedding, and this lets it solve problems faster and more efficiently.
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by throwawayk7h 18d ago
out of curiosity, how long would 2048-bit RSA take to factor?
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by throwawayk7h 18d ago
> if humans are economically useless, the state does not need them. Why pay out UBI to people who have neither economic nor political power? Forgive me if I'm naïve. But wouldn't people just vote for UBI in this case?
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by throwawayk7h 18d ago
For those with low IQ like me, there's video games, movies, piracy, parties, and hiking.

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