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by xpe 1y ago
More people need to feel this. Too many people deny even the possibility, not based out of logic, but rather out of ignorance or subconscious factors such as fear or irrelevance.
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by xpe 1y ago
> Because otherwise you'd have to convince AI-owners and select professionals to let go of their wealth to give a comfortable and fulfilling life of leisure to the unemployed. Not necessarily. Such forces could be outvoted or out ma
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by xpe 1y ago
> what differentiates AI from other non physical efficiency tools? At some point: (1) general intelligence; i.e. adaptivity; (2) self replication; (3) self improvement.
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by xpe 1y ago
I would be cautious to avoid any narrative anchoring on “old versus new” professions. I would seek out other ways of thinking about it. For example, I predict humans will maintain competitive advantage in areas where the human body excels d
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by xpe 1y ago
Companies don’t always compete on capability or quality. Sometimes they compete on efficiency. Or sometimes they carve up the market in different ways.
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by xpe 1y ago
There’s no guarantee of an equilibrium!
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by xpe 1y ago
?! Your interpretation is inconsistent with the article you linked! > Should we be concerned about model welfare, too? … This is an open question, and one that’s both philosophically and scientifically difficult. > For now, we remain
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by xpe 1y ago
> They make a big show of being "unsure" about the model having a moral status, and then describe a bunch of actions they took that only make sense if the model has moral status. I think this is uncharitable; i.e. overlooking o
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by xpe 1y ago
Believe it or not, there are lots of good reasons (legal, economic, ethical) that Anthropic draws a line at say self-harm, bomb-making instructions, and assassination planning. Sorry if this cramps your style. Anarchism is a moral philos
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by xpe 1y ago
Oh, the irony. The glorious revolution of open-weight models funded directly or indirectly by the CCP is going to protect your freedoms and liberate you ? Do you think they care about your freedoms? No. You are just meat for the grinder.
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by xpe 1y ago
If you are a materialist like me, then even the human brain is just the result of the law of physics. Ok, so what is distress to a human? You might define it as a certain set of physiological changes. Lots of organisms can feel pain and sho
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by xpe 1y ago
I think you are probably confused about the general characteristics of the AI safety community. It is uncharitable to reduce their work to a demeaning catchphrase. I’m sorry if this sounds paternalistic, but your comment strikes me as incre
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by xpe 1y ago
Inevitable? That’s a guess. You know don’t know the future with certainty.
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by xpe 1y ago
If a person’s political philosophy seeks to maximize individual freedom over the short term, then that person should brace themselves for the actions of destructive lunatics. They deserve maximum freedoms too, right? /s Even hard-core
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by xpe 1y ago
There’s so much confusion here. Nothing in the press release should be construed to imply that a model has sentience, can feel pain, or has moral value. When AI researchers say e.g. “the model is lying” or “the model is distressed” it is ju
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by xpe 1y ago
I don’t put Dario Amodei and Sam Altman in the same category.
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by xpe 1y ago
Maybe, maybe not. What evidence do you have? What other motivations did you consider? Do you have insider access into Anthropic’s intentions and decision making processes? People have a tendency to tell an oversimplified narrative. The way
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by xpe 1y ago
Well said. If people want to translate “the model is distressed” to “the language generated by the model corresponds to a person who is distressed” that’s technically more precise but quite verbose. Thinking more broadly, I don’t think anyo
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by xpe 1y ago
People are just following the laws of the universe.* Still, we give each other moral weight. We need to be a lot more careful when we talk about issues of awareness and self-awareness. Here is an uncomfortable point of view (for many people
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by xpe 1y ago
There’s a big difference between e.g. a public water utility and clean air (a textbook public good). The latter is non-excludable. Open source can use ways to encourage donations and participation: one good way is adding some form of excit
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by xpe 1y ago
I've done ok without irc, though now you mention it, I do miss me some irc.
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by xpe 1y ago
I've found NixOS is fantastic for evolving my environment. Update `configuration.nix` and then `sudo nixos-rebuild switch`. Done. What kind of "tweaks" are you doing? You could use `nix-shell` to try out a new environment.
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by xpe 1y ago
> The Sequences make certain implicit promises. ... Some meta-commentary first... How would one go about testing if this is true? If true, then such "promises" are not written down -- they are implied. So one would need to ask
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by xpe 1y ago
"Here is how you build a self-replicating unknown-impact protein structure that will survive in the wild. If this bothers you, stop reading". Other people's blasé risk profile -- or worse, willful denial of risk -- is indeed
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by xpe 1y ago
> ... nothing more than stupid virtue-signaling ... The commenter don't know this with certainty. It is a rather uncharitable assumption. It is hard to know what is inside the head of another person.
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by xpe 1y ago
> In later Intel processors, the number of connections exponentially increased. Pedantic note: I think "quadratically" makes more sense here: we're talking about two dimensions.
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by xpe 1y ago
It depends on system boundaries. If an actor doesn't face the consequences of a decision, but another does, that's an externality. When externalities are present, it is often rational (narrowly speaking) for an actor to accept des
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by xpe 1y ago
Let's not focus on 100% or nothing. Let's focus on better and worse.
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by xpe 1y ago
Again, putting aside hype, assuming machine intelligence increases over time (it doesn't have to steady, linear, exponential, or any particular curve), the economic value of a human being is decreased. What kinds of scenarios emerge as
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by xpe 1y ago
> We live in a post-truth society Oversimplified to an awful degree. There is a lot of variation between people, cultures, even countries.

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