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by xpe 2y ago
> DeepSeek isn't just some unknown nickname > just like an asteroid hitting Earth So much one-sided rhetoric.
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by xpe 2y ago
DeepSeek has been caught making backdoors. https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/blog/deepseek-a-new-play...
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by xpe 2y ago
> If you're so worried, you could run it in an airgapped Faraday cage and do all your training in that environment. Just don't run it on any centrifuges. Really? More rhetoric that minimizes legitimate security concerns? Again,
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by xpe 2y ago
> I think that worrying that a self-hosted file system has a backdoor to exfiltrate data is an odd concern. Great security teams get paid to "worry", by which I mean "make a plan" for a given attack tree. Your use of
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by xpe 2y ago
> I think that's a pretty odd concern to have. Thinking about security risks is an odd concern to have?
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by xpe 2y ago
> Whistleblower protections don't mean much if the brute squad snatches you off the street and throws you on a plane regardless of what the law says. Activism isn't either/or; do what you think is best!
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by xpe 2y ago
I did some quick research on this. McKinsey has a pretty slick-looking web-facing report titled "Global Energy Perspective 2024" report [1] has a table [2] showing breakdowns by industry. [1] https://www.mckinsey.com&#x
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by xpe 2y ago
> Statistically prediction and description are two sides of the same coin. Even a simple average is both. I'll restate your comment in my language in the hopes of making it clearer. First, the mean is a descriptive statistic. Second
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by xpe 2y ago
> The statement “AI is normal technology” is three things: a description of current AI, a prediction about the foreseeable future of AI, and a prescription about how we should treat it. A question for the author(s), at least one of whom
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by xpe 2y ago
> One important caveat: We explicitly exclude military AI from our analysis, as it involves classified capabilities and unique dynamics that require a deeper analysis, which is beyond the scope of this essay. Important is an understateme
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by xpe 2y ago
> Malicious idiots surrounded by sheepish intelligent people. Prefixing people with "sheepish intelligent" is bound to oversimplify this. Many of the non-DOGE employees who directly see wrongdoing are likely making calculated d
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by xpe 2y ago
> Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic have a chance at this point I'm so done with articles that don't even try to talk about probability sensibly. The article doesn't make a good case even for a watered-down version of the claim
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by xpe 2y ago
Here is one key take-away, phrased as a question: when a student uses an LLM for "creation", are underlying aspects (understanding, application, analysis, and evaluation) part of the learning process?
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by xpe 2y ago
> Bloom's taxonomy is a framework for categorizing educational goals, developed by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom in 1956. ... In 2001, this taxonomy was revised, renaming and reordering the levels as Remember,
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by xpe 2y ago
Are comfortable and repairable shoes possible and sensible from an economic point of view? Any recommendations?
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by xpe 2y ago
“Obituary” is a poor word choice. A shame, because the article otherwise is detailed and interesting.
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by xpe 2y ago
I notice four downvotes so far for stating a fact that a debate exists. My comment above didn't even make a normative claim. For those who study AI risks, there is indeed a _debate_ about the pros and cons of open weights. The question
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by xpe 2y ago
Have you sought out alternative positions that you might be missing?
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by xpe 2y ago
I suggest getting to ground on how OPSEC works (or doesn’t) for the White House, NSC, and others. To what degree are various intel agencies proactively versus retroactively involved? This is probably very complicated. Common sense guesses o
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by xpe 2y ago
The wisdom of open weights is hotly debated.
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The about page doesn’t shed light on the composition of the core team nor their sources of incomes or funding. Am I overlooking something? > We are a group of people with diverse talents and interests.
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by xpe 2y ago
> No one cares about facts anymore. There is no need to exaggerate. But I'm not only calling out a poor choice of words... A lot of people (not as many as we would hope, I grant) care about the truth about facts. Even in this group,
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by xpe 2y ago
1. I don't think the comment above gets to the "root" of the problem, which is "the LLM appears overconfident". Thankfully, that problem is relatively easy to address by trying different LLMs and different pre-promp
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by xpe 2y ago
Funny but uncharitable. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by xpe 2y ago
> All of these companies are selling AI as a tool to do work for you, and the AI _sounds confident_ not matter what it spits out. If your LLM + pre-prompt setup sounds confident with every response, something is probably wrong; it does
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by xpe 2y ago
Did you have your conclusion in mind before running your back of the envelope calculation? Many people do this much of the time. That often results in motivated reasoning. One way to reduce that tendency is to use multiple POVs of analysis.
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by xpe 2y ago
> Achieving goals? Why not define it as making predictions? Because "achieving goals" subsumes "making predictions". Remember, Russell's goal is to find a definition of intelligence that is broader than humans --
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by xpe 2y ago
> This whole conversation has been about reducing intelligence to its defining component. Not really, but I can see why you might say this. Neither Russell nor I are attempting to define "the one component" of intelligence --
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by xpe 2y ago
Prime Target gets horrible reviews for botching cryptography in cringe-worthy ways, not to mention horrid acting. Normally I would avoid such a sarcastic comment about a video series, but given the Apple TV platform, it gets a lot of eyes a
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by xpe 2y ago
Who wants to bet that Steve Thompson [1], creator of Prime Target on Apple TV, might incorporate lava-lamp based entropy into season two, if we're unlucky enough to witness its creation? I've been wondering how much worse the show

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