swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

“You’re going to lick boot in 20 years anyway, why not get used to the taste now?”

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Abundance just be repackaged free-market libertarian shit. The liberals that are pushing it are participating in the storied liberal tradition of courting reactionaries and fascists, thinking they are immune to the effects of intero-abyssal staring.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 5 days ago

not debate club

source? (jk jk jk)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The comments are fun. Here's the pinned comment, authored by the video's author:

I'm not the best at thinking on the fly, so here are two key points I tried to make that got a little lost in the discussion:
1. I think our entire disagreement rests on Eliezer seeing increasingly refined AI conclusively making the jump to actual intelligence, whereas I do not see that. I only see software that mimics many observable characteristics of intelligence and gets better at it the more it's refined.
2. My main point of the stuff about real v. fake + biological v. machine evolution was only to say that just because a process shares some characteristics with another one, other emergent properties aren't necessarily shared also. In many cases, they aren't. This strikes me as the case for human intelligence v. machine learning.

MY CONCLUSION
By the end, I honestly couldn't tell if he was making a faith-based argument that increasingly refined AI will lead to true intelligence, despite being unsubstantiated OR if he did substantiate it and I was just too dumb to connect the dots. Maybe some of you can figure it out!

Here's my favourite:

"Ooh Ross making an interview!"
5 minutes in
"Ooh Ross is making an interview Neil Breen of AI".

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

“It’s really hard to think about alignment. Maybe we need to redesign thinking” type shit

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

Kony 2012 but make it robots

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s like watching CPU vs CPU in a fighting or sports game. It’s pointless.

Saltybet catching strays. But that’s okay. That’s how saltybet rolls

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Iyo? Io? Ive? Nah, fuck all those guys. Give me Ivo, give me Amazo.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, right. That. Reminds me of that old adage about monsters and abysses. "Fighting monsters and abyss staring is good and cool, actually. France is bacon." Something like that, don't fact check me.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 3 weeks ago

My AllTrails told me bears keep eating his promptfondlers so I asked how many promptfondlers he has and he said he just goes to AllTrails and gets a new promptfondler afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding promptfondlers to bears and then his parks service started crying.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

titotal?!?!? I heard they were dead! (jk. why did they stop hanging here, I forget...)

 

Abstracted abstract:

Frontier models are increasingly trained and deployed as autonomous agents, which significantly increases their potential for risks. One particular safety concern is that AI agents might covertly pursue misaligned goals, hiding their true capabilities and objectives – also known as scheming. We study whether models have the capability to scheme in pursuit of a goal that we provide in-context and instruct the model to strongly follow. We evaluate frontier models on a suite of six agentic evaluations where models are instructed to pursue goals and are placed in environments that incentivize scheming.

I saw this posted here a moment ago and reported it*, and it looks to have been purged. I am reposting it to allow us to sneer at it.

*

 

Didn’t see this news posted but please link previous correspondence if I missed it.

https://archive.is/XwbY0

 

This is somewhat tangential to the usual fare here but I decided to make a post because why not.

I’ve been listening to the back catalog of the Judge John Hodgman podcast, and this ep came up. This ep is the second crypto based case after “crypto facto” in ep 333.

John Hodgman is a comedian, probs best known for being the “I’m a PC” guy in the “I’m a Mac” ad campaign from ancient times. In the podcast, he plays a fake judge that hears cases and makes judgements. In this ep, “Suing for Soul Custody,” he hears a case in which a husband wants to sell his soul on the blockchain, while his wife does not want him to do that.

Some good sneers against the crypto bro husband (in both this case and the other I linked). Brief spoilers as to the rulings in case you don’t want to listen:

333Judge rules that the husband should continue to mine ETH until his rig burns down his house.

556Judge rules that the guy shouldn’t sell his soul, for symbolic reasons.

Note: I like John Hodgman. He’s funny. He’s not really inside the tech space, but he is good friends with Jonathan Coulton, who is. If all you know of him is the “I’m a PC” ads, he has an entertaining wider catalogue worth checking out.

 

On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin.

Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9

 

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

 

TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

 

Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

 

As is tradition I am sharing this link without having listened yet.

 

The video game in question:

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