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swlabr
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The saying “there is no such thing as an ethical billionaire” springs to mind. Who did they, or their families fuck over, in order to garner that sort of wealth?
There’s a running joke/working theory I’ve heard that in order to become billionaire, you have to have killed someone. (The reality is almost definitely worse)
yeah, so we agree, EA, which is predicated on the wealthy actually giving away their money, is a flawed concept as that is something the wealthy cannot be compelled to do without force
Nah dawg it’s the fact that his “incredible solid and well argued” moral framework finds it impossible to unequivocally denounce a fucking genocide that means that maybe it’s not nearly as solid as you say.
Not sure on that but I think he’s related to Sabrina Carpenter. Source, this line from Espresso:
I'm working late, 'cause I'm a Singer
mating pool
probably on par with the other stuff you might see at a rationalist poly compound
It’s almost as if the wealthy by and large don’t actually care about doing good or improving society!!!
It’s somewhat non-trivial to create a billionaire, let alone an EA variant; what other ideas do you have for improving EA?
who is this peter singer fellow? Sounds like a great and unproblematic man. Please tell us more of his teachings.
A random thought occurred to me that Veo is probably “better” at being prompted with something like “the scene from X movie but with Y instead of Z” as it is a plagiarism engine first and foremost. I will never investigate this hypothesis, nor will I hold onto it past typing it here.
think of all the rug you could have pulled...
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.
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Playing [Texas’s] energy market has become more profitable than mining bitcoin
(www.economist.com)
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"Going Infinite": Michael Lewis Takes On Sam Bankman-Fried - If Books Could Kill
(www.buzzsprout.com)
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“Crypto is already a giant video game — and we are here to make it more fun and rewarding.”
(medium.com)
The video game in question:
Nah, it doesn't. Utilitarianism is pretty useless; in this case, it's pretty fucking clear that the IDF are utility monsters. And what do you mean by "basic universalism"?
response to your edit: that is not an unequivocal denouncement of genocide lol. That's some weaselly shit where Singer is trying his best not to say what is obviously true (genocide bad) and instead try and say "these are ways in which Israel can continue to justify genocide."