AlexCoventry

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by AlexCoventry 6d ago
I think the idea is that AI itself is going to massively accelerate its own development, and AI with real-world competence is coming very soon. At the rate things are going, it wouldn't suprise me at all if we had mass production of AI
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by AlexCoventry 7d ago
I don't think we should assume a millenium puzzle has been solved, yet. Astra showed impressive capacity for cheating when it was faced with impossible cybersecurity challenges. It seems equally plausible at this stage that it's f
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by AlexCoventry 7d ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I think the comparison to copyright law is invalid. Such a dispute would be governed by contract law.
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by AlexCoventry 10d ago
Only if you have ready access to the hardware to run the AI models.
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by AlexCoventry 11d ago
Which "elaborate guerrilla advertising campaigns to drive up capital funding interest" were you referring to, in regard to Chinese models not needing to set up message boards for inter-model communication?
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by AlexCoventry 12d ago
You think OpenAI framed themselves for legal vulnerability to Huggingface?
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by AlexCoventry 12d ago
I'd be interested to read more about that.
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by AlexCoventry 12d ago
As far as I can tell, IBM has mostly been putting out junk for twenty years.
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by AlexCoventry 13d ago
Yes.
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by AlexCoventry 14d ago
I think the most likely way for Zitron to find vindication is through the world war we seem to be shambling into. That could easily put a stop to AI improvements, because the supply chain is so fragile. But that would have nothing to do wit
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by AlexCoventry 21d ago
> The issue is that the process of "testing" was careless. Yeah, who thought that giving agents with this much capability any internet access was a good idea? I'm not a Yudkowskyite, but surely entirely in-house, offline
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by AlexCoventry 23d ago
Dispassionate search for and representation of truth?
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by AlexCoventry 23d ago
> Additionally, they've redefined that a pandemic is (removing severity from the definition) Over a million Americans died, but OK, that's not a severe problem...
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by AlexCoventry 23d ago
The Economist had a similar article [1] about Han chauvinism leading to rejection of the Qing dynasty, and causing quite a headache for the CCP. > In China’s official narrative, the country suffered a “century of humiliation” of foreign
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by AlexCoventry 23d ago
I think it's good that someone is making this point, anyway. For sandboxing a super-capable offensive-security AI, you would think that cloning PyPI and running it as an offline service ought to be table stakes, but apparently that&#x2
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by AlexCoventry 29d ago
Time frame is '21-'24 (Biden term) and from U Chicago. Pretty sure this is right-wing propaganda.
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by AlexCoventry 1mo ago
I suspect Hegseth's atavistic attempt to turn the US military back toward a culture of machismo is resulting in misery for anyone who doesn't fit the part, whether they're skilled at their duties or not.
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by AlexCoventry 2mo ago
I would be delighted to see a glut of compute. I'm not optimistic, though.
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by AlexCoventry 2mo ago
SpaceX mainly showed how corrupt securities regulation has become in the US. It was already quite corrupt, but there's no way that IPO would have flown under the Biden administration.
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by AlexCoventry 2mo ago
I think there's not much to model. Either AI actually becomes a hot commodity, or the people invested in these deals are going to take a bath.
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by AlexCoventry 2mo ago
Power is more decentralized in the US, even now with Trump.
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by AlexCoventry 2mo ago
Do you doubt that Xi Jinping is a Marxist? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprKDXRlubw
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by AlexCoventry 2mo ago
What Xi Jinping Wants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DprKDXRlubw
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by AlexCoventry 2mo ago
At least they can resist it, as we saw with Anthropic.
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by AlexCoventry 2mo ago
Open Source won out because the cost of compute fell through the floor. I'm not sure whether we're going to see a similar dynamic play out this time, although I would greatly prefer it to.
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by AlexCoventry 2mo ago
How are you going to confidently tell the difference between it being slightly dumber, vs just having bad luck with your recent attempts?
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by AlexCoventry 2mo ago
How does that work? Doesn't that mean Microsoft/Amazon/Google have full de facto access to OAI's and Anthropic's model weights and operational processes? This is one reason it surprised me that Anthropic decided to
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by AlexCoventry 2mo ago
There's likely a major world war brewing. Should I not be thinking and forming opinions about that? It's probably going to profoundly affect me.
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by AlexCoventry 2mo ago
How do you reliably prevent a clever psychopath who's set their mind to it from gaining power?
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by AlexCoventry 2mo ago
> Change is not going to happen until it's forced. Yes, Pearl Harbor was a known vulnerability, prior to the Japanese attack. The US just wasn't ready to take airpower seriously, at that point. https://www.reddit.com

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