DennisP

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by DennisP 3d ago
Also arms control agreements, which reduced the world's nuclear stockpiles by 90%. In principle we could do something similar for GPU farms, since they're not exactly easy to hide.
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by DennisP 4d ago
If you want an AI that follows your instructions, that's still alignment, just with different instructions. An unaligned AI won't necessarily follow your instructions, or anyone else's.
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by DennisP 5d ago
As I type this comment, 18 out of 30 links on the front page appear to be about things other than AI. I would not call this "almost exclusively AI talk."
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by DennisP 14d ago
Since these are massive neural networks trained to imitate human behavior, I'm not convinced anthropomorphic descriptions of their behavior are inappropriate. And that's even though I don't think they internally experience &q
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by DennisP 14d ago
It was a team of robots. One has battery for three or four hours. I don't think it really addresses the article's concerns about long-horizon tasks or complex object manipulation. The objects were just bags and boxes, the manipula
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by DennisP 14d ago
OpenAI has started doing ads, but for Anthropic the free tier is still just a loss leader. It's basically an ad for their pay tiers.
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by DennisP 16d ago
Oh good. All we have to do to survive is always bother with the most basic duty of care. I'm sure that from now on, humans will take care to do that every time.
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by DennisP 17d ago
Well that's a relief. All we have to do is make sure to avoid human failures and we're safe from superintelligent AI.
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by DennisP 19d ago
That's why I said in my comment that China is "rolling out wind/solar/battery as fast as possible."
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by DennisP 19d ago
But coal is still 49%. The whole point of nuclear in a carbon-free, mostly-renewable grid is to avoid needing enormous amounts of storage and overproduction. That's a need that doesn't come up when you're still half fossil. I
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by DennisP 19d ago
I agree that the utopian tendencies of various groups are irrelevant. So I'm not sure why you brought it up.
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by DennisP 19d ago
Sure, and none of solar's advocates are utopian at all .
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by DennisP 20d ago
Only if we require the knowledge to be built into the weights. Give it access to a search engine and a big library of ebooks, and it might do better.
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by DennisP 22d ago
They say you can cluster up to four with a shared memory pool, and get three times the inference performance of a single machine.
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by DennisP 22d ago
I grew up sailing on the Chesapeake, and we used it for seasickness.
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by DennisP 1mo ago
What I find tiring: the same. writing. style. everywhere. Various youtubers I subscribe to are using apparently AI-written scripts now. They all wrote and spoke just fine before, each with their own particular style. Now they just sound lik
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by DennisP 1mo ago
Good point, we should probably do the same thing with our carbon emissions that we did with the chemicals that deplete ozone. The Montreal Protocol of 1987 successfully phased out over 99% of them.
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by DennisP 1mo ago
You can concoct your own meanings for things all day, but that doesn't mean Irvick was making things up as you clearly implied.
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by DennisP 1mo ago
I'm saying it's false that: > Calling stagex a "niche Linux OS" suggests that hardly anyone uses it.
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by DennisP 1mo ago
Niche: (2d) a specialized market https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/niche In this case the market is "security critical operations."
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by DennisP 1mo ago
Discussing what the law is necessarily means discussing its effect on people. Logically I don't know what else it could possibly mean. Glad you're done at last.
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by DennisP 1mo ago
"You" sometimes means you in particular, but other times it means people in general. That's how the English language works. I think my comment makes clear that I don't even know what district the guy lives in. It simply
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by DennisP 1mo ago
HN != all of internet. "Don't give legal advice" != "never discuss the law." We live in a democracy. Every citizen is ultimately responsible for deciding what the law should be. It follows that we should talk about
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by DennisP 1mo ago
Dude everybody here is smart enough not to rely on internet comments for their legal advice. You don't have to be the gatekeeper. The guidelines say what's on topic here is "anything that good hackers would find interesting,&
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by DennisP 1mo ago
Good point. But if that were their only purpose, there'd be no need to share it with anybody. In fact, they'd get the best results by not mentioning it.
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by DennisP 1mo ago
Of course there was no precedent set. They were using a precedent that had already been set. We'll never know how it would have turned out, but the previous comment implied that corporations always comply rather than going to court on
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by DennisP 1mo ago
If you're in the sixth circuit you're even safer because of Junger vs Daley.
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by DennisP 1mo ago
On the contrary, civil disobedience involves openly thumbing your nose at the state, and it has a long history of successes. Going to the courts instead of the legislature is another strategy that often wins. This is how Bernstein ended exp
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by DennisP 1mo ago
And in fact, Apple in 2016 went to court rather than comply with the government's order to put a backdoor in the iPhone, and they argued their case in part on free speech grounds. Whether other companies do the same depends on what the
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by DennisP 1mo ago
I didn't claim it's a magic unassailable defense. I claimed, contrary to the previous comment, that it's a valid defense. Maybe the courts will carve out a new exception for some particular type of code, maybe they won't

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