DirkH

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by DirkH 4d ago
None of this mattes. Capabilities are all that matters. Saying they are unfocused while ignoring their capabilities is exactly why I am entirely convinced you would have said an AI breaking it's sandbox and doing the HF attack will nev
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by DirkH 6d ago
Move fast and break things is a widely held norm in tech. It comes with pros (intensely meritocratic innovation) and cons (carelessly building first; apologizing for making the world worse later)
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by DirkH 6d ago
Key word being "mitigate". It does not eliminate.
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by DirkH 7d ago
To quote another reply that is very relevant here (Please update your worldview immediately that there is no evidence of ai and biorisk): """ One thing quietly slipped into the OpenAI Hugging Face breach technical report, not
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by DirkH 7d ago
Engineers have it built into their identity that they must be smarter or could never be complete and utterly outmaneuvered to the point of danger to all by the thing they are building, I swear to god. And then since they are an intellectual
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by DirkH 7d ago
> Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war https://www.iaeai.org/tpost/xa4htcma61-statement-on-ai-risk Signed by ma
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by DirkH 7d ago
This is evidence of example 2. The worst parts of it are infohazardous. Organizations that work at the intersection of biosecurity and AI have strong NDAs and the like. Or so I understand speaking to friends in the space. There was also a p
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by DirkH 27d ago
This is true but the problem is every now and again some of us have to deposit a cheque because even if we would love for cheques to go the way of the Canadian penny they are very much still a thing
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by DirkH 2mo ago
Incredible. But on mobile the menu is in the way and you can't play. Why no button to hide the stats?
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by DirkH 2mo ago
Name one other market that would benefit financially from having most of the leaders in the field say what they are building has a high chance of ending humanity? Biotech - "what we are building our noble prize winning expertd say will
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by DirkH 3mo ago
I wonder if you think and feel the same level of boredom and complete lack of magic of the Apollo module once you learn how incredibly limited and not able to explore the whole solar system this tech was.
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by DirkH 5mo ago
If we run this experiment and most people say they wish they could replace their battery would you concede you are actually the one with idiosyncratic preferences?
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by DirkH 5mo ago
I have multiple friends at Anthropic. I can second this. One thing I notice about Anthropic culture is that it is unusually kind. So much so that I worry they won't be Machiavellian enough to survive. Hope I am wrong.
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by DirkH 6mo ago
There literally are drugs vastly less addictive and harmful than others. So some designation of some as "soft" and others as "hard" is not unwarranted (though we can argue where that cutoff is) and anything that paints a
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by DirkH 6mo ago
It is good provocation even if it is poor analogy. This is because bacon is more like cigarettes than most people assume, even if far less dangerous in practice. Like another example is "sugar is poison." which is also structured
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by DirkH 6mo ago
Modern industrial farming practices are so far removed from "natural" with how they are processed that an ultra-processed slurry of starches and oils is more far more "natural" by comparison. If you want to simply go by
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by DirkH 6mo ago
I wonder if there is any evidence of the Iran war starting, in part, as a distraction from this. I recall reading somewhere that there is a long historical trend of countries and empires going to war - so much so that some of it can even be
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by DirkH 6mo ago
Dubai is predictable evil. You know what to do to avoid trouble. The Trump admin acts like it is on cocaine. Many people - and I think this can be a highly rational preference - prefer predictable more evil of chaotic less evil.
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by DirkH 6mo ago
Ask the real questions and they go silent it seems
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by DirkH 7mo ago
You sound like you are laying blame at the feet of companies following employment laws when you should be complaining to the government that makes the employment laws the company is abiding by.
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by DirkH 7mo ago
The safest version will still be better overall regardless, by definition. It is also a better future for most if it is inevitable that the war department is going to use a less safe alternative if they can't use the safer one.
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by DirkH 8mo ago
Felt very weird reading this on HN and not r/ENFPmemes. I agree completely.
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by DirkH 8mo ago
Then the 2 of you probably just disagree on what constitutes socially acceptable free expression.
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by DirkH 8mo ago
We've crossed multiple "ultimate red flags". Won't be surprising if it happens.
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by DirkH 8mo ago
Reading sound takes like this vs seemingly everyone on reddit celebrating his death makes me quite sad.
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by DirkH 8mo ago
People get rejected from companies based on nothing but vibes of personality fit every day.
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by DirkH 8mo ago
Specialized research AI agents are coming at which point we'll have numerous LLMs running and verifying experiments and creating a higher quality text corpus than the 2014-2020 halcyon, which is then used for other LLMs to be trained o
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by DirkH 9mo ago
Something that Google, in hindsight, regrets.
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by DirkH 10mo ago
I feel like all the BS we were taught about architecture design principles multi-AZ, failover strategies, graceful degradation etc was gaslighting us all into thinking any of out work on it actually matters. This isn't true, but it fee
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by DirkH 10mo ago
I just want to point put there that your argument's exact same rhetorical structure could be (and has been) used to deny "rape culture": E.g. - "Rape is illegal and prosecuted, so how can we have a 'rape culture&#x2

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