RGS1811

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by RGS1811 4d ago
No, my argument is that the need to pace the frontier means they cannot safely advance in capability due to liability concerns. The competition is already almost caught up. If OpenAI/Anthropic have hit an upper bound on safe capability
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by RGS1811 4d ago
Alignment just means "this machine operates in ways that align with the intent of its users". It doesn't imply anything about the inscrutability of the machine in question. A gun with a misaligned scope would likewise fail to
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by RGS1811 5d ago
I don’t understand all the comments assuming that RSI is the real threat here. Dario is admitting that they failed to solve alignment. Without alignment, further improvements in capability turn LLMs into wanton felony generators. This call
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by RGS1811 5d ago
It's not about job security. It's about the social and intellectual practice of the discipline. The threat to mathematics isn't that suddenly the profitability of their profession (lol) is going to go away, it's that peo
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by RGS1811 8d ago
`/model claude-opus-4-7`
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by RGS1811 8d ago
I get this, and I’ve said similar things about privacy and security in the past, but Meta in particular has a history of intentionally using customer data and behavior to the detriment of those customers. Creating experiences designed to en
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by RGS1811 9d ago
I have a hard time understanding, given the abundance of bad faith and predatory behavior Meta has displayed over entire span of its existence, why anyone would want to consult with its "personal AI" or grant it access to "
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by RGS1811 9d ago
By your own admission, (top of your first comment) you don't know what you're talking about. I never implied you aren't aware of the Holocaust. Thinking that the Holocaust is the only history to know here is indicative. You d
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by RGS1811 9d ago
There's a big difference between "I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it" and "I disapprove of your stated objective to expel german citizens who don't meet your ethnic/
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by RGS1811 9d ago
Caldwell is a Claremont guy, which is key to understanding where he's coming from. First Things is an christian nationalist / natcon outlet funded by (among others) Peter Thiel. That doesn't prevent him from being correct abo
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by RGS1811 13d ago
I've been reading and rereading the Philosophical Investigations this summer. Later Wittgenstein is such a gift for keeping your head clear in the era of LLMs. Anyway, delightful site. More people in tech should read LW, both the Tract
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by RGS1811 14d ago
…yes, actually, I made my comment after reading them call out this problem in the report.
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by RGS1811 14d ago
Given that this investigation was largely carried out by AI agents (and I don’t mean to ask this flippantly), how trustworthy is this report? Why should we assume that the agents reading the transcripts were not implicitly conscripted into
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by RGS1811 18d ago
For me personally, the answer is no. Fable is adequate to do basically anything I want to do. My perspective, broadly speaking, is that we've saturated most of the benchmarks because we've largely saturated our capacity to verify
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by RGS1811 21d ago
This is low confidence prediction, but IMO this person’s org is setting itself up for disaster. Who is accountable for all the slop they’re shipping if nobody even knows what it does anymore? Related: https://elliotmilco.substack
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by RGS1811 22d ago
I love Otto Dix, but this essay reads like Christian propaganda. Which is to say, its presentation of the material discussed is superficial and reductive in ways that clearly serve to advance a Christian point of view.
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by RGS1811 23d ago
I was really hoping for mechanical clicking and movement. Also for a glider gun.
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by RGS1811 1mo ago
Reasoning is not separable from the particulars of a specific language game / linguistic practice. I’m sure some of the things the author predicts will happen, but the idea of some sort of abstractly perfect reasoner separated from the
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by RGS1811 1mo ago
This is fantastic. Now I have a sophisticated-sounding german word for my attention deficit.
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by RGS1811 1mo ago
Democracy depends on public education about policy needs, not just electoral fundraising and stupid campaign ads. This video is a brilliant piece of political rhetoric, because it says “here’s an issue you should care about”, gets a little
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by RGS1811 1mo ago
The future you're describing is Wall-E.
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by RGS1811 1mo ago
> The audiophiles were right, however. No, they weren't actually. It's fine to enjoy vinyl. I have some myself, but the audiophiles were no more right about sampling rates than they were about paying for platinum-coated speaker
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by RGS1811 1mo ago
Norbert Wiener in 1960: "As is now generally admitted, over a limited range of operation, machines act far more rapidly than human beings and are far more precise in performing the details of their operations. This being the case, even
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Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation (1960) [pdf](cs.umd.edu)
2 points by RGS1811 1mo ago|0 comments
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by RGS1811 1mo ago
Yes, it is autonomous to excess and lacks the moderating curiosity one would expect from a human collaborator that would check over-eagerness and prevent it from committing costly mistakes. I have stopped using Opus 5 completely and switche
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by RGS1811 1mo ago
Plato is delightfully weird and engaging and way more fun to read than Aristotle, agreed.
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by RGS1811 1mo ago
Actually reading Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics is worth it. Not because he's right about everything (he has some pretty messed up and weird views), but because it's challenging and good to think on, and chances are you&#x27
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Deontic Scorekeeping, Commitment Laundering, and the Ring of Gyges(elliotmilco.substack.com)
1 points by RGS1811 2mo ago|0 comments
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by RGS1811 2mo ago
It would be generally beneficial for people engaging in this sort of discussion to read Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “Philosophical Investigations”. Not a summary. Read the actual book, stew on it a bit, have some thoughts.
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by RGS1811 2mo ago
Funny enough, I didn't know, but your comment made me look it up, then I tracked down a PDF of the book, read the relevant section, and wrote my reply. So, even if I didn't help you out, you helped me lol.

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