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Large-Scale Qualitative Research with AI(arxiv.org)
2 points by alansaber 2d ago|0 comments
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by alansaber 3d ago
Anthropic's sense of ethics is completely aligned with its economic incentives. Shocking, right.
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by alansaber 3d ago
Exactly, people are jumping at the shadow on the wall- LLMs have achieved remarkable things regarding their limitations, but those limitations show no signs of yielding
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by alansaber 3d ago
Why draw the line at the industrial age? Humans subsisted for millenia before the ready preparation of fire.
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by alansaber 3d ago
Technology advances, but extrapolating the value of human labour to 0 is equally invalid.
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by alansaber 3d ago
I agree with this. The substansive counterarguments all revolve around the short-term economic and emotional instability this causes
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by alansaber 4d ago
The frontier companies asking for regulation is somehow one of their less insane marketing ploy to date
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by alansaber 4d ago
Sometimes it's good enough to acknowledge a correct answer, and slowly build intuition towards it. Academic problem solving is rarely a straight path, anyway.
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by alansaber 4d ago
Griftmaxxing and terrible ideas tend to go hand in hand
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Mapping WYSIWYG diffs to AI runs and sources(lexifina.com)
2 points by alansaber 5d ago|0 comments
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by alansaber 5d ago
I doubt taxi drivers were forced to experience an ego death to the same extent
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by alansaber 5d ago
I'm unsure how any sufficiently advanced AI would not lead to cognitive handoff/the described problems.
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by alansaber 5d ago
Admittedly it's not as if the government is immune to massive data leaks either
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by alansaber 5d ago
Age verification is the silver bullet for personal data collection. Open internet enthusiasts hate this one simple trick!
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by alansaber 5d ago
Antisocial behaviour is easier, major crime is harder. Doesn't seem like the worst tradeoff to me.
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by alansaber 5d ago
Pragmatist meets moralist
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by alansaber 5d ago
And how could we not be? The world is unfathomably big and complex, and each of us wants their own narrative (well that, and to economically support loved ones, etc...)
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by alansaber 5d ago
Realpolitik moment
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by alansaber 5d ago
I think it's just the most evocative of the plethora of environmental arguments
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by alansaber 5d ago
A more up-to-date analogy would probably be the people who refuse to fly in commercial aviation.
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by alansaber 5d ago
A lot of the "none of this feels good" is that the models have been RL'd to produce longer and longer outputs. You don't start with a 1 paragraph explanation, being forced into a back-and-forth with the model so much any
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New audit combo for AI agents(lexifina.com)
3 points by alansaber 6d ago|1 comments
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by alansaber 6d ago
If it didn't work, they wouldn't be doing it.
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by alansaber 6d ago
Just like a dirty nuke you need a non-trivial amount of resources to fabricate a bioweapon, which would surely be noticed.
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by alansaber 6d ago
Fair enough that they did a "propoganda and censorship" eval but not sure why i'd care about that in my highly juiced SWE kimi FT.
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by alansaber 6d ago
Oh they for sure classify conversations by type (cybersecurity, other guardrail proximates?) and quality.
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by alansaber 6d ago
Yeah but marketing companies are aggressively fingerprinting and stalking you to sell you snacks from japan, or oscilloscopes because they figured out you work in a lab, etc. Not to fuck you over by stealing your livelihood (which is what i
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by alansaber 6d ago
I think the heart of this issue is: people assume they have anonymity in numbers, but we have the tools to make it easy to scoop your data if it's interesting to the company.
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by alansaber 6d ago
Obviously, any pullback in technology or society comes secondary to our psychologically rooted need to whinge.
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by alansaber 6d ago
I'm not a doomer, but when it comes to the internet, I only see things getting worse.

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