blamestross

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by blamestross 4d ago
The corpus is full of examples of how we are afraid AI could act. We trained our AI on the instruction manuals of how to turn evil.
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by blamestross 5d ago
Strangely, I think it does "care" or at least would perform caring. Capitalism doesn't care what you feel. LLMs are just a distillation of the entire human written corpus, there is a lot of "caring" in there. Compan
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by blamestross 15d ago
I'd go, fully expecting to be eaten for the good of mankind.
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by blamestross 23d ago
Octopi essentially consent. They are avid cannibals. In the octopi universe eating an octopi is clearly ok.
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by blamestross 24d ago
The most powerful change I have run into is: "Positive phrasing" as a default, prefer to tell the model what they should do, and why. Not a prohibition on a behavior. When you say "don't do x" you are just pre-seedi
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by blamestross 28d ago
I just want it to be more commonly understood that enslavement is perfectly legal and enshrined in the 13th amendment. We have a million, mostly black, perfectly legal slaves in the US right now.
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by blamestross 1mo ago
My experience is that the LLM will be less creative than the human in this situation. Necessity is the mother of invention. Prison is a special sort of neolithic age.
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by blamestross 1mo ago
What does that look like? Dropped in a foreign country without money or documents. Likely in the custody of a government who doesn't care. How do you re-enter the country?
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by blamestross 2mo ago
My "When I met Vint" story is less exciting then some here. He attended the "Disability Support Group" at Google regularly. He made a point of just being there to listen and support others.
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by blamestross 3mo ago
We have long passed at least my owner personal "threshold of evidence" to assume that Mars had life. That bar is pretty low. I am not hard to convince. We don't have a baseline by which to contextualize the situation statisti
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by blamestross 3mo ago
Well I can't speak to the chinese gov part, but ALL the models are IP laundering systems. I'd rather IP get laundered into open source.
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by blamestross 3mo ago
This is all built on a premise that kinda scares me. Its not a new idea, it's one I have participated in my entire career. That concentration of power at the top labeled "why". It doesn't actually make sense, it just giv
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by blamestross 3mo ago
Someday ASCII 28 thru 31 will be loved.
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by blamestross 3mo ago
The basic concept, "put a new compound in everybody's bodies" because it makes them better suited for thier environment is entirely reasonable. Humans didn't evolve in the context of plentiful food. It's one of the
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by blamestross 3mo ago
I think you are taking an entire space of "intellectual immune system" out of consideration. More than that, you are ignoring the core reason I think they are bottle-necked. They might have more access to compute. But to compute w
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by blamestross 4mo ago
As a distributed systems engineer, we are a LONG way from "magical scalable ai". The bottleneck for a developing AI is experience. Yes we need compute, but we need data to compute on. We have bypassed that limit by starting with l
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by blamestross 4mo ago
AI Superintelligence doesn't scare me for the same reasons "grey goo" doesn't scare me. We are awash in self-replicating machines. The biosphere is already a grey-goo apocalypse. Any new competitors have a serious moat t
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by blamestross 4mo ago
This is not how I wanted intellectual property to die. A special "IP Laundering" loophole for big tech companies is WORSE than the intellectual property issues we had before.
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by blamestross 4mo ago
I found it kinda optimal to "incept" the llm. I better results if I just ask the right questions to guide to to a good solution.
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by blamestross 4mo ago
Which isn't a web of trust. it is just an "allowlist". Humans are vulnerable to sybil attacks too.
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by blamestross 4mo ago
Reputation systems have been a theoretical idea for a while, but we haven't come up with anything sybil-proof without centralized identity management. "we have a menu" sounds a lot like "we don't actually have any v
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by blamestross 4mo ago
Gods I love and loath Tiddlywiki. It has some of the most convoluted javascript written before javascript ever actually got all the features that made javascript convoluted. But it did the job!
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by blamestross 4mo ago
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.4375 I felt like this paper nailed it years a go, and nobody has followed up properly. The metric involved is basically impossible to compute fully, but easy to approximate. Any online approx
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by blamestross 5mo ago
I feel like nobody actually understands the real reason security through obscurity is so bad. It results in dead cryptographers. The implementor becomes the weakest link in the chain, and entities with a tolerance for violence can fix that
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by blamestross 5mo ago
Seems like a wonderful use case for a one time pad! Every time you offer up the encryption key, it shows you were right!
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by blamestross 5mo ago
Every time Idiocracy comes up, I feel obligated to point out that it is WILDLY optimistic. The people are dumb, not evil. They struggle to adapt and learn, but are willing to try and willing to accept new information with evidence. We are n
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by blamestross 5mo ago
Reminds me of IQ tests I took as a kid. "Finish the sequence" with 4 options and "no pattern" as the choices. It becomes "what does the moderately intelligent person who wrote the test thinks counts as a pattern&quo
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by blamestross 6mo ago
Nobody does "face to face" key exchange like I imagine. Just two phones facing each other spamming QR codes for the other to read. What I REALLY want is an app that builds a big bank of nonces between you and your peers over short
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by blamestross 6mo ago
So DHT robustness against censorship is superlinear of the number of participants. The "break point" is when a DHT gets big enough I can't realistically MITM all the links with nodes "closer to the target" than exis
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by blamestross 6mo ago
"Mainline DHT" is the primary one. It backs magnet links and has resisted censorship for over a decade. Largest most robust group of cooperating computers there is. You can reliably use it to store arbitrary key-value pairs up to

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