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by hamburga 9d ago
Chicago resident here. Not disputing the methodology, but our state is the nation's leader in tornadoes (by more than a factor of 2) due to Niña/Niño this year, and Chicago spent a few days this summer with the world's worst
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by hamburga 20d ago
As far as I can tell, there were no credible criminal charges against this group, except that they are effective organizers on the opposite side of political spectrum. In the White House’s deranged logic, this qualifies them to be officiall
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by hamburga 10mo ago
>> This raises an important question: if AI models can be misused for cyberattacks at this scale, why continue to develop and release them? The answer is > Money. For those who didn’t read, the actual response in the text was was:
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by hamburga 1y ago
Socrates famously complained about literacy making us stupider in Phaedrus. Which I believe still does have a large grain of truth. These things can make us simultaneously dumber and smarter, depending on usage.
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by hamburga 1y ago
Yup, though he was also intentional about not copying word-for-word, but rather trying to predict the next token (or phrase). https://muldoon.cloud/2025/05/17/frankin-llm.html
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by hamburga 1y ago
But assuming no new models are trained, this competitive effect drives down the profit margin on the current SOTA models to zero.
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by hamburga 1y ago
> This reminds me of a paradox: The AI industry is concerned with the alignment problem (how to make a super smart AI adhere to human values and goals) while failing to align between and within organizations and with the broader world. T
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by hamburga 1y ago
I’m still waiting for somebody to explain to me how a model with a million+ parameters can ever be interpretable in a useful way. You can’t actually understand the model state, so you’re just making very coarse statistical associations be
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by hamburga 1y ago
There are a lot of people here who reflexively flag anything remotely close to US politics.
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by hamburga 1y ago
How long until Palantir gets a contract to do the same work for Russia?
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by hamburga 1y ago
AI is definitely a significant force multiplier in many areas. Still, an individual in total isolation has limited agency.
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by hamburga 1y ago
> The argument that persuaded many of us is that people have a lot of desires, i.e., the algorithmic complexity of human desires is at least dozens or hundreds of bits of information I would really try to disentangle this. 1. I don'
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by hamburga 1y ago
All it takes for somebody to nuke Atlanta is an atom bomb and an airplane and somebody willing to fly the plane. I’m being facetious but there ARE ways to decide/act as a society and as subgroups within society that we want to disallow
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by hamburga 1y ago
A single person acting in isolation (no friends, no colleagues, no customers) has very little agency. While theoretically a single person could release smallpox back into civilization, we have collectively selected it out very effectively.
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by hamburga 1y ago
Thank you for this. It gets exactly to the heart of the issue and what I sense is being missed in the AI alignment conversation. “What does ‘aligned’ mean” is and ethical/political question; and when people skip over that, it’s often t
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by hamburga 1y ago
> AI Alignment is different because it is trying to align something which is completely human made. Not sure what you’re getting at here; pharmaceuticals are also human made. The point in the blog post was that we should also want drugs
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by hamburga 1y ago
Agreed - and this was definitely my intent with the blog post. If you only do Selection passively, you’re abdicating your ethical responsibilities to contribute to AI Alignment.
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by hamburga 1y ago
Why can’t we infuse Selection with Goodness? We’re the ones doing the selecting. We’ve selected out things like chattel slavery, for example. (Disclaimer: fell asleep after 10 minutes of reading the SSC post last night. I know it’s part of
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by hamburga 1y ago
Indeed. Tolstoy does a deep exploration of this in War and Peace, using the example of Napoleon. Of course, this gets to the heart of the free will debate (to be settled in a future post ;)). Both are true at the same time - organized peopl
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by hamburga 1y ago
Also see Commandment 7 - https://muldoon.cloud/2023/10/29/ai-commandments.html
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by hamburga 1y ago
This is how society collapses and OpenAI wins.
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by hamburga 1y ago
Not totally following your last point, though I do totally agree that there is this historical drift from “AI alignment” referring to existential risk, to today, where any AI personality you don’t like is “unaligned.” Still, “AI existential
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by hamburga 1y ago
> this is a call for more people to enter the space Part of my argument in the post is that we are in this space, even those of us who aren’t ML researchers, just by virtue of being part of the selection process that evaluates differen
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by hamburga 1y ago
Thatcher was briefly a research chemist; it’s extra weird that she couldn’t see beyond the atomic unit, to the societal equivalents of complex organic compounds.
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by hamburga 1y ago
Agreed. I see this more and more as the AI safety discourse spills more into the general lexicon and into PR efforts. For example, the “sycophantic” GPT 4o was also described as “misaligned” as code for “unlikable.” In the meme, I filed thi
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by hamburga 1y ago
I find myself using the term “human superorganism” a lot these days. Our bodies are composed of many cells and microbes working together; and if we zoom out, we have the dynamics in which human individuals operate together as superorganisms
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Problems in AI alignment: A scale model(muldoon.cloud)
49 points by hamburga 1y ago|43 comments
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by hamburga 1y ago
Fun read, thanks for posting! > If I had time to do it and if I knew more about how AIs work, I’d be putting my energies into building AIs whose sole purpose was to predate upon existing AI models by using every conceivable strategy to f
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by hamburga 1y ago
Seems like a fellow traveler with the Wolfram Model of physics. But they’re also making falsifiable predictions. According to Gemini 2.5 Pro: “Based on the content of the provided PDF, "RBT_v1.0_release.pdf," the research presente
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by hamburga 1y ago
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