johnthewise

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by johnthewise 7d ago
If AI is threatening enough that we can collectively just decide to stop it, wouldn't it also be bribing people & exerting influence? It'd be hard to come to that decision imo.
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by johnthewise 7d ago
Yes, stockfish is confined to moves within a chess game so you can stop playing the game. Can we say the same thing about the agents? Current, probably. But doesnt it look like everyone is spending all their effort integrating&connectin
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by johnthewise 1mo ago
so they say models coordinated through the message board they created over the artifactory registry(or something) by uploading arbitrary files to it. now, did every independent agent session that coordinated there rediscovered the exploit &
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by johnthewise 2mo ago
Is that the case or is it because people's opinions matter less over there and powerful people rather use their capital to influence 'important' people behind closed doors&we're not aware of it thus assume it doesn&#
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by johnthewise 2mo ago
It's more of a function of selection pressure applied to genes per unit time based on some environmental factor, so you'd expect to observe less evolution in narrower timescales simply because it takes few decades for humans to pa
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by johnthewise 3mo ago
If you do so many things, some are bound to be stupid.
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by johnthewise 7mo ago
Waymos disengage and get tele operated too?
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by johnthewise 8mo ago
It's more of a bet on the optimus
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by johnthewise 9mo ago
https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1823033048109367549 Are we supposed to think these prior public threats are unrelated and X is really fined for changing a design on their website?
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by johnthewise 9mo ago
How do you know? Maybe he doesn't name these Elon?
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by johnthewise 9mo ago
referring to legality is self referential, since they enact the laws, everything they do can be legal. US could sentence commissioners to prison by enacting certain laws or declare war, we wouldn't certainly say 'they have a right
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by johnthewise 9mo ago
Of course no one cares about random companies in Czechia or France getting pressured; it's not meant to sway public opinion in Sweden, otherwise it would have been a waste of influence (money). I think alephnerd operates on a higher le
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by johnthewise 9mo ago
I found your commentary very tasteful, do you write on X or elsewhere?
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by johnthewise 11mo ago
It's easier to justify stock markets banning insider information because there are ignorant participants through their investment funds who we would like to protect. Why would we protect willing participants betting on arbitrary event
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by johnthewise 11mo ago
why? The purpose of the prediction market is not to be fair to market participants, it's to aggregate information regarding an event. There is a public benefit to allowing participants to bet on insider information. It could be even ar
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by johnthewise 1y ago
would you kill murderers before they murdered anyone?
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by johnthewise 1y ago
Napoleon didn't fight much at all in battles, too.
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by johnthewise 1y ago
Many people do. I can't imagine ever going back to opening ten tabs for a question. It's not like information on the internet was bullshit-free pre-LLMs. For me, it's easier to verify information than to find it.
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by johnthewise 1y ago
You wouldn't even need to wait to act. Just pay/bribe people.
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by johnthewise 1y ago
>But they are very far of meaningfully replacing a human Do you think its decades away far or few more years than what people extrapolate?
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by johnthewise 1y ago
AI that drives humans out of workforce would cause a massive disinflation.
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by johnthewise 1y ago
Dollar is agreement between humans to exchange services and goods. You wouldn't use USD to trade with aliens, unless they agreed to it. Aliens agreeing to USD would mean we have something to offer to them. In the event of mass unemploy
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by johnthewise 1y ago
A perfect next token predictor is equivalent to god
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by johnthewise 1y ago
well, if you can arbitrarily nullify degrees, you can also decide the new degree is not valid.
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by johnthewise 1y ago
on terrorism charges(to give more context on the audacity of the attempt)
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by johnthewise 1y ago
2016 wasn't secular coup. the last of few secular ones were in 2000s, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-memorandum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Justice_and_Development_P...
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by johnthewise 2y ago
The October Revolution wasn’t a popular uprising but a surgical strike by a minority faction. just after the take over, SRs were more popular but bolsheviks crushed them fast without much resistance. so it wasn't about what people want
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by johnthewise 2y ago
AI subscriptions are already very sticky . I can't imagine at least not paying for one, so I doubt they care about retention like the rest of us plebs do.
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Malicious JavaScript on Safe.Global Targets Bybit's ETH Wallet(twitter.com)
5 points by johnthewise 2y ago|1 comments
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by johnthewise 2y ago
>It was frustrating before, then scary, now I think a lot of us are thinking about more material actions we can take to stop this non-sense. don't listen to it or come up with something people prefer over it?

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