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DiploBench – watching LLMs play Diplomacy(diplobench.com)
1 points by laverya 29d ago|1 comments
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by laverya 29d ago
We all want our AI models to be trustworthy, right? But it would also be nice if they achieve the tasks we request of them. What happens when the task requires planning and responding to deception and betrayal? For those who are unfamiliar,
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by laverya 4mo ago
Location: Michigan, USA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Go/Golang, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Operators Resume: https://laverya.com/resume/ Email: laverya at umich dot edu works I spent the
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by laverya 8mo ago
Do those people actually _repair_ hardware, or do they swap bad hardware for good chips? Can SpaceX not just say "OK, GPU #7 on satellite #15872 is broken, don't use it" and just accept that they're now overbuilt on powe
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by laverya 1y ago
Australia and the UK are commonly used in the US gun control debate as places where gun confiscation worked, and CA/HI are the states with the most restrictive gun control policies. My response was meant to illustrate that this was ess
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by laverya 1y ago
Agreed, but the difference in the use of rifles in assassination attempts between the US and UK/EU/AUS/etc can't purely be because of a lack of gun control in the US if the same rifles are available in those other countr
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by laverya 1y ago
Even California and Hawaii don't ban hunting rifles. Same with Australia and the UK. Can you name a single country that totally bans the ownership of all firearms and enforces it? Would you like to live there? (The rifle used isn'
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by laverya 1y ago
Yeah except for arpanet, GPS, satellites in general, jet engines, composites, computers, and everything that came from there... What has military r&d ever done for us?
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by laverya 1y ago
Not to mention "just fly east" will get you to land just fine from Hawaii. It might not be the land you were looking for, but it will be land - so even if the direction finding failed the error would be survivable.
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by laverya 1y ago
Compare that to computers, which had been around for the best part of 40 years... in 1980.
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by laverya 1y ago
> The best national security is for it to be in the interest of the counter party to trade with you rather than attack you. Sure, but if your biggest export is your country's particular flavor of monopoly money, is it actually in yo
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by laverya 1y ago
I had one at University of Michigan, but that was almost a decade ago now.
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by laverya 1y ago
Third world countries unironically have bigger militaries than Canada. Certainly Iraq pre-invasion made them look like a pushover! That's not to say that invading would be painless, but let's not pretend that Canada would have a c
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by laverya 2y ago
Has everyone forgotten the lessons of open-source cryptography all of a sudden? Just because the systems are public does not mean that they are vulnerable, and "security through obscurity" is no security at all.
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by laverya 2y ago
> You don't get to "put back" security for SSN data when it's already been accessed by foreign governments. "Good" news then, this is already the case! Or should very much be assumed to be the case, followin
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by laverya 2y ago
The tariffs on Canada have now been paused after a promise to enhance border security (which was reportedly already in the works) So who knows at this point
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by laverya 2y ago
The official statement from the White House calls out increased fentanyl production in Canada as the reason - but doesn't say that it's the majority of imports, you're right. The twitter summary says "There is growing pr
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by laverya 2y ago
What I've been seeing is people saying that Canada is the source for most fentanyl coming into the US, not Mexico. (This is also the US's stated reason for tariffs on Canada)
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by laverya 2y ago
97. Well, I guess the US is one of the countries best able to implement Autarky today, so let's give it a try! Trade makes things more efficient. Trade gives access to resources not available otherwise. Trade allows greater economies o
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by laverya 2y ago
Most rockets flew test flights before sticking people inside the same model, but most rockets are also single use and so each stack is fundamentally new. A future starship could plausibly be the first rocket to fly to space unmanned, return
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by laverya 2y ago
Imagine you're an ISP. If your customer has slow bandwidth to some random website, they will blame the website. If they have a slow connection to YouTube, they will blame you. So YouTube gets more favorable terms on transit bandwidth t
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by laverya 2y ago
General aviation stats might not be entirely applicable to commercial aviation, of course. The planes are less redundant, less well maintained, and flown by less experienced crew - it's hard to tell which of those factors will tend to
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by laverya 2y ago
You only need to be moving ~7.5-8km/s, but getting to orbit tends to take 9.5-10km/s of total delta-v due to needing to ascend, aerodynamic drag, and other losses.
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by laverya 2y ago
Don't forget the Cornfield Bomber! The pilot ejected from this F-106 (a single-seat, single-engine all-weather interceptor) after passing through 15,000 feet in a flat spin - and the plane promptly exited the flat spin and proceeded to
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by laverya 2y ago
It's not even that. You can host third-party speech without Section 230, you just also gain liability from moderating that content.
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by laverya 2y ago
> Please explain to me how lower launch costs will help weather prediction. Cheaper launch means more weather satellites covering more spectrum from more angles than otherwise. > What is this special low cost rocket sauce that enables
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by laverya 2y ago
I think they can probably do both at once - heatshield testing and pez dispenser testing shouldn't interfere with each other, so might as well use whatever spare upmass you have! Yeah you might lose the payload, but SpaceX has the chea
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by laverya 2y ago
There have been quite a few demos over the years where voting machines are hacked. Now, this does not mean that they were hacked, for real, in a real election. It does mean that it is possible to do, and in ways that paper ballots are not
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by laverya 2y ago
Perhaps we need to try the Tokyo model, with multiple competing subway/rail companies. But unfortunately most cities are nowhere near the size and prosperity of Tokyo.
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by laverya 2y ago
I think you're missing that the suggested path is not "let's seize the factories", but instead a return to "distributed charity" like we had before the Great Depression.

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