manux

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by manux 1mo ago
This is a very relatable comment. I think it's demoralizing to see common objections to AI, it feels to me like we failed and haven't done our communication job. I'm always temped to go, "Yes, but there's worse!&quo
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by manux 2mo ago
But in the process of finding every security vulnerability in the software you write, would you be ok with your model hacking AWS to start mining bitcoin? Would that still be aligned with you? (I'm guessing not) That's the alignme
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by manux 2mo ago
I guess we could debate what counts as alignment, but I think my initial point remains that if the underlying base model needs these classifier guardrails so badly then the way we train the base models is creating fundamentally misaligned m
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by manux 2mo ago
Echoing other responses to you but this isn't a capability problem. You're totally right that this is so last year in terms of LLMs being capable in infosec. The issue here is an alignment one, i.e. the model seemingly isn't
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by manux 2y ago
In Canada, all three major AI research centers use clusters created with public money. These clusters receive regular additional hardware as new generations of GPUs become available. Considering how these institutions work, I'm pretty
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by manux 2y ago
The intent behind media matters but isn't all that matters. How people might interpret something is important (albeit often unpredictable). I think the symbolism of "let's crush all remaining vestiges of creative culture&quot
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by manux 3y ago
> Demis now has a load of people reporting to him who previously were rooting for his failure Having been in both places (Brain and DM), this feels so far from what I experienced that I must ask, what are you basing this on?
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by manux 4y ago
I know, the CAQ is full of xenophobes, and it can suck not looking white in Quebec (although much less so in Montreal). I'm skeptical that it drives rent prices in any detectable way.
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by manux 4y ago
Not really no, there's been a bump which studies seem to agree is an aftereffect of COVID, but the media is also paying more attention to it. There's always been some amount of shootings and stabbings in Montreal, and 99% of Montr
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by manux 4y ago
Wow, what a take. I seriously doubt that people in Montreal/Quebec are more or less xenophobic than the average North American; if you have data supporting this I'd be happy to change my mind. Also please be more skeptical of thou
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by manux 4y ago
> maybe things just move so fast This is definitely the case in DL (and I'm assuming elsewhere too but I wouldn't know). I've lost count honestly, running 1-2 year old paper github repos with some detail missing (like the
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by manux 5y ago
Yeah! This kind of reasoning is why it's exciting to think that we could use the GFlowNet machinery to construct latent representations--ones that map more directly to the notion of "beliefs" that we're used to think abo
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by manux 5y ago
What the permutation invariance gets you is that the model doesn't arbitrarily prefer one (graph) configuration over another, but this seems tangential. The difference between this and RL is in what we do with the reward: - RL says, gi
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by manux 5y ago
I think the inspiration came to me from looking at SumTrees and from having worked on Temporal Difference learning for a long time. The idea of flows came to Yoshua and I from the realization that we wanted some kind of energy conservation&
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by manux 5y ago
Yes, although they may not be ideal unless you're able to define a "distance" between a proof that the agent is proposing and whether that proof is correct (i.e. unless you're able to define a reward or energy function).
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by manux 5y ago
Hi, first author of the original NeurIPS paper here! Someone just shared this HN post with me. I'll go through the comments but happy to try to answer questions as well.
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by manux 5y ago
Yeah the "net" in GFlowNet refers to how the underlying state is interpreted, not to an architecture. It is a way to train generative models, on any kind of discrete data (like graphs). Source: am first author of original GFlowNet
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by manux 5y ago
It's quite likely some people will come out of reading this thinking we should stop sending people to grad school. Shouldn't we instead take this as a signal that it needs improvement? Grad students are one of the very few subpopu
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by manux 5y ago
A more nuanced take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21NxJS_zYDY
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by manux 5y ago
> Getting China to stop coal would be more effective than getting the USA to stop beef. Fighting climate change is not a game of "what would be more effective" and ranking solutions (especially in between countries), it's
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by manux 5y ago
I fail to see how this is the case, but perhaps I'm missing the point you're trying to make? What you're referring to is about colonialism, whereas here the USA is very much incentivized to work within its own borders, on its
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by manux 5y ago
...and the USA is a large country of >300M people. It must lead in humanity's work towards reducing GHG. What is your point exactly?
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by manux 5y ago
Well you did say that > almost everyone seems to believe that real incomes have totally stagnated. suggesting that this is a false belief. I think this can easily be interpreted as you saying "inflation is fine" (even though th
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by manux 5y ago
> massive ocean container ships, coal plants, the extraction of every type of ressource but all these things... serve consumers. Container chips contain goods that people buy, that required resource extraction and transport.
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by manux 5y ago
Inefficiencies aren't always bad. Efficiency, for example, is often the opposite of robustness. Many companies have learned that the hard way when COVID hit, even though they had an efficient supply chain and production pipeline, it wa
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by manux 5y ago
What about the self-censorship of our neo-cortex telling us not to insult other people? Is that bad too? Expression, and respectful expression, is a very nuanced and complex topic. This dramatic post presents the far end of the spectrum whe
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by manux 6y ago
Here's an analogy: laws vary from country to country, from state to state, city to city. But we understand the principle of law-making, what laws mean and how they're applied. This is fairly uniform. What really changes from place
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by manux 6y ago
> The real problem with ethics is that it's not a science This is simply untrue. The goal of AI ethics research is (also) to build algorithms where one of the _inputs_ is a set of ethics. It doesn't matter what those ethics are
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by manux 6y ago
> it's mutating at a breakneck pace I agree that it's changing faster than a century ago, but I don't think "breakneck pace" is a fair qualifier. Lots of people comfortably adapt to new norms and change how they
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by manux 6y ago
The Culture series by Ian M Banks has an interesting take on this, if this kind of sci-fi interests you!

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