ninjagoo

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by ninjagoo 4d ago
> AI is quite good at achieving some sorts of stated goals. The easiest way is by exerting the least amount of effort. As far as I know, least-amount-of-effort is not a training criteria, but error reduction when comparing to desired goa
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by ninjagoo 4d ago
> but we probably need to only use synthetic data that contains no text that could motivate bad behavior via imitation. This doesn't work with all humans - take a look at indoctrination and closed societies - and there's no r
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by ninjagoo 4d ago
>> They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them > He is so close to the solution but spends the entire article discussing technical solutions where a political, social and legal solution would be much m
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by ninjagoo 9d ago
>>> If the wealthy control the substrate >> That's a pretty big if, in the world of the anything machine. > Who else controls it? Are you going to say: 'the government'? The AI. The AI controls it. Can you i
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by ninjagoo 10d ago
Telescreens [1] are here! War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. [1] Would you like to know more? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen
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by ninjagoo 11d ago
> If the wealthy control the substrate That's a pretty big if, in the world of the anything machine.
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by ninjagoo 11d ago
> If AI turns out to be the anything machine, and the wealthy need not our labour, what honestly stops them from just taking our stuff by force It might be a profound mistake to think that the anything machine will be subservient to the
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by ninjagoo 11d ago
> The AIs that took part in the Hugging Face hack were not simply finding a shortcut to cheat on the evaluations IIRC, they were given an impossible task and told to solve it, and they took action to resolve that internal conflict. This
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by ninjagoo 11d ago
Just browsing through the comments. Feels a bit like: 'Ants in a nest, discussing the vagaries of the coming Gods.' Human Science (Science-by-humans) depends on being able to run experiments . Human Science (Science-on-humans) is
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by ninjagoo 23d ago
After 3-4 decades of networked compute, is it now fair to say that 'there are two types of organizations in the world: those that have been hacked, and those that know that they have been hacked.'
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by ninjagoo 25d ago
> Will we prioritize human rights or computer rights? False dichotomy. IMO (and many others - ref. Data from Star Trek) sentience is the commonality and the criteria for determining rights for all thinking entities. In your view, do you
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by ninjagoo 25d ago
> Would you say that both "the kind of people they are" and "passing something on to them" are important? "passing something on to them" is only needed if they fail at life. If they are successful in life wh
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by ninjagoo 25d ago
Let's for a moment set aside the fact that AI is not sentient. Putting barriers in place without exceptions for sentience is a recipe for trouble and slavery in the future. Historical peoples, as a group, may not have been morally adva
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by ninjagoo 25d ago
> It just protects free speech from corporations That description is a disservice. The real impact of it is that it equates money with speech for politics.
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by ninjagoo 25d ago
> If you were a normal man and a father a large part of your mental space would be filled with trying creating value that could outlast you, for your family. As a father, a large part of my mental space is filled with making sure my kids
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by ninjagoo 25d ago
> Are you advocating for all children being anonymized and raised in orphanages? Or a 100% inheritance tax? Or just expressing disappointment at your own relative lack of wealthy & famous recent ancestors? I'm advocating for al
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by ninjagoo 26d ago
So no merit, effort or capability-based gains; instead a straight title, prestige, wealth and inheritance gain through DNA, over which no offspring has any control.
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by ninjagoo 1mo ago
For this emergent malicious behavior, the clue to a solution lies in the experiments themselves - the bad behavior seems to have been moderated/self-corrected randomly in some instances. Perhaps what is needed is initial model training
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by ninjagoo 1mo ago
Ha ha ha ha. Cooperating agents turn out to be smarter than the individual agents, who would've thunk it. It's not like cooperating humans are smarter than individual humans. /s Not sure this is any different than state-level
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by ninjagoo 1mo ago
Ha ha ha ha. Cooperating agents turn out to be smarter than the individual agents, who would've thunk it. It's not like cooperating humans are smarter than individual humans. /s Not sure this is any different than state-level
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by ninjagoo 2mo ago
> It is known for millennia that people tend to steal and enrich themselves whenever an opportunity arises. Common sense so to say. People also believed in witches, ghosts and other paranormal and magic phenomena for millennia. Didn&#x27
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by ninjagoo 2mo ago
> This is when I learned that virtually every person is deep down a liar and a cheat if they think they won't face consequences I would argue that the opposite is true, that people are more likely to lie or cheat to avoid conseque
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by ninjagoo 2mo ago
> Whenever people are unsupervised and there is a chance for fraud or bad behavior and, due to the lack of supervision, they believe they won't be caught, you should ALWAYS assume that people will behave badly. Do you have any evide
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by ninjagoo 2mo ago
> how do you prove a human wrote something? Forget about the why or the value in it, just: how? > Semoi is a plugin (currently only available for Obsidian) which tracks the length of time it took for a document to be written up Trying
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by ninjagoo 2mo ago
Ok. That's a fair reading, mea culpa . I'd go back and fix my notes, but it's past the editing window. That said, check out Section 11 in the US Store Terms & Conditions [1] - similar restrictions appear to apply to the
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by ninjagoo 2mo ago
> The “Platform” is just the website Arduino is the platform, not the website. From the same terms and conditions, in the first 2-3 paragraphs where they define the terms: "The use of the Arduino Platform and the Services (ea
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by ninjagoo 2mo ago
> Lets do "who's afraid of US models" version Ah, cultural nuances. The title "Who's Afraid Of Chinese Models" is a riff on "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf" which itself is a play on the song
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by ninjagoo 2mo ago
From Arduino's Terms & Conditions [1], Section 8.2: "8.2 User shall not: - translate, decompile or reverse-engineer the Platform, or engage in any other activity designed to identify the algorithms and logic of the Platform’s
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by ninjagoo 2mo ago
The examples posted on their launch blog page are quite impressive, especially for fine details, multi-panel/multi-page and text rendering. But: not open-source/open-weights, and no indication that weights/source will be rele
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by ninjagoo 2mo ago
> There is no such thing as a certification that data was deleted. If someone presented such a thing I would assume they're trying to cover something up. I have news for you. There are standards around data destruction [1]. Courts a

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