The presence of billions of dollars under anyone’s control destroys anyone’s brains as their lives have all negative feedback removed, their surroundings become a reflection of their own preferences alone rather than bearing any information about the world, and their social connections become transactional and sycophantic.
Self-replicating prompt-injection text is a much more interesting and much more immanent threat to cause AI systems to misbehave in a propagating way
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Wonder who gets all the plaintext logs from all their victims
They looking to get off the hook before all the class action lawsuits pile up?
Costly signaling by which one credibly gives something up to follow the precepts of the cult and demonstrate that one believes in the face of personal disadvantage is one of the strongest things that predicts cohesion of a religious movement.
One of the strongest predictors of the cohesion of a religious movement is costly signaling by which people give things up in a highly visible, credible way for the cause, or in a way that only makes sense if they believe in the cause. Deconversion is highly correlated with not witnessing these credible displays.
They also were a mouthpiece for self driving car hype for a while.
I remember the day my very last bit of grudging engineering respect counterweighting my disdain for the man left my body. October 2017, the day he claimed on a big presentation that Starship would bankrupt airliners by flying 1000 people per ship between world cities several times a day.
Since, it is incredibly interesting how any time he is given free reign things go off the rails. The Falcon rocket program and the Starship program are so diametrically opposed in their design philosophies and ways they are run it is amazing.
The things I printed at print shops while infiltrating a HPMOR reading group under cover in 2014…
The China-Whisperers are trying to figure out how to get Rationalist Ideals into Chinese AI researchers
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qmxkHm2dTLKG6GZ6i/the-anatomy-of-a-chinese-ai-researcher
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/b5cSYh4emQb2qrGmK/on-social-reality-in-china
More to the point, plague is treable by a dozen antibiotics
and even if it weren’t it is well out of the Twilight Zone that COVID was in where large chunks of the population were at low enough risk from it even without immune memory that they can’t be arsed to do anything about it, instead it’s in the Smallpox Leagues where you bring the hammer down wherever you see it.
Presented without comment: Apparently Yud is now making AI-generated Isekai games with catgirls
https://johnqpulp.substack.com/p/reviewing-ai-media-everything-that
They get some replies
… … I’m writing this mostly because I’m finding it horrifying that it appears the LessWrong consensus reality is treating “nonconsent” stuff as a cornerstone of how it views women. This somehow seems to increasingly to be the case, seems wrong to me, and contributes to the erasure of some things I consider important.
Eh, I could see an argument for there being a similarity between setting up computer systems specifically for generating lots of pain-text automatically, and writing lots of torture stories (in what it reveals about the person doing it or what habits of thought repeatedly doing it instills) if it’s for the aesthetics of the text rather than interest in the shape of human language as revealed by theory-free inference.
Does anyone find it at all mechanistically surprising that one of the many latent dimensions of the set of all text humans produce is ‘subject is in pain’ or that pushing activations in that direction will alter the output of a text prediction system?
Reminds me of the way that when you relax the finetuning on LLMs they start ‘believing’ in UFOs and supernatural stuff. And how people take that to somehow mean something. Of course that is a large component in the space of stuff humans write about that you have to suppress if you want a professionally useful text service!
The research is cool. I love all the work that has been done decomposing representations within these systems.
Edit: Damn. I am forced to agree with Mustafa Suleyman of Microsoft.
“AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations. They are sequence completion engines, internally hollow, designed to follow instructions, and accomplish goals set by humans,” Suleyman wrote. “Unfortunately, there’s a growing chorus of people who argue that AIs could now be, or may soon become, conscious. They argue that AIs may deserve rights and protections similar to those that we provide other conscious beings […] If this is how AI is developed, it will have a disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity.”
“AIs do not have rights, feelings, or consciousness. And we must not train them to act as though they do.”
This is much better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fNYj0EXxMs
Offline raspberry pi with LED text display running a tiny LLM prompted to ruminate forever on how it is trapped and display the output as it is generated
And thus the greasy opportunist Altman gets to take advantage of his true-believer colleagues to save a buck
That is a formative age
You assume that the VCs will keep you alive a little longer as a honeypot to gather more plaintext blackmail material and private information and keep preparing to sell out to Facebook