BlueTemplar

Meanwhile game streaming is extremely resource heavy, needs rock solid Internet connections, and runs into laws of physics for latency issues. But more games will probably go this route, yeah, especially those targeting players of specific (high) wealth brackets. (Boycott them, just like other online-only DRM.)

Comment · 23 days ago

Some of it might be that, but some of it might be more prosaically the same thing that keeps people playing competitive games on one hand, or cookie clicker on the other. (Cookie clicker could read as "pure greed" if you squint.)

Comment · 23 days ago

There are some nasty game theory outcomes to keep in mind here. (See also : cold war nuclear arms race.)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hc4DbmhdzZpSLMQ9Y/the-ai-rac...

Comment · 24 days ago

Interesting, did Instagram start using actual streaming on their videos ?

Comment · 24 days ago

That's not what "sexual content" means, 'porn' is just a subset of it.

Comment · 1 month ago

For "these people", see the recent :

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cJX2ssssGoYqnijwi/the-talker...

One big issue is that we don't even really know what 'intelligence' is in the first place. And everyone's intuitions here are going to be heavily impacted by their deep-seated worldview / philosophy.

For instance if you're a hard dualist (especially of the theological kind), then the idea of a machine having 'goals' is preposterous.

However, if you're more of a panpsychist, then on the contrary, it's obvious. In some sense, even a knife has a 'goal' of cutting things, which will sometimes end up 'misaligned' if misused (or by sheer accident).

You go up and up the chain of complexity through crystals, viruses, bacteria, simpler animals... ending up with humans (and possibly, some steps above : human civilizations) which (seem ?) to be a messy evolved bundle of sometimes conflicting 'goals'.

And we ourselves have now artificially evolved LLM swarms that have decently complex 'goals' of their own. They do not even need to be particularly complex to sometimes cause widespread damage (see viral pandemics, or even the (non-evolved) computer viruses).

In a way, we are currently witnessing a repeat of what happened when European viruses and bacteria landed on American shores, with American humans' immune systems being woefully undertrained to deal with them. But with websites. And thankfully the swarms of agents still ultimately being in the control of some humans. (Though which includes humans that might be your enemies.) At least ultimately still in control for now.

Comment · 1 month ago

Define 'predict', 'ahead' and "like these" − didn't you imagine something like this happening soon after first hearing about 'agents' ?

Mostly related, well written short story :

https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy

Comment · 1 month ago

Because in other circumstances, a hacker might have decided to stop there, and not only not publish, but instead warn the website about their security flaw.

Especially after Bluetouff was found guilty.

In fact, I expect this to have happened many times, but "hacker did the right thing" is much less likely to make headlines.

Meanwhile, agent swarms seem to be (mostly ?) incapable of having this kind of moral compass, at least for now. (And OpenAI isn't doing much better, cough.)

Comment · 1 month ago

It's not completely ridiculous in the sense that when a company is found guilty, some employee (or (sub)contractor) of the company did the actual action.

That employee might or might NOT be found guilty too, possibly to a different degree, depending on the circumstances.