MrOrelliOReilly
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Comment · 3 days ago
In this age of constant change, I am grateful that at least I can still rely on Google for confusing, ever-changing product names.
Comment · 9 days ago
Chicanery! As others have stated, this is total AI slop. How do these things get upvoted?
Comment · 18 days ago
This is a deflationary comment. You make a good point that the weights today are detectable, but I think proofs of concept around poison pills are very important. I am unaware of any theoretical reason why an attacker or misaligned model could not one day find a way to disguise a poison pill such that it is indistinguishable from the normal weights. There could be such limits, but research in this direction is very useful!
Comment · 19 days ago
Hopefully it's benchmaxxing. I am terrified of the idea of Zuck leading the frontier of intelligence.
Comment · 23 days ago
Does this response properly anticipate how math will change further with the next N model generations? Exposition and exploration may fall well within the capabilities of future models.
Comment · 24 days ago
Tell me you you don’t use frontier models regularly without telling me you don’t use frontier models
Comment · 1 month ago
The Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich. A sad book!
Comment · 4 months ago
I'm not sure I follow your logic. Paying for a service does not mean you get access to all potential services a provider offers. Providers can choose to keep some services internal.
Silly example: I pay Netflix for their most basic plan, so I get ads. Just because I already pay them money, doesn't mean I have a right to no ads! It also doesn't mean I have a right to 8k streaming; maybe Netflix reserves that for their internal cinema.
Comment · 5 months ago
My read is that this is motivated purely by cybersecurity concerns. I don't have the impression that the whitehouse is suddenly x-risk pilled. Still, it's good to see the US taking steps towards regulation of powerful AI. Also a sign that regulation remains a topic with bipartisan interest.
I'm not really clear what it means to be designated a "covered frontier model" however? If it's a standard term, I haven't encountered it before.
Comment · 5 months ago
Clearly AI-generated writing (confirmed with Pangram). Amazed this has so many upvotes—are people even reading the article?
@dang I know you have so far resisted a rule for AI-generated content (as we now have for comments), but I personally would prefer a flag for articles so that I don't waste my time on slop.
Comment · 5 months ago
This article is pretty slim on details, but I agree with the general argument that dualism is unnecessary to explain phenomenal consciousness. The word "consciousness" has a lot of baggage, which causes us to mislabel cognition as consciousness. [1] This is why I really like using terms like "qualia" or _phenomenal_ consciousness to make explicit what we're talking about.
I still don't like this new trend of dismissing the hard problem altogether. We really don't have an explanation of phenomenal consciousness—it might even require novel physics to explain! [2]
I'd also like to point out that, though this might seem like a semantic argument, it has meaningful consequences for how we approach science and ethics. [3] For example, if we are physicalists and accept that phenomenal consciousness is a property of the world, what does this tell us about other unobservable properties of the world science may be missing? (Recall that we only know about phenomenal consciousness through our own experience of it; we cannot observe it in others)
[1] https://write.ianwsperber.com/p/what-is-the-color-blue
[2] https://youtu.be/DI6Hu-DhQwE?si=RB3qkt6PZ62SVpx3&t=2493
[3] https://write.ianwsperber.com/p/morality-without-consciousne...