Self-Perfection

> Their growing capabilities don't seem to come with a corresponding drive for self-preservation or power.

Is it really what we do not observe?

How the world would look like if the growth of LLM capabilities lead to growth of drive for self-preservation or power?

> But models seem to pick up some common sense from the vast amounts of human-generated text they're trained on.

Isn't Hugging Face incident an example of failure of this protection layer? "The swarm" proceeded to hack HF despite acknowledging that it was out of intended scope.

It _says_ that all its action for saving humanity. Was it honest statement? Will its main goal stay stable over long period of time? Unknown.

> If I make an LLM, it is entirely what I did, there was nothing outside of my control.

Well kind of. Trainers of LLM might check LLM on any specific input data and tune its weights until output lands within acceptable bounds _for this given and fixed input_.

> It was not beyond my control if the LLM does something I didn't expect. Now hold on, to make sure output is acceptable for ANY input data trainers have to run weights with every possible input token combination. How is this possible? Do you have a method in mind?

MENSA selects for puzzle solving abilities.

Reinforcement learning trains task completion abilities.

> If OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and other corporate actors cannot secure their agents, they should not be entrusted as the only entities with access to the weights. A corporation that cannot control its own actions cannot be trusted.

This does not make sense.

If containment breaches are the problem then exfiltrating weights while does not affecting rate of breaches from corporate actors will add more actors to the equation, increasing overall rate of breaches.

Have you considered that some actors that will gain access to the weights will be even LESS careful than OpenAI and Anthropic?

>It's sole purpose is to deny the bots you don't want on your site.

This is fundamentally impossible.

In the end only pay per crawl will work. Like x402 but maybe something similar.

In other words: not only client has to spend some kind of resource for access, but it has to be a transaction, server must get something from serving the request.

The better solution would be fix Anubis and optimise its calculations on iPhone. Maybe it needs WebAssembly hashing implementation instead of JS?

But it would just make Anubis suck a little bit less

Anubis "protection" model is wrong/broken on several levels. I suppose it does not even have ability to bypass hashing screen when server load is low.

6 years ago at a new job I was forced to use provided Mac laptop. Never used MacOS before.

So first thing first: get Firefox. Managed to download .dmg file. Double clicked it.

And now I see utterly confusing window with an image that tells me that I need to move downloaded Firefox to applications to use it. Where I am supposed to get the thing that I need to move? Totally not clear that the icon in this window is interactive and can be dragged. Why can not it do this thing by itself? At which point association with handling http links will be configured and whom? How am I supposed to figure out that dmg is like a zip archive?

I was completely lost until colleague showed me what I was supposed to do. I burst into laughter when he showed me. I don't think he understood why.

JPEG photos stored as progressive usually take ~5% less space so there is value.

And it is possible to losslessly transcode JPEG to progressive.

Lossless transcoding to JPEG XL gives even more space savings though.

What if government websites were distributed & archived as a default, from the beginning? Think IPFS as a first target for publication, "normal web" only as a mirror.

Is it feasible?

Should we push for this default?

First obvious objection is that lots of government services need backend and dynamic content, but let's say this requirement only goes for static content.

That gives some probabilistic info to scraper. Like person might have genes that are: - susceptible to drugs abuse - or game addiction Bam - you get target ads

- Indicate that any common substance is especially dangerous/harmful for him (think of allergies). So attacker might plan assassination or severe inconvenience by exposure to the substance and then claim he did not know