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Comment · 4 days ago
If the candidates were better, then <90% would end their journeys at the clinical trials. Though that's not to say that they've provided any real evidence that their candidates actually are better yet
Comment · 1 month ago
https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-u... happened very recently, and that seems like it might be the reason they halted everything.
Comment · 1 month ago
Ideally you'd put it in an orbit that wouldn't shadow earth, since if it goes in front of earth in part of the orbit then it'll go behind earth (and be in shadow) for part of the orbit. They mention they'd want it in a dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbit, which would be in sunlight all the time and would never shadow the earth.
Comment · 1 month ago
Just make it always think it's being tested, and problem solved.
Comment · 1 month ago
You can back-propagate through the CoT iterations or recurrent layers, same as you can back-propagate through normal intermediate layers.
Comment · 1 month ago
Generally people encrypt with both post-quantum crypto and regular crypto in series to prevent that from being a problem.
Comment · 1 month ago
Someone studied this (among other thigns): https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html . Pelicans on bikes always face right in this test, but other animals on other transportation methods sometimes face left.
Comment · 2 months ago
Destroying the original makes it easier to justify that scanning the books is fair use, because you haven't increased the number of copies. See page 16 of https://copyrightalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Bar... : "This use was even more clearly transformative than those in Texaco, Google, and Sony Betamax (where the number of copies went up by at least one)"
Comment · 2 months ago
AI companies aren't fabbing processors. They're buying capacity at fabs to make their own designs. To make more RAM, they'd need to invest in making more DRAM fabs, which is a slow process.
Comment · 3 months ago
Intent often matters in the law (aside from certain laws with strict liability). You intentionally drive your car into someone you hate and kill them => murder, go straight to jail. You're driving along normally and someone who's chasing their pet cat suddenly runs into traffic and you hit them => no charges. Sometimes you can be charged with negligence for not taking enough care to prevent something, but then you have to deal with the tricky question of how much care is enough.

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