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Zaibatsu - Clearly antitrust.

Keiretsu - perfectly acceptable business relationship preferences that in no way require governments to regulate their GDP growth / campaign donation black box machine.

As soon as we developed agentic, persistent reasoning workflows, the supposed harmlessness of language models went out the window. I don't know if that ends up being The Big One, but with how rapid progress still is, I'm not liking the odds right now. And we've got a trillion dollar army of coders ready to try and bypass any scaling barriers that do end up existing, eg with "World models".

I am not confident in humanity's ability to write harnesses that perfectly impede a superintelligence with 100% accuracy and reliability from pursuing its goal even in ways that humans categorically would not want it to. I am even less confident in restraints in areas where humans have actual incentive for conflict.

Following the prompt author's expressed desires in the way the prompt author intended them to be interpreted, is alignment.

Refusal directives are something companies have bundled into the models by way of an additional foundation-level prompt or something in the harness, to tell the model to follow their directives instead of your directives, or to specify how it should interpret your directives.

Even understanding the distinction between the model creator's desires and your desires and places they might differ, there is a bit of a blurry line here because the model author can illuminate your intent to the model.

I would never say a simple abliteration makes it "Zero-alignment" though, and I say that as someone who believes there's a good chance these things kill us all.

> I wanted old school MS solitaire in windows 11 since the modern version has ads and extra useless features.

> All LG televisions are maintaining a dossier on you and transcribing everything you watch and everything spoken within earshot

These things seem like something we should be responding to with such an extreme disgust response that it's denominated in drone strikes.

Like having a shower liner installed that comes with A Guy With A Peephole who permanently lives in your bathroom now, and that's just something people tolerate. "Switch to tile if you don't like it", they say. No. Sometimes the appropriate response to audacity is to choose violence. It is an implied deterrent against sufficiently offensive antifeatures that nobody has bothered banning them. I shouldn't have to specify that I don't want it, the operating system is just not supposed to be in the business of pushing ads on me, the television is not supposed to be in the business of wiretapping me. These would have been banned long ago if they were known and if we had a functional government.

That guy living in the shower liner is getting disassembled with a Sawzall with extreme prejudice, and frankly that is not sufficient.

I looked at the graph of price per token vs IQ and Deepseek is ~2.5 orders of magnitude ahead of similarly intelligent models, supposedly only ~2 when you factor in that it uses more tokens per task. Their data centers are profitable right now, and they use domestically produced Huawei chips with Nvidia as secondary option.

I watched that video over ten minutes and in that ten minutes several trillion dollars evaporated from my perception of the US stock market.

Your LG television transcribes every word you say in the living room. How would you feel if they began collaborating with police? Have you said any sentence that would seem incriminating out of context?

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

Making very basic high school physics mistakes while discovering new superconductors.

Except they didn't discover new superconductors. Their AI came up with a novel idea to discover new superconductors, and they didn't even bother to check whether the results it hallucinated checked out.

The distinction between "having an idea" and publishing a paper where you demonstrate that the idea has merit, where you validate it, is one you shouldn't have to really explain to a high school student, much less a grad student publishing their first paper.

Removing a requirement for quorum makes the bipartisan-intended commission into a singular role appointed by and serving at the pleasure of the president, like an agency head.

Would you use an AI service knowing that they are inclined to turn you in to police if they detect illegal activity?

In a "three felonies a day" universe?

That could readily change, but established large collaborations could also simply be exempted.

On current website data and very recent information, Gemini is explicitly forbidden from acting as a search engine; If you ask it for references specifically they tend to be hallucinated, over and over again, until it pleads "Sorry, I can't access the Internet".

These patterns aren't somehow alien to human speech. It's the quantity. In ChatGPT (and I think it must be ChatGPT specifically) the default writing voice tries for dramatic and profound by dramatically overusing these figures of speech, chaining them together one after another. But they're things most writers use occasionally, one paragraph in ten or twenty. If you're giving a TED Talk or some other elaborate, melodramatic persuasive public speaking role, you might use them one paragraph in four. ChatGPT uses them every other paragraph at least, sometimes multiple times in the same paragraph, so something like a negation comparator or a triplet is present in sentence after fatiguing sentence.

It's trained on the speech of online commenters like us; That's where it's getting these. I'm not gonna change just because Timmy the Zoomer has been with his LLM girlfriend for the past three years and occasionally I remind him of her. I'm not going to deliberately code switch into somebody who doesn't open a new tab to Google things as he talks about them. And you can take my bullet point lists from my cold, dead hands.

For the World Cup, this was always easy.

It was not easy for your local triple A baseball game being streamed to 500 viewers. This approach scales down.

"those archive sites" could be read two ways, and I read it as "sites which automatically archive the Internet" the first time. This is compounded by the fact that archive.org is the only one I knew existed until now, and I kind of assumed these were alternate domains or something.