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That’s interesting - how do they define that? Surely they don’t publish raw rgb?

This is exactly what I’m doing expressed much more succinctly than I could have done myself. Thanks!

I’m really happy to see this take. It’s not the first time but it’s not said often enough. I once had the thought that anything AI can do really well is probably something that should not be being done at all. That’s an overly broad statement but I think there’s some truth in it. The grand challenge of software engineering is to find beautifully elegant and precise ways to express what we want the computer to do for us. If we can find them, it will be better to express ourselves in those ways than to prompt an AI than do it for us, much in the same way that a blog written by an LLM is not worth reading.

DAG is directed acyclic graph. A bit like a tree where branches are allowed to merge but there are no cycles.

Wait, lucid dreamers need tells to know where they are?!?

The link is broken - could you repost please?

There's a better way but it requires a very large space like a big empty parking lot.

...and that's it! Turns out the hard part is not riding a bike but riding a bike in a straight line. Once you've got the hang of riding wherever the bike seems to want to go, you can gradually learn to get it under control. Surprisingly easy!

Came to the comments looking for this. The term alignment-faking implies that the AI has a “real” position. What does that even mean? I feel similarly about the term hallucination. All it does is hallucinate!

I think Alan Kay said it best - what we’ve done with these things is hacked our own language processing. Their behaviour has enough in common with something they are not, we can’t tell the difference.

Any recommendations for thinkers writing good analysis on the implications of superintelligence for society? Especially interested in positive takes that are well thought through. Are there any?

Ideally voices that don’t have a vested interest.

For example, give a superintelligence some money, tell it to start a company. Surely it’s going to quickly understand it needs to manipulate people to get them to do the things it wants, in the same way a kindergarten teacher has to “manipulate” the kids sometimes. Personally I can’t see how we’re not going to find ourselves in a power struggle with these things.

Does that make me an AI doomer party pooper? So far I haven’t found a coherent optimistic analysis. Just lots of very superficial “it will solve hard problems for us! Cure disease!”

It certainly could be that I haven’t looked hard enough. That’s why I’m asking.

Off topic but if I may. The way people use percentages to express multiples is confusing. A doubling is a 100% increase. So a 200% increase is 3x, and so on. Then at some point we forget about the +1 and 1000% is "10 times the sum it previously paid for software licenses". Just a pet peeve I guess : )

I thought I could only see photons that hit my retina :)

> Why can’t your protocol just be valid JavaScript too?

It is.