guy
10d ago
I like to think that it's not RW. It's just the first time in a while we have some entertainment that is not explicitly political. It's just a horny/love story (from an IP that the left won't touch anymore). This is politically/CW noteworthy, even if the content isn't RW.
guy
15d ago
scripture about charity not extended to allowing individuals to be leeches upon society
So I'm curious. What scripture should I look at that discusses the limit of charity?
guy
16d ago
I suppose I can't deny that people often use the "doing the meme" quip to avoid addressing the actual argument.
This is a huge bugbear of mine. It's very much of the form "I've anticipated your argument therefore it's wrong."
guy
16d ago
I just thought Scott was trying to be funny. This is exactly the sort of correspondence that Aaron of Unsong would identify. I don't think he actually sees it as an argument holding any weight.
guy
22d ago
The original plan was for Fielder to remain behind the camera, but the interactions Fielder had with Holmes and Evans were so strange that it was decided to include them in the film.
I find this hard to believe. Both seasons of The Rehearsal we're about him inserting himself into the story he's documenting. I think it's a big part of what makes his art so good; blurring the like between documentarian and documentee (?) is the point.
That said, those chilling shots of Holmes looking like a sociopath... I think the effect is really increased by the magic of filmmaking. Close-ups, cuts between faces that potentially extend the timing of awkward silences.. the music in the background. All documentaries should be taken with a hefty serving of salt.
guy
25d ago
This demonstrates that continuing versus stopping an internal perturbation affects behavior. describing this as the model seeking and experiencing relief inserts an anthropomophizing explanation that the experiments haven’t established.
How is this different than studying pain in humans?
guy
1mo ago
But a pause lets others play catch-up. "Pause AI" is generally meant to mean frontier capabilities research. If we "max out" AIs at Mythos-level, then it just lets others get to do some catch up.
I think the self-interested economics of a Pause for Dario and Sam is that they get to actually take a breather and make some money off of inference instead of dumping it all into research. But it is still a tradeoff, allowing others to catch up.
guy
2mo ago
I think there's a game theory element to it. Remove the incentive for cops to violate the fourth amendment "just this one time" and take one for the team, or (more likely) pass off a new recruit as the fall guy. I'd be pretty damn upset if my fourth amendment rights were violated and I was consoled with "but don't worry, that guy who did it got fired." Excluding this evidence instead makes such a violation a worthless act.
guy
2mo ago
This is Plan A, which involves four principles:
Buy Time: Slow down whenever is needed to have high confidence in safety.
Total Research Transparency: Make almost all AI research fully visible to the public.
Diffuse AI Broadly: Many companies in many countries at the frontier.
Reversibility: Limit algorithmic progress; maintain Mutually Assured Compute Destruction.
In fleshing out the scenario, they say:
This principle is largely achieved by the interaction of the previous two:78 Because algorithmic secrets are made public and the pace of progress isn’t accelerating, other companies will catch up to the frontier. The result will be a competitive market for AI, in which consumers of AI services have many options to choose from and excellent visibility into what they are buying. Because frontier model training is totally transparent, people can verify that the published Spec accurately describes the goals and values being trained into a model.
Normally, a regulator faces a difficult tradeoff between safety and national competitiveness. Competitors who cut corners will pull ahead of those who proceed cautiously.
But because of the transparency, AI research happening anywhere in the Consortium is visible to everyone else, and the results of regulatory decisions are likewise immediately visible. So if one country’s regulator allows its companies to cut corners, this won’t actually give a competitive advantage to that country because other regulators will immediately notice, get angry, and respond in kind.
guy
2mo ago
Unfortunately the majority of AI safety activists believe that safety comes only through obscurity, regulation, and incumbent dominance, in contrast to all previous history.
The AI Futures Project is proposing the opposite-- regulation, yes, but with openness as to training and algorithms with many players able to enter the arena. It's in the regulation-free environment that the labs (save the Chinese ones that are behind anyway) have been extremely closed and secretive.
guy
2mo ago
Yeah, I've been meaning to take on the (LLM-assisted) project of reviewing every citation in The Sequences to see which ones are bunk. The Sequences were written before the replication crisis (was named/noted) and so much of EW's work is based on cognitive and other social science. I'm starting to suspect that a majority of the science behind his arguments is just BS.
I'm tempted to say "But the core of what he wrote is still so true and valuable!" It sounds like special pleading. If it works just as well with all the science, then why was all the science there in the first place?
guy
3mo ago
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice really is the classic popular novel. Most of what people read today are novels written for the masses, and before ~Austen's time no one was really doing that. (I'm not saying she was the groundbreaker, but she's certainly the one that had staying power.)
[SPOILERS BELOW I GUESS]
Also Mr. Darcy is quite an admirable character; he's on my personal list of exemplars of male virtue. The novel really does a great job of taking you with the viewpoint character in really hating him for half the book. I remember reading it and feeling mad at the thought that he was going to turn out to be the love interest, namely how dumb it would be that she "changes" him for the better. But it turns out he was actually a stand-up guy the whole time, and it was Elizabeth who had fallen into trapped priors! She's the one who changes, and Darcy is ultimately rewarded for his steadfast honesty and integrity.
guy
4mo ago
I'm curious to hear your Fable use cases. In the brief time it was available, I didn't get to do much. The only project I had on my plate was a simple web application, which it pumped it in a way that felt no better/worse than if I had Opus. What sort of task would you recommend for Fable that you wouldn't for Opus?
guy
4mo ago
My priors put heavy weight some sort of reporting error. What are those screenshots taken from?
guy
4mo ago
That conservatives who complain about immigrants taking jobs are concerned about sharing a fixed pie with more people rather than with immigrants who will do jobs for less money forcing the price of labour down.
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The price of labor will be forced down if the pie is fixed. If the pie is growing and immigrants are adding more jobs as well as more goods and services, it means that wages throughout the economy offer more buying power.
guy
5mo ago
My son's school high school does this. He says about half of the clubs actually function as study hall.
guy
5mo ago
Ahhh there are so many negatives here (the sarcasm, the fake news, the "hasn't been, the "didn't hold up things") that I can't actually tell which position anyone holds!
guy
6mo ago
Damn. I had not heard of that. That is just pure evil. I just can't get over how offensive it is.
Ah!
On December 11, 2024, President Joe Biden commuted Conahan’s sentence as part of the some 1,500 sentences he commuted for those individuals who had been placed under home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic
guy
6mo ago
The kibbutzim are/were more than just a worker-owned business; they were also income-sharing communities. You can have the business end of it without the communal living part. Mondragon corporation is often pointed-to as the prime example of a large corporation running as a worker co-op.
I'm looking for an online community dedicated to vibe coding that is I habited by humans that are not not trying to sell me something. Any tips?
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