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The company they hacked is an AI company. There is a certain amount of convergent interest here.

The agents you get to use are the agents that "behaved well".

As AIs become more capable, the level of competence required to avoid disaster likewise goes up over time.

Yes, it's a balancing act. It should be noted that abusers also tend to be very good at painting people dangerous to them as abusers, so it's difficult to start with. Generally spe…

Yeah! And now the mod has fixed input events, I can actually have a proper configuration GUI for this, and I could I suppose write a GUI toolkit for the nth time, but it kind of fe…

That's fair, I think I read something into your comment that wasn't really in there... Personally speaking, the feeling of "getting the thing and then having the thing" - the perso…

Iirc it lost to diffusion models because it was extremely hard to train. Due to the two adversarial networks it was very prone to mode collapse, ie. the generator running ahead of …

Sure. I do agree that AI is a problem in this sense: programmer skill as a hiring differentiator is becoming a lot less legible these days. It just feels personally odd to be the r…

As a mod you have to delete harmful things. I think the spread of Roko's is entirely due to its own memetic strength as an idea, and the Streisand effect has very little to do with…

> I’m not sure how people get joy out of constantly vibe coding new projects. What? It's the simplest thing in the world. You get the product. Isn't that the point of all programmi…

Personally I think I'm a 1-4 type, and I enjoy 2 but 3 is mostly annoying. LLMs are good at 3 and 3 is the worst part of programming. I don't think that's "manager type". 2 is also…

Through no fault of our own, I should note. We're basically permanently associated with something Roko decided to post one day. We did not spread or popularize it; quite the opposi…

API inference is probably not subsidized. Coding plans absolutely are.

You can play games with secret elections. You can play much much worse and much more common games with open elections. To be honest, they should prove that only employees voted and…

Note that I know nothing about the topic but the article, but the article says: > [W]e believe a secret-ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board is the appro…

And that GANs haven't been relevant in image generation since 2021.

If their numbers are real and hold up at scale, every image model trained before this is now obsolete.

For context: Logical Induction https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03543 Sadly the line of research seems to have been abandoned. Kind of understandable with the ascent of LLMs: there is no…

I half-disagree: this is exactly the kind of analytic truth humans are usually interested in. "Truth" as perceived by humans is based on a massive system of prefiltering, narrowing…

Yeah from a perspective of grouping it definitely belongs in the SB/SV/QQ list. From a perspective of should I link unsuspecting people to a site with a SFW section that can be des…

I mean I didn't want to link the pornfic site lol. I didn't link asstr either.

This is the most offensively-themed serious site I have ever seen.

https://fanfiction.net/ https://forums.spacebattles.com/ https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/ https://questden.org/ and of course usenet before it. the internet was always built …

What they should really do is make the decryption key backupable. Then you can keep it at home, and you can genuinely say that you don't remember it because it's like 128 digits. A…