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> Are you asking if I can scare myself with a made-up hypothetical that overwhelms reason with emotion? No. I am asking if you are able to articulate at least one example of the “v…

I can work with that analogy! You could, and yet you don’t. OpenAI’s model could, and did. If every human, given knowledge of Newtonian mechanics, went around blowing up bridges, y…

I wonder if you also believe that everyone should have nuclear weapons? And if not, why not? The main argument I can see against it is that nuclear weapons are “purely offensive”, …

I can give many examples of where I think they’ve been vindicated. But actually, the real question is: what would suffice to convince you ? Can you come up with a scenario that is …

With an AI model and what army?

I am truly at a loss to communicate with someone who genuinely believes that knowing Newtonian physics and being able to hack into any target at will are the same thing.

I think it’s possible to observe something and be sure that it’s true in aggregate without being able to accuse any one individual of it. I propose that in those cases, bringing it…

That is a true statement. Here is another one: Some people like to talk about “some people” snidely, instead of just coming out and saying “GP is bloodthirsty and gets a little thr…

Indeed. I can’t find it, but I swear I knew after reading the announcement, without opening the model card. It stood out because it was so weird. Maybe they changed it before the f…

It was in the announcement, too. I’m 99% sure they edited it after they changed their mind, because I knew about it from reading that, and never opened the model card.

They didn’t get caught, they explicitly said they would do that in the announcement. I think it was both bad and a weird idea, but it certainly wasn’t sneaky.

Carlin didn’t say it was silly, he said it didn’t matter. Religion, communism, fascism were all world-defining ideas, and they very much mattered to those who fought for them and a…

People the world over: (die for the right to vote) One comedian: LOL they only killed them to make you think it was valuable. The Internet: (sagely) What a wise assessment by a wis…

Agreed. My point was to question the use of “just“ to obscure an incredibly complicated process, which has been shown repeatedly to rely on generalizations that are indistinguishab…

Let me make this clear: The United States predates you, and will almost certainly outlive you. You, an individual with a microscopic lifespan and negligible influence in the grand …

Nothing about an LLM is “just”. In what precise sense do you mean it is probabilistic?

As expected by the exponential. The Wharton study was predicting when the exponential would turn into a sigmoid.

…yeah, that’s where you see the exponential?

Ah, I misread the post he was replying to.

What did you think it was pronounced as?

I wouldn’t either if I’d missed the previous word, “reporting”.

> How do you know? If you have access you are not unbiased, otherwise you cannot know by definition. The platonic ideal of how to dismiss any argument by anyone about anything.

> If these claims were indeed serious, they would submit it for independent analysis somewhere. They have. 40 different companies that have all committed resources to patching thei…

An interesting thing in AI history. For human history, it’s epochal.

The term of art for losing politically is “losing”.