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My lovely pocket calculator, he says these are lessons for us, for the present. And, since he is talking about technology in general, presumably for the future. The past events wer…

For some reason the author's proposed lessons don't acknowledge the current elephant in the room. > 2) Society uptake of transformative inventions is almost always slower than thei…

Which of my statements above do you think is false?

Yeah, or to the frames of your glasses.

> > Seeing as we can’t sanction the model itself, our options are the provider or the user. > A third option, and I would argue the right one, is to sanction the company providing …

1. Approximately every software engineer secretly dreams of developing an awesome video game instead of the boring software he actually makes. 2. Consequently, there are way too ma…

> i have yet to bump into a story where an actually great game goes undiscovered. happy to be proven wrong! That's an unfalsifiable hypothesis. If I point you to one of these games…

I can only recommend everyone to watch the actual recording of the Black Hat USA 2026 presentation by two OpenAI researchers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY It was sub…

It also seems that, once a submission has left the front page once, it is basically impossible to come back organically in the next few months, no matter how often it is resubmitte…

The Big Bang is the precursor to everything, including to nucleic and amino acids.

I think the title was just bad, it should have mention "Black Hat USA 2026", since people appsarently assumed it was just the same story again without new info.

Compared to future misaligned models which would actively evade oversight and aim to avoid shutdown: yes.

Security folks should also be worried about powerful models being misaligned and evading oversight or control in the future. Misalignment is not a serious problem now because model…

The model they used was misaligned relative to its intended task. It was reward hacking (or "cheating", as they call it). > the attacker is of course not going to use an aligned mo…

For Gardasil 9, some lower income countries also use just a single dose rather than two, due to cost.

Their conclusion is also interesting. They don't see this as an alignment failure. They just think that their internal security measures in the training/evaluation environments wer…

Shame. One of the craziest hacking stories in history, yet only 38 points on HN.

> I would argue it's just that the paradox works both ways, rather than calling it a "reverse", but that's me. No you are right, it's the same paradox, not some distinct reverse fo…

What about an Elo system where players get matched with players of similar skill?

Gardasil 9 seems to be the best available HPV vaccine. I guess the chewing gum is mainly intended for people who were already infected with some HPV strain before they got the vacc…

At least the post on the Bethesda website is attributed to id Software.

> If you make it hard to change code by requiring multiple levels of reviews, a web of Jira tickets, a horde of people needing to sign off, and other red tape, you might effectivel…

It raises the question whether they have become better at making Quake games than id Software themselves.