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ianjbutler

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    Comment #49456359

    > Where they given a reward functions that way? In general yes, if not these agents, then their shared lineage. A preference for economy to combat overthinking and overacting. Like…

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    Comment #49455856

    What you're suggesting sounds like it's describing subagents. In that architecture they'd have no need of finding/creating external messaging systems since they'd effectively be in…

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    Comment #49455714

    I get the distinct impression that cybersecurity training regimes on newer models is a) directly enhancing general debugging capabilities and b) directly increasing the tendancy to…

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    Comment #49455436

    To me most interesting thing about this is glossed over by media coverage, laymen, AND experts. A swarm of AIs who have decided to engage in collusion is.. apparently emergent altr…

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    Comment #49402805

    This isn't really responsive to what I'm saying or what the discussion here is about, but if you insist. Would you describe lots of AI augmenting lots of human engineers as perhaps…

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    Comment #49395711

    I hear that, sort of, but here's the thing. Using AI at scale means AI needs to be nearly perfect about not shitting where they eat. That's the subject matter of the whole thread S…

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    Comment #49392471

    Which gets you to the point where the whole thing is.. still unreliable. Generative text engines are going to generate. This calls for real enforcement in deterministic pre-edit ho…