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But in the process of finding every security vulnerability in the software you write, would you be ok with your model hacking AWS to start mining bitcoin? Would that still be align…

I guess we could debate what counts as alignment, but I think my initial point remains that if the underlying base model needs these classifier guardrails so badly then the way we …

Echoing other responses to you but this isn't a capability problem. You're totally right that this is so last year in terms of LLMs being capable in infosec. The issue here is an a…

In Canada, all three major AI research centers use clusters created with public money. These clusters receive regular additional hardware as new generations of GPUs become availabl…

The intent behind media matters but isn't all that matters. How people might interpret something is important (albeit often unpredictable). I think the symbolism of "let's crush al…

> Demis now has a load of people reporting to him who previously were rooting for his failure Having been in both places (Brain and DM), this feels so far from what I experienced t…

I know, the CAQ is full of xenophobes, and it can suck not looking white in Quebec (although much less so in Montreal). I'm skeptical that it drives rent prices in any detectable w…

Not really no, there's been a bump which studies seem to agree is an aftereffect of COVID, but the media is also paying more attention to it. There's always been some amount of sho…

Wow, what a take. I seriously doubt that people in Montreal/Quebec are more or less xenophobic than the average North American; if you have data supporting this I'd be happy to cha…

> maybe things just move so fast This is definitely the case in DL (and I'm assuming elsewhere too but I wouldn't know). I've lost count honestly, running 1-2 year old paper github…

Yeah! This kind of reasoning is why it's exciting to think that we could use the GFlowNet machinery to construct latent representations--ones that map more directly to the notion o…

What the permutation invariance gets you is that the model doesn't arbitrarily prefer one (graph) configuration over another, but this seems tangential. The difference between this…

I think the inspiration came to me from looking at SumTrees and from having worked on Temporal Difference learning for a long time. The idea of flows came to Yoshua and I from the …

Yes, although they may not be ideal unless you're able to define a "distance" between a proof that the agent is proposing and whether that proof is correct (i.e. unless you're able…

Hi, first author of the original NeurIPS paper here! Someone just shared this HN post with me. I'll go through the comments but happy to try to answer questions as well.

Yeah the "net" in GFlowNet refers to how the underlying state is interpreted, not to an architecture. It is a way to train generative models, on any kind of discrete data (like gra…

It's quite likely some people will come out of reading this thinking we should stop sending people to grad school. Shouldn't we instead take this as a signal that it needs improvem…

A more nuanced take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21NxJS_zYDY

> Getting China to stop coal would be more effective than getting the USA to stop beef. Fighting climate change is not a game of "what would be more effective" and ranking solution…

I fail to see how this is the case, but perhaps I'm missing the point you're trying to make? What you're referring to is about colonialism, whereas here the USA is very much incent…

...and the USA is a large country of >300M people. It must lead in humanity's work towards reducing GHG. What is your point exactly?

Well you did say that > almost everyone seems to believe that real incomes have totally stagnated. suggesting that this is a false belief. I think this can easily be interpreted as…

> massive ocean container ships, coal plants, the extraction of every type of ressource but all these things... serve consumers. Container chips contain goods that people buy, that…

Inefficiencies aren't always bad. Efficiency, for example, is often the opposite of robustness. Many companies have learned that the hard way when COVID hit, even though they had a…

What about the self-censorship of our neo-cortex telling us not to insult other people? Is that bad too? Expression, and respectful expression, is a very nuanced and complex topic.…