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mofeien

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    Comment #49225720

    From TFA: It did succeed in the "accidentally impossible" task, but not at all in the way the problem-setters intended, and rather... at all costs?! And it wouldn't really matter w…

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    Comment #49225651

    I don't think air gapping will work: even human security researchers recovered a 378-bit key from a Samsung Galaxy S8 through a power LED of a speaker two devices away. And accessi…

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    Comment #49160856

    To what kind of goal that an ASI might decide to pursue would "a quarter billion happy, healthy, free people" be the most efficient solution to?

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    Comment #49090666

    That's an application of the "Tragedy of the commons": One person stopping to push the frontier just means that this person will lose their job, the frontier will be pushed by the …

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    Comment #49090276

    It means that they request the structures needed to navigate the event horizon of recursive self improvement be put into place. Probably: International agreements, verifiability of…

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    Comment #49032992

    Scoring well on the first clears the background knowledge for practical work. The second test from the quote above was about synthesizing pathogens and it synthesized plasmids for …

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    Comment #49032970

    Transcript, four prompts: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a60b2eb-0b64-83ee-9c76-7931ca1de0...

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    Comment #49032718

    From the Fable 5 System card: > Results > On the VCT multimodal virology evaluation, Mythos 5 scored 0.56, well above the expert baseline of 0.221 and nearly matching that of Mytho…

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    Comment #48555681

    https://status.claude.com/ You can also just subscribe here for updates on fable 5 status

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    Comment #48539925

    The top comment in the very discussion you linked on that AISLE blog has a strong rebuttal to that blog post...

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    Comment #48402545

    I would assume that shortly after, the solar system will be hyper optimized as well, then the milky way, then the local cluster, and so on. Everything will be close to optimal afte…

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    Comment #48402495

    Or agree on finding ways to promote peaceful use of nuclear energy. This has been done, there are thousands of people working on it around the globe and 180+ member states of the I…

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    Comment #48402426

    The regulation that is being argued for here is against pushing the frontier. Entering the market with say a new speech to text model is not subject to such regulation. What's need…

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    Comment #48402302

    > If it were possible to effectively slow the development of this technology to give ourselves more time to deal with its immense implications, we think that would likely be a good…

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    Comment #48375109

    Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic said the following at an Oxford lecture last week ([0], at around 10 and 12 mins): "It's a technology that we do not fully understand because it…

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    Comment #48313464

    Not all training data is human generated, and it's also not clear that being ridiculously good at interpolating between data points (whatever that means) will not lead to superhuma…

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    Comment #48072505

    - Its goal: X - (Logic) => its subgoal: Not be turned off because that's a prerequisite to be able to do X - (Logic) => Eliminate humans with their opaque and somewhat unpredictabl…

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    Comment #48020491

    The goal as stated on the extension page is to improve the readability of texts by replacing :, *, _ forms. So some customizability to the user's wishes would be quite nice. My cal…

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    Comment #48020363

    To prevent accusations of "masculinism" or sexism and to have a stronger case on having the goal to improve readability the add-on could include an option (or even make it default)…

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    Comment #47958868

    There was no nuclear weapon used in warfare anymore since WW II. I think the regulation and oversight worked incredibly well over the past 70-80 years, despite the game-theoretic c…

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    Comment #47950821

    Given that his reason for saying GPT-2 was too dangerous to release was that the world needed more time to prepare for the effects of this technology, and given that the following …

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    Comment #47950745

    "The race to build smarter-than-human AI is a race with no winners." And specifically about the point on China, several people in power in China have also expressed the need to reg…

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    Comment #47919132

    That highlights how important ceiling construction regulations are. I would assume that right now your breakfast sandwich is more highly regulated than LLMs. And these are the thin…

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    Comment #47737321

    These results were based on "a trivial snippet from the OWASP benchmark". In the section "caveats and limitations" they state that sonnet 4.6 and opus 4.6 now pass. And they decide…