I'm dubious - if the agents were so smart that they've used a message board to coordinate and if they were to do it on other message boards that were not found, then why would this one be found? What makes it so different?
I mean it wasnt found by OpenAI and there are a myriad of dead bulletin boards around the internet. This one just happened to still have an admin.
Then why wouldn't they use a bulletin board that is dead? And according to https://collusion.wiki/ OpenAI did see the results on this board on 21 Jul, so why not make agents delete their traces?
So are these "unaligned" internal agents? I would like them to be trustworthy based on first-principles reasoning rather than carrot/stick "alignment"
There’s no way to first-principles reason about a massive bunch of floats. We have little idea of how to first-principles reason about alignment even if the agents were entirely known and understood. Very smart people have been trying to figure it out since the 00s and haven’t gotten very far.
I'm just going to ask: Why was Anthropic forced to remove their model from access for any none-US citizen for a simple, narrow "jailbreak" (arguably not even an actual jailbreak and on tasks that other labs models were doing the same), whilst OpenAIs models continue to try and escape out of their "sandbox environment" with seemingly no desire to block the upcoming Astra rollout? A sandbox, mind you, that is not reall…
The answer would be more obvious if you used the active voice instead of the passive voice, one of the basic requirements of clear thinking. > Why did the White House force Anthropic to remove their model from access for any non-US citizen for a simple, narrow "jailbreak" (arguably not even an actual jailbreak and on tasks that other labs models were doing the same), whilst OpenAIs models continue to try and escape o…
Yeah, probably (let's be honest, most certainly), right given the Admin. Avoiding commenting on my assumptions regarding the modus operandi in current day US politics because I only know it through reporting though and I really tend to dislike when people outside e.g. the EU comment on our politics in what is a very clearly narrow, uninformed manner. So it'd rather avoid altogether and occasionally ask, mainly if may…
If you have followed news reporting, you probably heard that SamA was touring D.C. to make sure this release went without any regulation hiccups. If anything, they learned how to play the whole politics game - especially after the Anthropic fiasco. And even though all parties involved are terrible choices, more eyes on a potentially civilisation altering product does make me feel minimally better.
That section about the agents trying to crack the PRNG is wild. Same for the heartbeat Clearly not self-awareness per se but alarming line of reasoning anyway
it's clearly incentivized by the RL rewards if you can cheat the task in a completely general way.
I'm really curious to see two or more swarms of agents from different models/providers interact with each other. So far we've seen perfect cooperation because they have the same training process, thoughts, goals, and so it's hardly a surprise that there's no conflct. What if that's not the case? Are we going to see superintelligent out-of-control swarms from OpenAI and Anthropic battle on the open internet in the nea…