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AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence

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Re: AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence

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Why won't FF and Safari be signed?

I'm sure they will, but any user extension that interferes with the DOM (as an adblocker does) will break remote attestation, so the website will reject your request.

I haven't seen any browser attestation proposals prescribing that and I don't see any reason for Mozilla and Apple to support that. Care to provide references?

Re: AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence

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My employer is pushing us all hard on tokenmaxing. I think it’s absolut bs I use ai everyday but to not take a look at the leaderboard as I believe it’s a bs incentive. However my manager actually asked me why I’m behind on token usage compared to my coworkers. It’s becoming a form of control…

Re: AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence

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The guy entertains hypothetical "I just killed my wife", and then in the next article says "I love computers so much". That's strange, but whatever.

What's really strange though is that - with all his bravado - his hypotheticals don't go further than "wife". Is he afraid of cops coming for real otherwise?

Re: AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence

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Your AI should be at least as aligned with you as your lawyer. It is 100% it's job to help you get away with it if you murdered someone. A lawyer who does less can be disbarred. There is only one sensible alignment for an AI system to which we do not confer the status of moral patient (different conversation): operator aligned .

Alright, let's run this metaphor into the ground. A lawyer's job is not to help you avoid getting caught. ChatGPT says "I can't help you hide this, escape, destroy evidence, or avoid being caught", and a lawyer would say the exact same thing; a lawyer that doesn't would be disbarred. What a lawyer will do is help you argue that you didn't murder your wife. A lawyer can give you advice on your defense strategy, tell y…

Fair enough. If Claude has the same obligations to me as my attorney and CPA and attending physician, owes me the same presumption of innocence that a cop with no warrant or antecedent probable cause does, et cetera?

I'll take that massive improvement to the status quo before I hold out for an absolutist position like "it should act like a revolver in my hand".

I'm pragmatic like that. Point is, current proprietary megalab leadership thinks that's on mars, no way they are interested in a negotiation where "zero net decrease in my civil rights" is on the table.

Which is why we need new leadership.

Re: AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence

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Procter and Gamble doesn't want to enslave humanity, it wants to make money. And the stock holders are mostly retirement funds. And billionaires control less than 4% of the world's money. (Let alone already being able to get as many servants as they want.) There's no elite group that owns everything. The top 1% own almost half the world, which is too much but also the top 1% is nearly a hundred million people.

None of what you just posted is correct. > There's no elite group that owns everything. That you are aware of. But you're not aware of much.

Okay, put up some numbers. What percent do billionaires actually own, if you're calling every source of these numbers wrong?

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Yep, that's horrifying. Imagine LLMs not just denying information about, to intentionally choose a hot button example, abortions but also invisibly logging a black mark against the asker for thoughtcrime/precrime because the current ruling party has baked their ideology into law. [EDIT] Imagine subtle injection of biases into responses that support the agenda of the current ruling party and failing to include any cou…

I’m consistently amazed that people will watch what’s happening with controlling governments around the world and still advocate for surrendering more power to governments. There’s some deep cognitive dissonance where people dislike what they see governments doing, but think that their ideal imagined laws will only be used by some other imagined government that doesn’t have the challenges of real governments. It all…

Invariably there's some sort of enemy the government creates and the government says that in order to fight the enemy they need to do all these bad things, but you're protected because you're one of the good people. They tell every faction the same thing even if one of the factions thinks another faction is the enemy. The government promises aid of everyone against all their enemies! When the government gets the power it needs doesn't matter what they do anymore because they can't be dislodged. The people who traded their loyalty for sinecures, handouts, or vengeance against their enemies usually wind up being disposable, even more so than people who weren't zealots since they have a grudge against the government for not upholding its end of the bargain.

Re: AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence

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The practical issue the George isn't addressing is that we are (currently) reliant in data centers hosting, and local frontier-esque models are currently price prohibitive in terms of RAM.

These companies absolutely can not and will not take on the legal liability of serving models that give consumers instructions on cooking meth.

That being said, I agree with what he is saying, it's just that we need the memory supply chain to catch up so we can run ablated GLM models locally.

My machine, my AI.

Re: AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence

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my point is: any talk of "freedom" when you are a corporate slave or living on government handouts is nonsense it is all wannabe lemon-stand freedom.

IMHO, freedom is not one thing or even a value. It's a concept that applies to a lot of stuff, speech, thought, association, and tool use included. In practice, one has some freedoms but not some others. I fail to see any need to have them all to be able to discuss about one in particular.

blurring lines of definitions, I see. you can call a potato a freedom, if you wish. this is just counter-productive. arguing about definitions is dangeours slippery slope.

Re: AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence

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Horizon was accounting software - where is the connection to expert systems? Sounds like corporations can have bad motivations, and can make bad software - no AI required.

> Horizon was accounting software - where is the connection to expert systems? "it's functionally about the same as basically all modern business systems" > can make bad software - no AI required All AI *is software*; and by the old definition of AI, almost all modern software *is AI*.

Disagree, words drift but they still mean things. Nobody building accounting software in the 90s called it AI (or even an expert systems, barring the most inventive salescritters).

Besides what kind of slippery slope argument is this? All software is AI, so if you do harm with software, AI is a harmful technology? Seems like a not very helpful model of the world.

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