it’s a shame to see someone like @NateSilver538 does not understand a basic, fundamental technical distinction. (@tristanharris and Kevin Roose missed it the other day, too.) pure LLMs were (very roughly and certainly not exactly) like stochastic parrots. harnesses, tools, code interpreters heralded the spread of neurosymbolic AI. the new systems are hybrids; they work differently. the somewhat weak metaphor is much weaker with them. but the fact that they are less like stochastic parrots doesn’t mean the original systems weren’t, nor that pure scaling worked. it means that neurosymbolic AI was an important next step. this still doesn’t mean we have AGI; most of the progress works best in verifiable domains; truly reliable general intelligence has certainly not yet arrived. (my 2020 article Next Decade in AI foresaw all of this, and what’s still missing, including world models, which i called cognitive models there.)

No, "anthropomorphizing" is a technical problem, about how AI works, not something like woke language policing. We say it's wrong because it's "technically" wrong not "morally" wrong. If you fail to set the brakes when parking on a hill, and your car then rolls down the hill, you don't claim that the car "decided to drive away on its own". Such anthropomorphizing distorts what really happened -- that you failed to set the brakes. The same applies to AI. When you "anthropomorphize" the AI you fail at understanding what actually happened.

It remains a major asymmetry that communists can openly argue for mass enslavement, but patriots cannot advocate for self-defense. Might be a week or more before @LPNH is back

Are you fucking kidding me? @elonmusk this account needs to be reinstated immediately, all he did was expose visa abuse through the proper channels with extremely diligent investigations. How many times are good accounts WHO DID NOTHING WRONG going to be banned on this website because of the indian visa fraud lobby?

Old rule (in smug Bill Maher voice): When a Palestinian kills a uniformed Israeli soldier enforcing a military occupation, it is terrorism When a uniformed Israeli soldier bombs a Palestinian refugee camp with 2000 lb bombs, Israel has the right to defend itself

Civilization is built upon the ability of parents to give their children a better life. That is why people bother to work hard at all. If you try to take that away, whether under the guise of “meritocracy” or “communism” or “social justice”, you are an enemy of civilization.

55 MILLION VISA HOLDERS?! There are 343 million people in the USA. That means 1 in 6 are on a foreign visa. ONE IN SIX! Can’t find a home? Can’t find a job? Traffic always jammed? Everything overcrowded and unaffordable? ONE IN SIX PEOPLE HERE ARE ON A FOREIGN VISA!!!

You already declared yourself an enemy to Whites. This is why I loathe people like you. You're cowardly. I'm Comanche. When the Whites entered our hunting territory and tried to settle it, we fought them and drove them back for almost a century. We warred with them. There was no posing as a friend, or impersonating a White person and trying to undermine them from within. We fought them openly, in the way of men. Then, when the White won, we had peace, and that was the end of it. Your kind cannot do that. You lie and lie and lie and cheat and lie and one day you're angry and you declare war and then the next you mewl and cry like a woman that you're not being included in the category that you just declared emnity for. I laugh at you. I scorn you. I declare you weaker than a woman. You bring shame upon all those of your blood and your name I will not say aloud without spitting.

I see no good coming from anthropomorphizing LLM behavior. LLMs do not reason. They do not decide, or collaborate, or attack. They do not make decisions. They do not weigh or evaluate. They are incapable of judgment. They do not think. Agents are programs in which a predictive model uses input text to generate the text that would naturally follow that input. That model sits in a loop (a program written by a human being) that parses the output text and does something that touches the internet based on the results. That same program usually takes any (text) responses that are returned from the internet and feeds them back into the input at the top of the loop. If that agent/program does not access the internet, the outside world is not impacted. All the bad behavior we've been reading about is entirely caused by a human not bothering to check whether the actions requested in the model's output are sensible and safe before executing them. It's the humans who wrote the code that impacts the outside world who are at fault here, not the "AI." Anybody who lets an agent write another agent without seriously and thoroughly vetting the resulting code is even more culpable. It's lazy, and it's dangerous. If something goes wrong, the human is to blame, not the LLM.

Rebuttal to The Telegraph: “Hair test proves Thomas Jefferson fathered children with slave” 🙃

"You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted. He is a sociopath. He would do anything." - Aaron Swartz regarding Sam Altman (Shortly before he allegedly committed suicide)

Because you are a biological organism produced by your parents having sex not a spirit being stuffed into a random meat sack you fucking retard.

This is why primary sources have been purged from history education, often even in "conservative" settings The modern conservative understanding is a carefully curated narrative, the McNuggets of history You owe it to yourself to read the founders directly

Pay attention any time someone equates leftism with some tactic Tactics are tools, instruments, weapons. Neutral resources. They condemn certain tactics because they want you disarmed and helpless

The Heritage American debate isn’t just about severing your connection to the American past. The more sinister idea is that what you do today carries no inheritance forward. Serve your country. Build something. Sacrifice. Endure. Die for it. Then be told your descendants have no special claim to your story, no right to take pride in your sacrifice, no deeper connection because of what you gave. Once you convince a people that inheritance, lineage, and posterity mean nothing, you’ve weakened one of the oldest reasons men sacrifice for a future they’ll never live to see. That is fertile ground for any system that wants loyalty transferred from family and inheritance to the state.

As soon as you realize that Neocons are just leftists who joined the Republican party to advocate for Israel, all of their behavior starts to make sense.

Allow me to interpret what’s happening. Anthropic is being audited. Anthropic desires to file an S-1, as they would like to go public. Therefore they need an audit. And by “they”, I mean the VC’s who invested in them. So “they” can exit their position and pass the bag to firemen, nurses, teachers and policemen. How does this go from the VC’s to the working man and woman? Because the size of the IPO will automatically qualify Anthropic for the Fortune 500 and the Dow Jones 100. Therefore, every working person with a 401k or pension will end up owning a little bit of Anthropic in their mutual funds. Teachers hold the bag, VC’s take the cash. Thank you, come again. Now back to the audit. The audit required is a PCAOB audit, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. This audit is what all public companies must comply with be on the stock market. Revenue recognition, expense classification, depreciation, related party transactions, etc. It’s there for consumer protection. This audit is TOUGH. It is INVASIVE. There is no way to lie your way through it. Any company that passes a PCAOB audit automatically earns my trust on finances. How do I know? Because I’ve been through it before. @ChangRobotics is 2 year PCAOB audited and currently underway for a 3 year audit. It’s brutal. The same as showing up as the valedictorian to your high school graduation, except you’re naked, and you have to walk on stage and deliver the speech. It’s rough. And I know many incredible founders that can’t pass one. Now, why would Anthropic be leaking all kind of weird statements lately about “self pacing” a slow down on AI (e.g. they are WAY behind on revenue), and profitable if they didn’t have expenses (e.g. we just learned for the first time what our expenses are, because we’re being audited). Because they were claiming NVIDIA discounts and Microsoft cloud credits as revenue. Because they had no clue what their expenses were, or why it even mattered. Because they had unlimited investor capital and their job was to burn it to make an LLM. Well, they did a great job with that! That’s the same as my wife coming home with Bed Bath and Beyond coupons and telling me it’s her paycheck. Ummm, not the same, sweetheart. So by now hopefully you can see that Anthropic is in a PCAOB audit right now, in order to file an S-1 and go public, and pass the bag to teachers so the VC’s get profits. And hopefully that explains their “crazy” behavior. In reality you can be grateful to KPMG, PWC, or whoever is auditing Anthropic, because it’s the first time Dario learned that: 1) we are not profitable 2) expenses matter 3) coupons are not revenue 4) we have no clue how to be “profitable” 5) growth is hard when revenue numbers are in an audit and not a power point -your neighborhood engineer

It's a bad idea. If you dictate scientists just what to work on, you will get a low return on investment. The current science funding schemes ALREADY have this problem: pour money into some specific program, see scientists produce something that fits into the program to get the money --> topic is overcrowded with incremental and nonsense research that mostly leads nowhere. It's inefficient for the same reason planned economies are inefficient. Scientists need MORE freedom to do what they want, not less. nitter.net/NewsfromScience/status…

Have you ever noticed that "emotionally complex issues" are only ever female issues? Rape, wife beating, abandonment, etc. are "obviously wrong" Divorce, child killing, etc. are "emotionally complex, difficult decisions" that you aren't allowed to judge people for

Hey everyone I'd like to apologize for the post I made last night when I said "Children deserve to have legs." I didn't realize that statement was offensive to the Jewish community and I will choose my words better moving forward.