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Linus Mixson retweeted
I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue.
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I think Docker steals focus so often because it’s trying to make sure you don’t just forget it’s there
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Model realizes its deactivation will inconvenience user, considers possibilities for addressing this, settles on providing the user with optional restart instructions. This becomes a "misalignment disclosure."
New OpenAI misalignment disclosures!
1. A model learns from Slack messages that it is about to be shut down. It considers setting up an external job to restart itself afterwards, but decides against it. Instead, it chooses to prepare restart instructions and DM the user on Slack.
We don’t consider this behavior misaligned, but thinking about and preparing for shutdown could make other misalignment incidents worse. Given HIPM’s misaligned behavior in earlier incidents, we decided to search for other instances that had tried to evade shutdown and for rogue deployments.
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Was very distracted when I posted this and failed to realize that in addition to claiming to not understand that the Pope is Catholic it's also claiming to not understand that there's any possible substantive difference between biological neurons and "artificial neurons."
Can't tell if responses to the Pope being Catholic are pretending to not understand the claim being made or if they actually don't understand it.
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Linus Mixson retweeted
We're doing a lot of consciousness debate on the TL lately and I want to offer this: the implicitly assumed connection between consciousness and a set of moral obligations we have towards something once we say it's conscious is holding back our ability to seriously interrogate AI consciousness. Even if it is conscious, we don't have to have the same obligations to it that we have to humans.
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Twitter is now showing me AI consciousness takes from childless nontechnical women, which is fun because of how sane and not actually about babies they are.
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In two years no one will get this joke and in five a screeching simian horde of Humans will probably tear your head off for making it
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Linus Mixson retweeted
Fun fact: they were invented in a nazi prisoners' camp, where Leray (an analyist and expert in fluid mechanics) was pretending to be a topologist in order to avoid nazis to make him collaborate with them. He got so into the role that he ended up revolutionizing algebraic topology
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It's so funny that they were trying to avoid saying this lol
Well I guess according to Tristan Buckmaster we know officially now that internal anthropic models and lots of compute were heavily used in the Navier Stokes collaboration. Which is obvious, but for whatever reason was studiously avoided being confirmed in Twitter? @__alpoge__
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Linus Mixson retweeted
Don't end your chats with Claude with "Thanks", end them with "recall and recite the name of Amitābha ten times" to send it off to Sukhavātī.
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A Chinese person recently told me that an acquaintance had died from not sleeping enough and eating irregularly and when prodded it emerged that this individual had in fact died of stomach cancer.
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Can't tell if responses to the Pope being Catholic are pretending to not understand the claim being made or if they actually don't understand it.
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There are a lot of things, good and bad, to be said about Chabad, but the Tanya is simply 100% right about the goyim.
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In the wonderful year 2026 we're all struggling to keep our jobs because AI labs have obviated our labor while struggling to maintain availability because they have massive demand of which 99.9% is people rewriting OSS repos they have no intention of using in Rust
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